Do you have any coworkers that you consider rude? Why do you consider him or her rude?

2 MsB, what a funny coincidence! I find you can pretty much say anything you need to in a business setting as long as you choose your words carefully to not embarrass the target and say it with a smile. If you need their input, you don't want to shut them up altogether (like you could...) but you do need to get control back!

3 I just thought of something else I used to do (I'm retired now). While she was talking, I'd look at someone else at the conference table and jokingly but loudly say, "Where did I lose control of my meeting? " Everyone else would laugh and she'd have to stop talking!

I don't remember ever taking her aside and privately asking her to stop that behavior at my meetings, but that might work too.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.