Listening

Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development, Listening

Are You paying Attention?

August 11, 2021

This week’s behaviour is treating others with dignity and respect. This is the third behaviour in the leadership practice of Enabling Others to Act and builds off last week’s vlog post and behaviour of actively listening to diverse points of view. As I explore in this week’s vlog, it’s not…

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development, Listening

Are You Listening to Diverse Points of View?

John Whitehead

August 4, 2021

Think about a meeting you were recently in. it was probably an online meeting because of the pandemic, right? Were you actively listening, or were you doing something else? Distracted by your mobile maybe, or thinking of the next meeting, conversation coming up? Did you seriously ask for input, ideas,…

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development, Listening, personal development, Soft Skills

Are You Listening?

John Whitehead

January 12, 2021

Not Listening is Marshall Goldsmith’s 16th habit in his book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There and of the 20 Habits That Keep You from the Top. Marshall comments that this is the most passive aggressive for of disrespect for colleagues. In this week’s Vlog post I not…

communication, Listening, Soft Skills

How Do We Listen to Understand?

John Whitehead

June 18, 2020

Stephen Covey said that we need to listen to understand not to respond. Communications is the foundational piece and building block that I use in my work with clients. It is the primary Soft Skill that everything else builds upon. Understanding who we are starts here. In this weeks Vlog…

Leadership Development, Listening, personal development, Self-Awareness, Soft Skills

Listening… The Secret to Communication

John Whitehead

December 12, 2018

“There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.” — Simon Sinek My previous two posts in this Soft Skills series have been about verbal and non-verbal communications: its nature of being a “two way street,” the need for both a sender and a receiver in…

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