AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A … Continue reading Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Goulston (2015)
Posts where this video is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A Knowledge Café with eight speakers Conversation Sharpens the Saw It is not a waste of time Conversation Through the Lens of the Johari Window Understanding ourselves … Continue reading Speech Has Allowed Human Beings to Work Together to Build the Impossible Stephen Hawking, 1994
If I can be profoundly interested in what you think and what you will think next and where you will go with your thinking, you will generate ideas and insights and ways forward that you wouldn’t do without this attention. | Nancy Kline Continue reading Being Profoundly Interested in What You Think Nancy Kline
A good listener listens slowly to what is being said. He does not jump ahead nor does he rush to judge nor does he sit there formulating his own reply. He focuses directly on what is being said. He listens to more than is being said. He extracts the maximum information from what he hears by looking between the words used and wondering why … | Edward de Bono Continue reading A Good Listener Listens Slowly to What Is Being Said Edward de Bono
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk. We learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking, and … | Stephen Hawking Continue reading All We Need to Do Is Make Sure We Keep Talking Stephen Hawking
When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling. Try that … | Ernest Hemingway Continue reading When People Talk Listen Completely Ernest Hemingway
And so we need to start talking and listening. And when you talk it doesn’t mean you’re right. It doesn’t mean you’re correct. Right? It means you’re trying to articulate and formulate your thoughts like the boneheaded moron that you are. And you are going to stumble around idiotically because what the hell do you know. You are full of biases, and … | Jordan Peterson Continue reading We Need to Start Talking and Listening Jordan Peterson
I believe we can change the world if we start listening to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, debate, or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each have a chance to speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading I Believe We Can Change the World If We Start Listening to One Another Again Meg Wheatley
Listening to Learn | Jennifer Garvey Berger Posts where this video is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A Knowledge Café with eight speakers Conversation Sharpens the Saw It is not a waste of time Conversation Through the … Continue reading Listening to Learn Jennifer Garvey Berger (2017)
I came across the quotation below from Adam Grant recently on Linkedin. Adam calls all these acts, acts of leadership; I would call them acts of conversational leadership. I think the last act, which I have highlighted in yellow, is especially noteworthy. Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of leadership. How often do we … Continue reading Acts of Conversational Leadership Adam Grant
Who’s listening? A small-scale research project exploring how organisations listen to employees Preface The authors believe listening is critical to improved performance and decision-making within organisations; and is more important than ever given how the nature of work and the workforce is changing, the increased focus on ethical and social purpose as well as the drive to … Continue reading Who’s Listening? Howard Krais, Mike Pounsford and Kevin Ruck (2019)
The true leader in a group is rarely the person who talks the most. It’s usually the person who listens best. Listening is more than hearing what’s said. It’s noticing and surfacing what isn’t said. Inviting dissenting views and amplifying quiet voices are acts of leadership. Credit: Adam Grant Comment: Conversational Leadership is about creating … Continue reading The True Leader in a Group Is Rarely the Person Who Talks the Most Adam Grant
Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly. | Plutarch Continue reading Knowing How to Listen Plutarch
The Great Unheard at Work by Mark Cole and John Higgins makes the case that silence always has something to say – it’s never neutral and speaks volumes if people are willing to hear. Our response to silence is often to dismiss or end it, to block it out with noise. Instead, silence needs to … Continue reading The Great Unheard at Work: Understanding Voice and Silence in Organisations Mark Cole and John Higgins (2023)
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but, I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not really what I meant. | Robert J. McCloskey Continue reading Believing What You Think I Said Robert J. McCloskey
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The … | Pope Francis Continue reading Proselytism Is Solemn Nonsense Pope Francis
I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and to touch another person. When this is done I feel contact has been made. | Virginia Satir Continue reading Being Seen, Heard, Understood and Touched Virginia Satir
Conversational leadership replaces the simplicity of monologue with the unpredictable vitality of dialogue. Conversation is open and fluid rather than closed and directive. To make it work, leaders need to cultivate the art of listening to people at all levels, and speaking with them directly and authentically. | Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Continue reading Conversational Leadership Replaces Monologue with Dialogue Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, 2012
Listening to others’ verbalized experiences stimulates memories, ideas, and experiences in participants. This is also known as the group effect where group members engage in “a kind of ‘chaining’ or ‘cascading’ effect; talk links to, or tumbles out of, the topics and expressions preceding it” | Thomas R. Lindlof and Bryan C. Taylor Continue reading Listening to Others’ Experiences Stimulates Memories and Ideas Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor
I am delighted to tell you that I have an online Knowledge Café in early May. Two good colleagues, Mark Cole, and John Higgins, have recently written the book The Great Unheard at Work: Understanding Voice and Silence in Organizations. The book is quite interesting as it explores the importance of understanding silence in our conversations. It show … Continue reading The Great Unheard Knowledge Café Understanding Voice and Silence in Organizations
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. | Stephen Covey Continue reading Listen with the Intent to Understand Not to Reply Stephen R. Covey
A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. | Paul Simon Continue reading A Man Hears What He Wants to Hear Paul Simon
I want to be listening in a way that is more interested in where you will go next than I am in what I am going to say next. | Nancy Kline Continue reading Listening to See Where You Will Go Next Nancy Kline
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | Winston Churchill Continue reading Courage and Listening Winston Churchill
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AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A … Continue reading The Art of Listening by Erich Fromm (1998)
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A … Continue reading Listening to the Volcano: Conversations That Open Our Minds to New Possibilities by David Hutchens (2005)
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A … Continue reading Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: the Power of Dialogue in Educating Adults by Jane Kathryn Vella
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. Posts where this book is embedded Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information Changing Minds Through Conversation The role of conversation in Derek Black’s transformation Conversation in Hong Kong A … Continue reading Listening: the Forgotten Skill by Madelyn Burley-All
Critical Thinking ** The Art of Navigating Conversations Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Continue reading Active Listening ** Listening attentively to understand and retain communicated information
Active Listening ** Conversational Continuous Self-improvement ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close The success of a conversation largely depends on how we choose to respond during our turn to speak. Our responses can either facilitate a … Continue reading The Art of Navigating Conversations Choosing our repsonses carefully
Speak Up Speak in Plain Language Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Speak last: If you want to genuinely understand others’ opinions, listen to them before expressing your views. If you are a senior manager, your role … Continue reading Speak Last Learn to be the last to speak
The Mind Is a Fire to Be Kindled The Fourth Industrial Revolution Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Do we listen, to confirm what we already think or do we listen in order to reply? Or do … Continue reading Learn to Listen and to Tell the Truth Do we listen, to confirm what we already think or do we listen in order to reply?
Tell the Truth Listen Empathically ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Listen to ignite thinking: We tend to think of listening as a passive act. This is a mistake. Listening is not passive. It’s a powerful … Continue reading Listen to Ignite Thinking Listening is not a passive act – it’s a powerful act of creation
Listen to Ignite Thinking Listen with the Intent to Understand Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. Credit: Stephen R. Covey, … Continue reading Listen Empathically ** Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply
People see themselves as the hero of their own story. This makes it easy to justify actions, even when they harm others. Understanding this can open the door to real conversations instead of endless conflict. Continue reading Everyone Believes They’re the Good Guy The only real way to disarm your enemy is to listen to them
Listen Empathically ** Don’t Discourage Dissent Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Listen with the intent to understand: Don’t listen with the intent to judge or reply. We all appreciate the benefits of listening, such as listening … Continue reading Listen with the Intent to Understand Don’t listen with the intent to reply
It is often suggested that offering rewards is necessary to motivate people, particularly when it comes to sharing their knowledge. However, this strategy is ultimately ineffective and potentially harmful in the long run. Continue reading Punished by Rewards Loving what you do is a more powerful motivator than any goody
Don’t Discourage Dissent Banter with Care Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Don’t give advice: At first thought, the idea that providing personal advice is a bad thing, especially when sought, seems rather strange. It may seem … Continue reading Don’t Give Advice Especially when it is sought
Banter with Care Hold Strong Opinions Weakly ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Stop ditting: Why, in conversation, do we not only listen with the intent to reply but the intent to dit – to trump … Continue reading Stop Ditting Ditting is the dubious art of trumping the previous person’s story