Deep Listening is Becoming a Lost Skill (Why Smart People Really Listen)
And really paying attention pays off in the end
We all need to listen better. That is the mantra. But why do you really need to pay attention to what the other person is saying and trying to convey to you? What’s in it for you?
“As leaders and positive difference-makers, one of our biggest challenges, we must turn into an opportunity is to get individuals to listen and pay attention”, says Coach George Raveling.
Is deep listening a lost skill? What’s all the fuss about listening?
What about those conversations that just suck? The conversation partner is only interested in unloading his garbage on you, sucking up your time and wasting your energy. A one-way street in which your role is to replace the wall at the end of the street, so it doesn’t look so stupid for the other party to talk to a wall.
Do we really need to be the good listeners in these situations?
These are the situations where you want to remove yourself from the conversation, with kindness and determination, just as you would remove a tick from your skin, carefully twisting it and slowly pulling out, without offending anybody.
