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Active Listening: the Key to Leadership Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Today, the key step for being a true leader is active listening. Active listening is the act of repeating back, in your own words, what you believe was said. Active listening and fluid communication takes time and cannot be accomplished overnight. This is leadership!

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3 Ways to Lead Like Lincoln

Michael Lee Stallard

It’s fashionable in the media and politics today to be quick to speak, to dominate conversations and be self-righteous. Sometimes we are so anxious to voice the next thing we want to say that we stop actively listening and that is disconnecting behavior too. We see this frequently in movies and television shows too.

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5 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

Leaders simply don’t have the luxury of choosing their words in cavalier fashion. While it would be easy to include discussions on focus, clarity, consistency, active listening, brevity, picking your battles and a number of the other traits possessed by good communicators, this piece is about vocabulary.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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How Do You Show Up As A Leader In Your Organization?

Tanveer Naseer

Of ensuring that we actively listen to what those around us are saying, and sometimes what they’re not saying. That it makes us feel like we’re contributing in a meaningful fashion; that we’re making a difference. As leaders, what are you doing to understand what really matters to your employees?

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Emotional Intelligence Can Improve Communication Between Generations in the Workplace

The Center For Leadership Studies

In similar fashion, personality assessments like DiSC ® and MBTI ® have also proven to be generation neutral. Be curious and open, using active listening and Empathy to engage their Social Responsibility, Reality Testing and Optimism, along with the Situational Leadership ® Model (Step 1!),

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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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