{"id":21736,"date":"2023-05-12T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/?p=21736"},"modified":"2023-06-11T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T09:10:16","slug":"why-are-you-interrupting-me-what-are-you-telling-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/why-are-you-interrupting-me-what-are-you-telling-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are you interrupting me? What are you telling me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When you get interrupted while speaking the impact is never positive. Dealing with colleagues who don\u2019t listen is both hard and frustrating. What are the reasons people interrupt? What emotions does the person who is interrupted have to deal with ? read on from the diary of an executive who was interrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Listen to me and you will know that I can add value.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tina was to present her ideas for improving packaging, to her colleagues, her manager and to a couple of seniors from other departments. She was well prepared and she was confident that the ideas were very good. She was looking forward to creating an impact. After her current packaging report, she went on to talk about her first idea about new packaging material. She started off on the new material and its advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the idea was even well explained, one of her senior colleagues spoke out unsolicited \u2018Yes this is good but let me add another perspective\u2019 and went on to talk about something not connected to her idea or what she was presenting. After a minute her manager joined the conversation with the colleague and talked about his experience in the past\u2026\u2026and it became a \u2018free flow\u2019 and everyone digressed from the presentation. Everyone half narrated their experiences, opinions and harped about their contributions etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She was just standing there all \u2018foxed\u2019 and \u2018lost\u2019.The meeting was rescheduled for the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tina felt demotivated, unappreciated, worthless, insulted and angry. A lot of emotions, all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other meeting participants were not even aware of what they had just done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tina was on an emotional brink and no one was aware. Back in her cubicle, she was thinking aloud and penning down what she felt in her diary. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you like to be interrupted? No.\u2026 then why do you interrupt others ??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As an executive coach, I believe it is important that we learn the art of listening. It encourages people to think better, improves relationships and has many more advantages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first step is not to interrupt. Admitting that you\u2019re an \u201cinterrupter\u201d is a step in the right direction. You can immediately start with a few pointers mentioned below. Be especially conscious when you are interrupting your juniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you talk you\u2019re only repeating what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something new !<\/p>\nDalai Lama<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you get interrupted while speaking the impact is never positive. Dealing with colleagues who don\u2019t listen is both hard and frustrating. What are the reasons people interrupt? What emotions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21738,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21736\/revisions\/21738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surekhapoddar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The diary of an angry executive who was interrupted !<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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