
1: Introduction to Powerful Listening
Coaching for Leaders
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How to Be an Effective Listener
The first level of listening is to pretend that we're listening, but really our mind and our mental energy are somewhere else. The next level is partial listening where you maybe occasionally make eye contact with whoever's speaking,. Maybe even nod to kind of keep up the, keep up the illusion, if you will, that you’re supposedly listening. And a lot of people do this in organizations all over the world every single day. So just like when you heard that audio clip the first time, you were probably doing some partial listening. You'd made a small shift as far as listening for one specific focus thing and you were able to get a lot more information.
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