#over-talking

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Why do people over-talk, and what's the cost?

I am sure you have interacted with people who talk for the sake of talking. They cannot tolerate silence, and they have little interest in listening to others. They simply have this need to talk. It’s like an addiction and has probably become more common in a world where people are exposed to constant barrages of information, if it is even that. Have you ever thought about the fact that we…

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How to manage over-talkers

How to manage over-talkers

How often do you get caught up in a conversation or meeting where one person simply will not stop talking. I can think of many times when someone has completed what they wanted to say, and then continued on for what always seems to be an eternity, with redundant verbiage. Face to face it is relatively easy to escape from. (Sorry, I meant ‘manage’.) All you have to do perhaps is to check your…

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Check your ‘word salad’ index I have been watching closely the progress of the Camp Fire in northern California. It is a part of the world where my kids grew up, so I know it very very well, and Chico is where my son and his young family currently live.

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Stop talking and help me listen ... please!

Stop talking and help me listen … please!

Do you work with someone like this?

An ‘over-talker’?

It may be a colleague, your manager, a salesperson you have to deal with, or a supplier.

They take 32 words to say what could be said in 8 … and they rarely leave time for you to respond.

Tell me what you are feeling in those situations.

I know for me, it is utter frustration, as well as having a sense that I am not perceived as having…

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Don’t over-talk and state the obvious When you state something that the other person is already aware of, you are in a way demeaning them.