Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic? How to Handle Meeting Killers. Chapter 5, The Rambler. Here we go. The Well, we've done a number of casts so far on addressing behaviors and

meetings that reduce meeting effectiveness and this was based on a 2012 Wall Street Journal article.

We've got into some detail.

So without further ado, one of the ones that just drive people crazy is the

rambler, the person that talks and talks and talks and talks and

and effective meeting this go a meeting effectiveness just goes to the toilet so

so tell me Mark what are we gonna do about that yeah first of all let's agree that

one of the biggest violence one of the biggest problems with this is the meeting

leader who talks and talks and talks and talks but that's not what this gas is about.

That's different different conversation.

Yeah, we encourage you to be self-regulating their gentlemen and ladies.

But this is about if you're if you're running a meeting.

What do you do when you've got somebody who rambles who just goes off on tangents?

And in fact the journal article says this is the toughest one to handle.

I actually disagree.

I think what they were saying is they're the toughest to handle

without ground rules, without agendas and so on.

And I believe they're the toughest because they're the most frequent

And I believe partially they're the most frequent because

managers don't do the things before meetings like ground rules, like agendas,

which reduce the chances for somebody to do this, and then in the meeting don't actually

insist on following the ground rules and following the agenda.

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