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What should you do when someone dominates a conversation?
a conversation where somebody is dominating it but you still want to leave it on good terms and you don't want to offend everybody is thanking them. Just simply thanking them. Thank you for telling me that. Thank you for sharing that with me. It is an indication when you say thank you that it is over.
Most of the time when you say hey thank you so much for sharing that with me it's kind of a reprieve and a stop and then you can get out of the conversation if you need to. It allows you to kind of have an out. So when you say thank you to somebody, it's like getting a gift as if you're telling them that the whole conversation they just had with you was a gift in some way.
So they gave it to you and you're saying, hey, thank you so much for telling me that. Thank you for sharing that with me. And now you can kind of transition to, look, I need to get going. I have X, Y, and Z. Another thing to do with a boss, again, it just depends on the scope, time limit. Like I said in number three here on this episode, time limit is your friend. And
If you can put the time limit and associate it with something you have to do, like some work that you have to get done, an email that you need to get out, a project that you have on, they can't really complain about it. Because here you're saying, hey, look, I know I'm interrupting you. I have about five more minutes than that.
I need to get back to X, Y, and Z so I can make sure I finish this today. Yeah. finish the report like you wanted, get that done, meet your expectations. When you can tie it to something with work, they're not going to complain about it.
And if anything, it's going to give you a little bit of some space and the people around you so that the other person isn't controlling the entirety of the conversation. So hopefully that doesn't happen too often with you. And I know that those little tips right there, they are going to help you, Elise. I really appreciate your question.
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