Who Has Been Speaking?(maxwellforbes.com)
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Who Has Been Speaking?
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Please, please don't.
I've worked for enough corporate companies to know the end result of such a feature: metrics about how communicative you are in team meetings, goals set around that metric, and inevitably people babbling on meetings just to have their percentage match whatever's required to check the box for a promotion/bonus.
If someone talks too much, just tell them to shut up (softly and in business speak).
I've worked for enough corporate companies to know the end result of such a feature: metrics about how communicative you are in team meetings, goals set around that metric, and inevitably people babbling on meetings just to have their percentage match whatever's required to check the box for a promotion/bonus.
If someone talks too much, just tell them to shut up (softly and in business speak).
If a team uses those metrics, easy identifier that you don't want to work with them anyhow.
In my experience, lack of meeting facilitation skills is widespread and one of the things that leads to these kinds of inefficient meetings where people are able to derail them from whatever the objective was.
It's a very valuable soft skill which can really help people raise their profile, especially in larger organisations.
It's a very valuable soft skill which can really help people raise their profile, especially in larger organisations.
Jitsi does this. Menu -> speaker stats.
Dialpad (https://www.dialpad.com/) has this feature. Not as a pie chart (last I checked), but at the end of a call, they'll show you a summary of the call with the speaking time of each participant.
This startup does this: https://www.read.ai/
Gong.io does this if you invite it to your meeting
At my work its always the same guy babbling about his past and imaginary current accomplishments, taking precious meeting time (and often leaving the meeting for other meetings after talking non stop for 30 mins, so he never really participates in any discussions).
Having this would make my life so much easier.
Edit: if any Microsoft devs are reading this and shaking their heads: I would settle for chessclock.