I learnt an important lesson when I decided to start my own business. I discovered through observation that the most effective way to grow your business is to let others do the talking. Over the years, I’ve been in countless business dealings and I realized that entrepreneurs who practiced exaggerated self-promotion rarely captured the attention of others. Prospective associates assumed boastful people didn't need the strategies they had to offer.
By involving other people, you’ll see how essential this is in creating business success. There are some very smart people around, believe it or not who have much information to share, and you’ll only be able to tap into it through active listening. It is only when you decide to understand where another person is coming from that you will discover all types of useful methods for achieving success.
Listening well isn't a skill we're born with unfortunately. But that’s what separates the doers from the followers. In order to lead a business successfully, you must develop it and learn to master it. Accomplishing this requires you to be dynamically present for every encounter--a difficult feat with all that goes on each day. Active listening begins with the willingness to recognize the value in every conversation you engage in.
So the next time before you open your mouth and get ready to say something, check yourself. Give the other person a chance to finish what they’re saying and consider what’s been said. You may learn something you don’t know but thought you did.
By involving other people, you’ll see how essential this is in creating business success. There are some very smart people around, believe it or not who have much information to share, and you’ll only be able to tap into it through active listening. It is only when you decide to understand where another person is coming from that you will discover all types of useful methods for achieving success.
Listening well isn't a skill we're born with unfortunately. But that’s what separates the doers from the followers. In order to lead a business successfully, you must develop it and learn to master it. Accomplishing this requires you to be dynamically present for every encounter--a difficult feat with all that goes on each day. Active listening begins with the willingness to recognize the value in every conversation you engage in.
So the next time before you open your mouth and get ready to say something, check yourself. Give the other person a chance to finish what they’re saying and consider what’s been said. You may learn something you don’t know but thought you did.
5 comments:
Listening is a part of effective communication. Why? It's because, someone need to listen when someone is talking. When people talk, we need to listen. once finished, then we can share what we think about the topic discussed. Ernie always let go to his employees to decide. He's a successful entrepreneur and he will give a clear direction to his people. We learnt from mistakes.
Other companies can do this as well, give people opportunity to share their ideas. Who knows, it can make the company grow better.
I always think that listen first is more important compare to speak. Listening is to understand the situation and then speak to clarify. it will minimize the communications breakdown.
Listening - is a biggest challenge to some of us. We filter on what we want to hear and eliminate what we do not want to hear.
To be successful person, listening is a part of growing the business.
Agreed with the article sharing.
sometimes i will trapped myself into the situation because i want to clarify things quickly.
some people that i know they just don't listen and they always think they know everything because they hold a certain "position" in an organization. that's really annoys me.
another situation is they appreciate how entrepreneur function and they always think they can be part of it, however they say differently and behave differently behind.
i've learned and agree listen to experience people talk and then take action.
thanks for the reminder.
Active Listening Skills is one of the skills that everyone has to develop. A great Sales People is not the one that always talking, but it's the one that who listen to customers first and understand what the customers want and only offer the solution to the customers.
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