Sample · one voice dominates · 6 participants · 45 minutes
One voice carried 45% of this meeting, and two people went quiet well before the end.
Speaking time
Speaking time concentrated in one voice, about 45% of the room's total.
Turn-taking over the meeting
The first half was a real back-and-forth; the second half was mostly one voice.
Each lane is one participant, kept anonymous. A bar is a stretch of holding the floor, drawn taller and bolder for longer stretches. Blank space is silence, and a dashed trail marks a voice that went quiet before the end.
Why this matters
Research on group intelligence finds that teams which share speaking time are, on average, collectively smarter than teams dominated by a few voices. A meeting where the room stays a real back-and-forth tends to make better decisions than one that becomes a monologue.
Woolley et al., 2010, Science.
One thing to try
Try a closing round next time. Before the meeting wraps, go around the room for one last thought from each person. It gives the voices that went quiet a clear way back in, without putting anyone on the spot.