How to curb your inner Donald Trump
Donald Trump may be a caricature-like and extreme example of someone who can’t help but steal centre stage, but such people lurk everywhere. We have all worked on a team or sat in a room where someone dominated the conversation to such an extent everyone else started to fade into the background. Maybe you are that someone, holding the room hostage while you wax poetic.
How to tell if you are a scene-stealer
If you have an effusive, dominant personality you probably know it. It showed up in your grade-school report card (“Janet needs to learn to talk less and listen more”) and likely still appears on your performance review. If you aren’t sure, or you aren’t sure how bad it is, pay attention to how much airtime you take relative to others.
The upside with being a scene-stealer