Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 3, 2008

You can improve your ability to lead effectively by learning the six skills for active listening. CCL's Michael Hoppe recently authored the guidebook Active Listening to make CCL's approach to active listening more explicit and available to a broad audience. Active listening requires an open mind.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 3, 2017

Practical interpersonal and communication skills such as active listening, giving feedback and asking good questions are all important elements of good coaching. These wonderful men and women have the courage to trust their minds to tell them what is true without immediate proof or evidence.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2010

Use active listening, open-ended questions, body language, and eliminate distractions that get in the way of my ability to listen. Learn to step back from the day-to-day tactical details of my business and focus on the “why”, not just the “what” and “how”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 31, 2017

Be a better listener. I’ll use active listening, open-ended questions, body language, and eliminate distractions that get in the way of my ability to listen. I’ll learn to speak the “language” of strategy and apply these concepts to leading my organization. Become a better negotiator.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 21, 2014

Instead, the aim should be to influence—and often activate—listeners. Guest post from Gary Genard: Perhaps the biggest public speaking mistake emerging leaders make is to focus on delivering information. But a leader never gives a speech to convey content. Your purpose, then, needs to inform all of your other choices when you speak.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Learn and practice active listening. If I had to pick just ONE skill, listening would be the one I’d say is the most important skill to master as a leader. Let go of the details. Focus on the what, not the how.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 7, 2011

They can only actively listen for a limited period of time before their minds begin to wander. In any program, participants should be spending at least 50% of their time “doing” something (other than listening). When all eyes are focused and multiple hands are in the air, you know you’re in a zone.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 9, 2018

One of the most important skills for any manager is listening. Listening demonstrates respect, concern, an openness to new ideas, empathy, compassion, curiosity, trust, loyalty, and receptivity to feedback – all considered to be qualities of an effective leader. Listening isn’t rocket science.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Examples of essential behaviors include: active listening, using power questions, knowing how to design and engage in courageous conversations and making use of systemic-accountability. Do you know which essential behaviors will give you the biggest return on your investment of time, energy and supervisory development?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Instead of jumping right to problem solving, a better approach is to use active listening skills to deal with the emotions first. Active listening means paraphrasing, asking questions, and seeking to understand both what the person is saying (the substance) and how they are feeling (the emotion).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2016

Practice in-the-moment, don’t get distracted by shiny objects, focused active listening. That’s right, let it go! Just be sure to provide appropriate support and coaching to your delegee (new made-up word). It’s called “leadership presence”, and it’s the single most important thing you can do as a leader.

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