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Ask for Help
It may be hard to know in the moment if you’re oversharing. A fresh perspective can offer insight. Ask a trusted colleague or advisor to provide insights into how you’re meeting your goal of talking less and listening more.
While it’s important to share your point of view, it’s critical to know when and how. Experiment with some or all of these tactics to make sure your input is being heard.
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Consider Using Other Ways to Share Your Ideas
If you excel at creativity, you may come alive in a brainstorming session and quickly generate a wealth of ideas. However, if you tend to ramble when describing those ideas, you could come across as scattered a...
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Pause!
Are you giving your colleagues enough time to digest what you say and to ask questions? If not, give yourself a signal to pause.
By slowing down and taking deliberate pauses, you’ll be able to regulate your impulse to overshare, and your message will have a better chance of landing.
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Use The Tweet Limit: Practice Compressing Your Thoughts
When speaking, make sure that what you’re saying is necessary and impactful. You can even think of your sentences in tweet form: How would I communicate this idea if I were tweeting and facing a character limit? How can I cut my message down to its essence?
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Rambling During Meetings: Key Points
While it’s important to share your point of view in meetings, it’s critical to know when and how. You don’t want to monopolize the conversation. We provide some practical tips for sharing the floor so that you can get your message across more effectively.
- First, take time to reflect a...
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Only One Person Talking: You
If you suspect you may be monopolizing the conversation in meetings, experiment with these tactics to help get your message across.
First, you need to measure exactly how much you’re talking.
While you don’t want to limit your speaking time forever, adhering to the time rule in the be...
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A is for Ask
Ask if there is anything else you can help with.
Ask how you’re doing on a project or with a certain skill.
Ask to be included in a meeting. Ask for more training.
Your superiors won’t know you’re hungry for growth and interested in being more involved unless you ...
Tips To Better Ask For Help
- Demonstrate that you've tried to help yourself. Briefly explain what you've tried independently so they know you've tried to solve your problem for yourself before.
- Demonstrate that you've acted on the person's advice previously so they won’t be weary you might be wasti...
Getting ready for 1:1 conversation
The most productive one-on-ones have some kind of structure, which requires you to do some prep beforehand. Basically, don’t just show up and chat—you’ll lose precious time in rambling conversations.
- Is this time-sensitive? If it’s urgent, don’t wait for your next meet...
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