Well, one obvious point is that increasing the amount of turn taking, social sensitivity and females in meetup groups would be a positive thing.
It’s worth noting that people don’t always know when they are rambling. In the Seattle meetup group we had at least one person explicitly ask to be told when they’re being unproductive in a conversation.
There was a thread a while back about conversational norms and rules (link). Some people liked these a lot.
I’ve heard that some groups succeed because they have an excellent group moderator who keeps people to the topic at hand and prevents people from dominating the conversation. Not everyone has this skill. Are there easy ways to learn it?
Well, one obvious point is that increasing the amount of turn taking, social sensitivity and females in meetup groups would be a positive thing.
It’s worth noting that people don’t always know when they are rambling. In the Seattle meetup group we had at least one person explicitly ask to be told when they’re being unproductive in a conversation.
There was a thread a while back about conversational norms and rules (link). Some people liked these a lot.
I’ve heard that some groups succeed because they have an excellent group moderator who keeps people to the topic at hand and prevents people from dominating the conversation. Not everyone has this skill. Are there easy ways to learn it?
Are there easy ways to measure it? If so, I would enjoy going to a meetup where we try and get better and moderating.