How do you handle your counterparts’ impatience in meetings?
Translated from the French original.
Just yesterday I was on Zoom with a friend of my son’s, a 28-year-old Chief of Staff.
The conversation was moving fast, very fast.
I followed his gaze throughout the exchange.
I could feel that my words were competing with whatever he was exploring on his screen.
I could feel how compact I had to keep my points for him to stay fully attentive.
How constantly I had to keep the discussion going back and forth so that he too could develop his ideas.
What about you?
How do you take your counterparts’ impatience into account?
