Talking the talk

One of the many feedback I had got in the past on how I could improve was on being more concise. I have a tendency to belabor on a point even though the listener has already got the point. For many a listeners, this comes across as I being either unprepared, unorganized or inarticulate.

To work on this weakness, I am planning on two action items. Firstly, I plan to read a lot. I feel reading a diverse set of book will help my vocabulary and help me get the right words that I need to use in my conversations. Secondly, I plan to summarize every book or article that I read with the key takeaways that I got. this would force me to summarize in a short paragraph what a book of hundreds of pages had to say. This practice should help me be more concise. Whether these actions will help me remains to be seen.