How to Control Dominators in Meetings

Meetings often unfold similar to encounters on the playground: Passive and dominating attendees annoy each other and complicate things.

So why not simply let the passive meeting participants fade into the woodwork and let the dominators take over the game board? Several reasons:

Dominators monopolize and prevent other ideas and solutions from surfacing. Dominators often ramble and repeat themselves, creating boredom and impatience among the other group members. The biased opinion of one o...