> The "reframe the conversation to the thing I want to talk about" - man, that one's frustrating. The most effective method I've found is making that person re

> The "reframe the conversation to the thing I want to talk about" - man, that one's frustrating. The most effective method I've found is making that person responsible for resolving whatever the issue is. Not always possible, but especially when it happens in group settings, some verbal judo can work even if you can't "officially" task them. (Make sure to memorialize that in an email afterwards, or it will probably retroactively never have happened.)