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Effective Listening and Leadership
Posted 07-09-2011 at 07:33 PM by Jeremy Barker
One way to be very successful leader is to be an effective listener. Listening more than talking is an important way to build relationships and trust within business and within your life in general with a child or a spouse.
Follow and learn these 10 Keys to Effective Listening to jump start your leadership ability.
1) Capitalize on thought speed (stay with the speaker and listen between the lines)
2) Listen for Ideas (Central or overall ideas)
3) Fin an area of interest (Listen for any useful information)
4) Judge content, not delivery (Listen to the entire message before making judgements)
5) Hold your fire (Withhold judgement until comprehesion is complete)
6) Work at listening (Give the speaker your full attention)
7) Resist distractions (Fight distractions and concentrate on the speaker)
8 ) Hear what is said (Listen to both favorable and unfavorable information)
9) Challenge yourself (Treat complex and difficult presentations as excercise for the mind)
10) Use visual aids (Take notes as required and use visual aids to enhance understanding)
A leader listens and a leader listens effectively. Until this is understood there will be no effective leadership.
Source: Derived from N Skinner, “Communication Skills,” Selling Power, July/August 1999, pp 32-34; and G Manning, K Curtis, and S McMillen, Building the Human Side of Work Community (Cincinnati, OH: Thomson Executive Press, 1996), pp 127-54
Follow and learn these 10 Keys to Effective Listening to jump start your leadership ability.
1) Capitalize on thought speed (stay with the speaker and listen between the lines)
2) Listen for Ideas (Central or overall ideas)
3) Fin an area of interest (Listen for any useful information)
4) Judge content, not delivery (Listen to the entire message before making judgements)
5) Hold your fire (Withhold judgement until comprehesion is complete)
6) Work at listening (Give the speaker your full attention)
7) Resist distractions (Fight distractions and concentrate on the speaker)
8 ) Hear what is said (Listen to both favorable and unfavorable information)
9) Challenge yourself (Treat complex and difficult presentations as excercise for the mind)
10) Use visual aids (Take notes as required and use visual aids to enhance understanding)
A leader listens and a leader listens effectively. Until this is understood there will be no effective leadership.
Source: Derived from N Skinner, “Communication Skills,” Selling Power, July/August 1999, pp 32-34; and G Manning, K Curtis, and S McMillen, Building the Human Side of Work Community (Cincinnati, OH: Thomson Executive Press, 1996), pp 127-54
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