What to do if discussions drag on and become too long?

When you notice people are no longer engaged, you want to consider the following:

• Make sure you break up the work into smaller chunks. This way it’s easier to stay on track of the agenda
  
• Either summarize points yourself or ask others to summarize their stories.
• Work with visual aids, or even better, ask the participants themselves to work with visual aids.
• Referring to the parking lot mentioned above is a solution once the conversation is no longer productive