Masterful Listening

By Phil Stella | Published: April 2, 2014

Some masterful Listening Tips from ‘Communicate or Die’:

  • ‘Listen without a point of view. Avoid immediate free-association to your own experience put your tendency to evaluate on hold.

  • Listen and mentally re-create exactly what the speaker is saying.
  • See things from the other person’s point of view.
  • Listen for the speaker’s underlying intention.
  • Listen for ‘gold’: hear whatever the person is saying as the solution to the issue being discussed.
  • Listen one minute longer than may be comfortable.
  • Experiment with listening. What results can you produce through listening rather than talking?
  • Remember that your advice is usually noise to their ears. People are not eager for your speaking they are hungry for your listening.’

‘Communicate or Die – Getting Results Through Speaking and Listening’, Thomas D. Zweifel, Ph.D, SelectBooks, Inc., 2003.

 

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