Instead of allowing this to go on, Shannon suggests three approaches to quickly putting the meeting back on track. What are some other ways to be ‘ruthless’ in the meeting room? My personal inclination is to cut people off after they have repeated themselves for the third time. Especially when the repetitions involve something wholly irrelevant, or even worse just discovered to be irrelevant, to the meeting’s purpose. As a rule, though, people tend to like their iterations. It makes them feel like they have accomplished something when they say the same things over and over again. Taking away that feeling of accomplishment will not make you popular. Three effective ways to anger people in meetings – [TechRepublic]
