Tedious interruptions
Posted by jodietonita on January 3, 2007
“Few people… have had much training in listening. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own view across, and we tend to find other peoples speeches a tedious interruption of our own ideas.” S.I. Hayakawa
The practice continues >>>With each and every person with whom you speak, bring your deepest and most respectful quality of listening.
In addition to continuing to practice your own deep listening, observe the quality of listening going on around you: in your team meetings, in conversations among colleagues, in coalition gatherings and public meetings.
What do you see?
And what, as an agent of transformational change, can you do to help deepen the quality of listening in these forums?
Adapted from the practices of Robert Gass.
