Colleagues that won’t shut up in work meetings

I think there's a different between people who speaking frequently to suggest positive ideas/solutions or have expertise or experience.

The people who talk for the sake of talking or like to have the last word or waffle on with a stream of gabbled thought are different.

I don't have an issue with the first group.

The second group are badly managed by the chair.

"John, we've heard from you already so I want to invite other opinions/voice"

"Jane, that's outside the scope of this meeting but I'll talk to you about it later if you wish"

Or my personal favourite, give the dominant waffles more work.

"Worth considering Dave, can you draft me a 2 page document with a full cost benefit analysis and the pros & cons". This type usually never produce anything & are more considerate of their future contributions or stop the waffle. Never takes longer than 3 times for to work.

Others their manager needs to raise it in their 1:1 about communication style and opportunities for others. Ie. one well thoughtout point better than many incompete views

Meetings going on forever, side tangents, multiple conversations at once.

That's down to the chair, or whoever is supposed to be leading the meeting or session, to shut down side chats and insist on sticking to the point and all remarks being addressed to the chair.

Yes there's always one. Same when you attend a training session or some sort of event - there's always the one who wants to make themselves sound more clever than everyone else.

There’s one in my team who is indeed a man but he’s under 30. He’s not an unpleasant person but having observed his behaviour I think he’s just an attention seeker. The only person in the team who insists on sharing his holiday photos and even told us which specific bits of gym equipment he likes using

Who is chairing these meetings?

In my experience it is NOTHING to do with age or gender, just that the person is gobby and has opinions that "need" to be made (however irrelevant to the subject being discussed in the meeting).☹️

Been there, endured that.... glad I no-longer have to bother.

I despise people like this. My last workplace was FULL OF THEM. Meetings going on forever, side tangents, multiple conversations at once. Hated the lot of them. Which made it even worse to listen to them go on, and on, and on, and on. One woman, bored on with endless tales about all sorts of crap. And talked AT people, and OVER them. Ugh. So glad I don't have to listen to them anymore. Kissing ASS.

Vent over.

This is down to a poor chair. You should agree a meetings code of conduct otherwise you will end up with half the group sitting in silence whilst everyone else solves their operational issues.

No I have women and men of all ages in my team who do it. Tell your manager this chap needs telling to pipe down.