“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Winston Churchill
How do you listen as a leader? Have you ever really spent much time as a leader thinking about how you listen? A huge part of your success is determined by how you listen. There is the old adage that you have two ears and one mouth and should use them proportionally. The challenge with that adage for most of us is awareness; we may not spend much time observing how we listen. Some things to think about when it comes to how you listen:
Listening and hearing are two different things:
Hearing is a biological phenomenon that occurs in the body whereby sound waves register and vibrate in our ears “producing” a sound that we “hear.” Listening is different.… Read the rest
“To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.
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