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How To Interrupt Without Being Disrespectful

  • Work cultures often encourage healthy debates and disagreements, so it is important to be aware of your company's existing culture.
  • Do not get hung up on something normal for others.
  • Before you interrupt, simply asking if you can interrupt what the other person is saying, can work wonders.

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Handling Interruption: Maintain Your Composure

In case of serial interruptions, it can be difficult to keep your composure, but do not get rattled. If a peer is interrupting you continuously, try to focus on your message and resume talking after taking a deep breath.

If things start to become awkward, reach out to the person after the m...

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Responding To Interruptions: Check Your Status

Responding To Interruptions: Check Your Status

In a corporate setting, every meeting can be a competition for resources, recognition or rewards.

If a senior interrupts you, it would not be counted against you, but it is a peer who has interrupted you to dominate and boost their own presence, it can negatively impact your status.

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Handling The Interruption: Listen And Respond

  • Understand why your peer has interrupted you, and it has a different agenda, like changing the topic or to get you to stop, you can make direct eye contact with the interrupter and speak up.
  • You can say you need to finish your point on this important topic so that everyone is informe...

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The Way We Should Interrupt

  • How we interrupt matters and using the word ‘but’ is often the problem. Our brains only take a fraction of a second to process the meaning of a word and be offended by a wrongly perceived one.
  • Use the word ‘and’ or say that you would like to...

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