Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. This step requires the sender to know their audience and convey their message clearly and concisely to support understanding. L ANGUAGE matters. Does what they say induce fear? Excitement?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2013

Audiences can sense when leaders are trying to control the situation and warrant a specific, robotic response. When listeners feel like objects of a conversation rather than participants, they become defensive, put up barriers, and sometimes even ignore what we say, for good reason. Learn to Listen. Assume positive intent.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The challenge is knowing which ones to listen to—to which should I pay attention or seek out? Everyone who wants to be successful listens to their target audience. Voices matter! Here are a few that will compete for your attention: The Client’s Voice. What do they want? What do they need to be effective? Should you provide it?

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 16, 2021

And we assume, like the audience of a cooking show, that we should be able to snap our fingers and make something perfect appear. One active listening tool I use is to summarize and repeat back to people what they’ve said.” ” – Skip Prichard.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

The ability to present security information to direct reports or during a board meeting at a level understood by the audience is of vital importance to the overall risk management to the business. Actively listens while proactively accepting critique from subordinates, executives and board members.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 25, 2019

Therefore, be honest with yourself how true this is for you, and give yourself a break in understanding that focused and active listening requires discipline. I have so much to do I have to multitask” can be heard spoken from the audience. We want to tell others what we think, what we did, and what we know. Judging others.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 4, 2020

Hiding behind your slides is a good way to lose the respect of an audience. Take the audience on a journey. Practice active listening. The best speakers are always the best listeners. By slowing down, you can take your audience with you. Staying grounded signals to your audience that you’re not a pushover.

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LDRLB

MARCH 15, 2013

Excellent speaking skills, active listening and assertiveness are required skills for leaders. In addition to interpersonal communication, leaders need the ability to read an audience or situation and craft the appropriate response. Can you effectively read an audience and communicate your ideas?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you want to attract and retain your target audience, you need to focus on your customer service capabilities. Be an active listener. With them by your side, you will be able to circumvent the challenges of expanding your workspace and ultimately build an area that is optimized, safe and suited specifically to your needs.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

So did the audience. Peals of laughter erupted from the audience, followed by grateful applause. This requires active listening, partnership, and quick thinking. They stopped cold. Silence ensued. Picture me: jaw dropped, eyes wide and glued to the stage. ” That was it! What did the actor do right?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.” They could focus solely on a chapter of special interest such as “Lead Yourself First,” “Show Your Human Side,” or “Be Respectfully Authentic.”

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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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Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.” They could focus solely on a chapter of special interest such as “Lead Yourself First,” “Show Your Human Side,” or “Be Respectfully Authentic.”

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 16, 2013

Of ensuring that we actively listen to what those around us are saying, and sometimes what they’re not saying. At this point, Liz polled the audience to ask what they thought these two characters must have been feeling at this moment.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Active Listening Being a good listener is crucial to communication. Active listening while communicating provides a firm ground to build your response on, while also letting the other person feel heard and understood.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.” They could focus solely on a chapter of special interest such as “Lead Yourself First,” “Show Your Human Side,” or “Be Respectfully Authentic.”

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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). Beginnings and endings: They say in any speech, the audience always remembers the beginning and end.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

They could read a spread with one of our proven methodologies to know how to better communicate change or learn “8 steps to active listening.” They could focus solely on a chapter of special interest such as “Lead Yourself First,” “Show Your Human Side,” or “Be Respectfully Authentic.”

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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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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2014

DMS : At BIF, you performed before an audience of over 400 people with two musicians you’d barely met before. And that’s in the eye of the customer/audience. As work moves from executing scripts to interactive conversations, the need for active listening and presence in the moment is increasing.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Since the release of my first book last fall, I’ve been on an incredible journey speaking to organizations and audiences in Europe, the Middle East, Canada, and the US, sharing my insights on leadership and how leaders can encourage and support their employees to bring their full selves to the work they do.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

If we look at those examples of successful leadership – whether it be leaders we worked under or those we admire from afar – a common behaviour we see shared among them is how they were active listeners. It didn’t matter what position you held or what role you played as they had this way of making us feel important.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses active listening skills to understand others’ perspectives. Adapts communication style to fit the needs of different audiences. By recognizing and rewarding these strengths, employers can create a diverse and dynamic team. Effectively communicates with both internal and external stakeholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

What makes a story good enough to captivate and motivate your audience? The best stories are designed to get the audience to care. The best stories empower and motivate audiences. Brands that actively listen to social networks and respond with real-time content have exploded in popularity recently. million fans.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2014

She recently received 360-degree feedback from colleagues that she needed to improve her listening skills. This confused her — she had always thought of herself as an active listener. What excites you about the topic or audience? To fully listen, you must first believe it is a critical part of your job.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

And although companies may think that people who “like” or follow them on social media are an attentive audience, our research suggests otherwise. Instead, companies must actively listen to what their customers are saying and respond accordingly. If they made mistakes, they must own up to them and take responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Empathy is the foundation of inclusive design in that when we understand human motivations on a universal scale, we design for a broader, more diverse audience. For NASCAR, bringing these events to a wide audience is key to increasing the sport’s fan base. ” Read More from Microsoft. This isn’t always easy.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 1, 2009

Reply Chuck Musciano June 2, 2009 at 12:36 pm While I’ll be a bit cynical and agree with Wally that the CEO could just be leveraging his short-term memory to connect with the audience, the main thrust of your post is absolutely correct. Taking time to listen and retain things makes a difference. How about you?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

But the continued success of such a seemingly risky move shows that the WWE Network was backed by two decades of watching their audience do things like trade tapes of old matches (and, later, posting video online). Don’t forget that seeing isn’t observing, and hearing isn’t listening.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Every executive has to be a listener. Chief executives at cutting edge companies actively listen to social media commentary—in real time each day, not through a sanitized monthly summary report from the marketing department. Senior managers across all departments likewise have to get their hands dirty.

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