Listening Is a Leadership Skill, Not a Polite Social Habit
Listening isn’t measured by how long you allow someone to speak. It’s measured by how willing you are to understand them before deciding what to say.
Listening isn’t measured by how long you allow someone to speak. It’s measured by how willing you are to understand them before deciding what to say.
With lesser responsibilities and more experience, the elderly are raring to go and experiment. Many want to catch up with life before it gets too late.
And there are so many ways to turn that experience into contribution.
In your mind, the words are just conveying what you wanted to say. But the listener is accepting them in an emotional context which creates a barrier for the complete meaning to get conveyed.
Freedom doesn’t mean everyone else has to move out of your way. Sometimes freedom means having enough maturity to understand why you sometimes need to move aside.
The true leaders get the others to follow their lead by listening to what’s been said, by understanding what’s missing, and doing what needs to be done.