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Table the unrelated questions, pivot (“let’s jump to abc, I’d like to get more info from you on xyz before we leave”), and keep asking the questions different ways - or even the same question, same way if it’s that egregious - until they do answer. (“Thanks for that. We do have the definition, but I’m looking to dive deeper into x.” <restate question>)
In general, I make sure to start all meetings with a very clear objective and only present what is relevant/what I would like input on - if someone sees a slide, they’re going to want to read it. Anything else goes in the appendix. Go herd those cats! 👊🏼
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This is such an amazing response. Thank you!
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They spent the first thirty minutes of a working session trying to pick holes in my approach which I had already gone over with and gained alignment on from our boss. Once I finally pivoted us to the point of the conversation, they kept responding to questions for detail on specific items with the most basic definitions of certain common components which I have a background in and strong understanding of rather than answering the actual question.