Quick tips

• Say what you need. "Let me finish this point" is short, polite and hard to argue with.
• Use facts, not labels. "Four meetings in a row" works better than "you always".
• Make it easy to say yes. Offer a time box or two options: "thirty seconds now, or ten minutes tomorrow".
• Link the idea back. "It's the idea I raised earlier" restores credit without accusing anyone.
• Be the ally. "I'd like to hear the end of that" plus the person's name hands the floor straight back.