Warning: Seven Days To Become A Better Listener is an unusual approach to listening developed to train engineers and scientists. You will not be given the usual tips like “you have two ears and one mouth…” or “let the other person finish speaking…” or “reflect and reframe….” Instead, you’ll get a listening system that works on stage and in real-world situations.
You are (probably) a good listener…. But if you’re not, how would you know?
It’s not like someone comes up to you after the meeting and tells you all the crucial moments you missed, opportunities you wasted, and valuable pieces of information you didn’t get.
In the same way a misplaced semicolon can crash an entire program, a minor listening mistake can have major life consequences. The difference is that code gets debugged and iterated rapidly. Listening mistakes often aren’t discovered at all.
Has this ever happened to you?
- A great idea of yours gets ignored.
- Your work goes under-appreciated.
- You help someone and they get mad at you.
- You don’t get brought into meetings that you should be in.
- You aren’t asked to take on additional leadership responsibilities.
These problems and others are often rooted in listening mistakes made far earlier. One piece of information you didn’t get… which led to a missed signal… which set an expectation in the wrong place… which led to more miscommunication… etc.
Seven Days To Become A Better Listener will help you:
- Bring people on board with your ideas.
- Connect with people more easily and quickly.
- Feel more confident in social situations.
- Understand what’s going on in the hearts and minds around you.
- Get more good ideas from teammates and colleagues.
- Improve your leadership skills.
