In most meetings, a few people talk constantly while others stay quiet. The speaker explains why: some people think out loud, others need time to process. A simple fix: in follow-up meetings, ask the quiet people first.
If you look at a meeting, like the tenor of any meeting, there's different personalities in a meeting. There are people who think out loud, and there are people who ruminate. They sit there quietly the whole meeting. And if you take a dozen people or 10 people in a meeting, there's going to be 3 or 4 that do all the talking. There'll be a couple people that talk a little bit, and there'll be a few people, probably 3 or 4— it's probably going to be a bell curve, you know— who do no talking. You can't go at the end of the meeting to the quiet people and say, so what do you think? Right. Because it's all been done already, and it's unfair, and now they feel like and are treated like the afterthought, right? So what I've started doing— and plus they're ruminators, they need to think. The think-out-louders are doing their thinking in the room. The ruminators need a day sometimes. So what I do is when we reconvene the following week, I start the meeting with the ruminators.
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