Listening - a key leadership capacity in times of disruption | International Gender Champions
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Listening - a key leadership capacity in times of disruption | International Gender Champions
Listening is a leadership skill that has to be developed. It is about respecting others and yourself enough so that you can put yourself, your company, your family, in position to win.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
The best leaders are great listeners. They listen carefully to what other people have to say, how they feel, and what they want, value, and dream about.
James M. Kouzes • The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations (J-B Leadership Challenge: Kouzes/Posner)
For example, he posits that active listening and emotional intelligence are inextricably linked. “You know, we think about what we want to say, and we don’t really listen to the other person. We cut them off. We interrupt,” he says. Now consider how poor listening might manifest in technology meeting spaces, trying to meet a deadline while facing a
... See moreDonna Wiggs • Daniel Goleman: Why Emotional Intelligence May Be the Number One Indicator of Organizational Success
An exquisite listener is someone who becomes consumed by the listening process. They shut out all distractions and have a laser-like focus on what the person is saying with a deep curiosity about the feelings, values, goals and internal conflicts the client is trying to convey. And, oftentimes, this level of listening facilitates a process of disco... See more
Wisdom Round-Up: What Prospects Actually Want, Psychology of Spending, and Improving Implementation
Being a good listener is one of the most important and enchanting life skills anyone can have. Yet few of us know how to do it, not because we are evil but because no one has taught us how and – a related point – few have listened sufficiently well to us. So we come to social life greedy to speak rather than listen, hungry to meet others but reluct
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Documentary filmmaker Valarie Kaur on listening:
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear.
When I really want to hear another person’s story, I try to leave my preconceptions at the door and draw close to their telling. I am always partially listening to the thoughts in my own head when others are speaking, so I c... See more
“Deep listening is an act of surrender. We risk being changed by what we hear.
When I really want to hear another person’s story, I try to leave my preconceptions at the door and draw close to their telling. I am always partially listening to the thoughts in my own head when others are speaking, so I c... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: Pushing yourself, listening, and a simple rule for life and work
Listening, I’ve come to understand, is bearing witness to lives unfolding, to lives being discovered. Deep listening, listening compassionately, means guiding, gently nudging, or sometimes shoving people down the path of radical self-inquiry so they can make their way to their own truest selves. Then, and only then, can they lead with the dignity a
... See moreJerry Colonna • Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
“Listening is a basic ingredient of attention, and it can be learned and
practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline
and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing
can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”
― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more
practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline
and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing
can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”
― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more