> Know your audience

This point is something that I notice in a lot of meetings. Some of the engineers I work with are long winded and tend to over-explain concepts/issues to non-engineering folks. I try to send a direct message during the meeting (now and then) to try and reel them in a little by explaining that the non-engineering folks don’t need those details and that a what they are really asking for is a summary of the key points of the concept/issue under discussion, but it’s not always well received.