...A Co-Worker Talks Too Much During Meetings
Ilise Benun
Lesson Info
19. ...A Co-Worker Talks Too Much During Meetings
Lessons
Class Introduction
04:20 2...Others Need to Know What You’ve Accomplished
03:00 3...Someone Else Is Getting the Credit for Your Work
01:55 4...Your Boss Is Micromanaging Your Work
02:23 5...You’re Getting Too Much Work
02:15 6...It's Time for Your Annual Review
02:19 7...Your Project Has Missed Its Deadline
02:49 8...Your Boss Is Getting Too Personal
01:59...Co-Workers Are Distracting You from Your Work
02:17 10...Dealing with Co-Workers That Ask Too Many Favors
02:09 11...The Client Doesn’t like Your Work
01:37 12...Your Manager Doesn’t Totally Understand Your Work
01:57 13...There Is a Miscommunication
01:55 14...You Make a Mistake
02:12 15...A Client or Co-Worker Doesn’t Follow Through
02:08 16...You Won't Make Your Deadline
01:57 17...You’re Getting Mixed Messages
02:16 18...Dealing with Unresponsive Colleagues
02:19 19...A Co-Worker Talks Too Much During Meetings
01:50 20...You Think You Deserve a Raise
02:10 21...Networking with Strangers or VIPs
02:31 22...A Meeting Goes off Track
01:49 23...You Need to Leave a Meeting Before It Ends
01:23 24...You Arrive Late to a Meeting
01:33 25Conclusion
03:40Lesson Info
...A Co-Worker Talks Too Much During Meetings
What to say when a coworker talks too much at a meeting and no one reigns him or her in. So here's the situation. At your weekly meeting, a coworker always has a comment for everything, even if the topic doesn't relate to him or his work. Your boss never says anything to him though, so every week he drones on and on and the group often doesn't get through the agenda. What can you do here? Here's what you may be thinking and what not to say. What a jerk. Do I really need to be at this meeting? Here's a solution. Don't focus on the coworker. Instead, focus on making the meetings more productive. Here's what you could say, with curiosity. Are you aware that the meetings go on longer than necessary? Maybe it would help to have an agenda or some kind of structure or time limit for comments at our weekly meetings. Or with generosity, I have some ideas about how to improve our meetings and make them more effective, maybe even shorter. Who should I share those with? Or humility, I could be wro...
ng, but I think there are some changes we can make to our meetings that would make them more efficient. And maybe humor here. Am I the only one getting a little sleepy at our meetings lately? The overarching idea is that there may not be a lot you can do here, or your efforts may not have an immediate effect, but try to make someone in authority aware of the problem and suggest overall improvements to meetings that would solve this problem without calling attention to any particular person. Make sense?
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Love the format of this course - it was so great to be able to select a specific situation, and then quickly learn a couple of approaches to each one.
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