Sharpening Your Listening Skills Like a Katana
Improve Your Results With Active Listening
Listening is one of the most common and important things that we do. Recent research on work behaviour suggests that we spend approximately 9% of our time writing, 16% of our time reading, 30% of our time talking and 45% of our time listening.
View from Another Planet: Learning to Talk to Our Children
Conflict within families can be the way to increased connection or separation. Your ability to manage your own reactions is a key ingredient.
Practice Active Listening and Boost Your Sales
In sales its always said that if you understand your product and solve your customers problems then youll do well in the sales environment. But this presupposes one thing that you have really listened and understood what the customer is saying. Were talking about the importance of active listening in sales.
One Little Secret that Makes People Listen to You
It’s hard to get feedback from people, but there’s nothing like actively listening to build a relationship, which builds trust, which then builds communication and, ultimately, sales.
Be Curious And Be A Successful Communicator
There are many ways to improve the way you communicate. For example, you will always start things off on the right foot by opening the conversation in a way that creates mutual respect. Using phrases such as, “If you have a minute, I’d like to talk with you about something that I think will improve the way we work together,” helps set your conversation partner at ease. It tells him or her that you have positive intentions.