You do not have to wait for the end of a conversation to make sure you and your conversation partner understand each other. You can check for understanding throughout the conversation to make sure that things are on track by using some of the following questions or statements.

• What do you think about what I just said?
• Let us summarize what we have covered so far.
• Please tell me what you are thinking.
• Does that make sense?
• If you were going to share this with the team, what would you say?
• What is not making sense here?