Advice for dealing with long winded co-workers. Some people on my team are talkers and I wish they’d just get to the point

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Just start saying “to summarize...” and wrap their long version into a short succinct version over and over again until they start doing it themselves

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Learn to detach retinas and make internal jokes with self to keep hope alive.

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My bad fam...

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I have said, “that was a lot of words, bulletpoint it for me” the senior manager called me out later, but agreed with the outcome .

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Nothing you can do. I sometimes zone out and then when they summarize I listen up. It’s too distracting. Once had a manager who was like this and you can imagine what a painful experience was this.

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The same people routinely let every meeting go 30 minutes over

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Give constructive feedback and help them to become a better communicator.

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I am a person who can do that (be long winded). If I am doing that regularly with you, a tactful statement of can you summarize that for me? - even just once- usually allows me to get the hint. Maybe twice if I'm I'm not getting the hint. Just say something like that and it doesn't put my defenses up

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Coffee helps.

God I hate that too. I have a hard time hiding it.

I’ve used “less is more” when appropriate

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