Leadership Tip: To Listen, Write

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We all know that listening is probably the first thing you should do
in order to better understand your peers, your environment, followers,
or whoever you need to communicate with. And of course, leaders are good listeners, or should be.

To Listen, Write

A good excercise to improve your listening skills is to take notes.
What? To write while listening? Exactly, the thing is you’ll be forced
to understand what you’re writing because you write at a lower rate than the rate you talk. So, you’ll have to synthesize. When you summarize concepts you’re forced to THINK, and of course you’ll have to listen to get the new information in your head and then summarize it. You won’t get distracted by random thoughts while in a conversation, you’ll be busy writing down the ideas you’ve got from the talk.

A good way to start is work meetings. If you have the chance to assist to a meeting with three or more people is a good way to stay in focus because the others can do the talking, and you THE LISTENING.

STEP 1: TAKING NOTES
1. Take note of the time the meeting started.
2. Write every idea you find useful, and write down who mentioned.
3. Every time the conversation has a twist, or goes into another main point. Jot the the time again.
4. Repeat until the meeting finishes.
5. Take note of the time the meeting finished.

STEP 2: After you return from the meeting:
1. Check how long the meeting was.
2. What was the longer to deal with issue? Was it worthwhile to discuss the issue so long?
3. What is your position about the subject?
4. Do you think your notes are accurate?

The key with this is to do both steps, at the meeting and after the meeting. At the meeting you’ll listen, after the meeting you’ll learn and foster the new behavior.

YOUR TAKEAWAY

If you do this at least a couple of times, you’ll notice something interesting you’ll feel compeled to listen, even more, you’ll feel forced to, because you’ve seen the results. That’s it.

Remember, Be Alert, Be A Leader :)

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