Here are some pointers to get you started.

How to Control Sales Conversations

1. Early on in the process, identify and understand the prospect’s major pain points and aspirations.
2. Create an action plan for closing the deal.
3. Go into every sales conversation with a clearly defined plan and goal.
4. Subtly guide the conversation, but don’t simply recite a sales script without alteration.

Raise your awareness about the behaviors that are undermining your personal interactions and eliminate them one by one using these techniques:

1. Be upfront about how you communicate.
2. Commit to the conversation.
3. Practice the pause.
4. Summarize what you heard, and ask questions.
5. Corral your thoughts.
6. Use visual cues.

1. Take a look at the impact of your emotions. Intense emotions aren’t all bad.
2. Aim for regulation, not repression.
3. Identify what you’re feeling.
4. Accept your emotions — all of them.
5. Keep a mood journal.
6. Take a deep breath.
7. Know when to express yourself.
8. Give yourself some space.

“Perhaps they are traumatized, even frightened by confrontation, and the tears are a product of their fear,” he said. While some criers may feel ashamed and weak over their emotional display, “others are healing themselves through tears if they’re supported correctly,” Stout said.

How to Manage a Dominating Personality on Your Team

1. Work on your own self-awareness. Chiming in during meetings comes naturally to talkative, extroverted people.
2. Encourage others to talk.
3. Create boundaries.
4. Politely cut them off and redirect.
5. Confront colleagues privately.
6. Don’t allow interruptions.
7. Other options for managing team dynamics with a dominating personality.

How to deal with people who talk too much.

1. Listen first.
2. Tell her you’re busy.
3. Set up a specific time to talk.
4. If you’re close to the person in question, privately take her aside and explain the issue.
5. Just leave.
6. Conversational narcissism.
7. Short attention span.
8. Poor social skills.

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