Episode 10: How to be an Effective Active Listener featuring Simon Kardynal
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Show Notes
I’d like to begin this episode by acknowledging the land that I am learning and living on is the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People.
When you’re talking to a colleague, a friend, or your boss, how often do you find yourself cut-off just at the end of your sentence? How often have you seen the person with their mouth open, hands raised, just chomping at the bit to speak? Now, how often have you not felt truly heard by these people, felt rushed or misunderstood and felt as though you didn’t have the voice you would have wanted?
In this episode, we will be talking about the invaluable art of active listening. We will discuss what it means to be an active listener versus a passive listener, and we will talk about why active listening is so crucial for leaders. And finally, we round out the episode with some ways to help all emerging leaders be the very best active listeners that they want to become.
Relevant Links:
1. Centre for Creative Leadership (Active Listening): https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/coaching-others-use-active-listening-skills/
2. Harvard Business Review (Active Listening): https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-great-listeners-actually-do
3. Lifehack.org (Passive Listening): https://www.lifehack.org/881336/passive-listening
4. Passive Listening: https://dylansapienza.medium.com/passive-listening-what-is-it-do-you-do-it-should-we-be-worried-1aa686bff8d3
5. Non-Verbal Cues (HelpGuide.org): https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relationships-communication/nonverbal-communication.htm
6. Types of Non-Verbal Cues (Verywellmind.com): https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-nonverbal-communication-2795397
Connect Here:
Trench Leadership website: https://www.trenchleadership.ca/
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Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada website: https://www.concussionfoundation.ca
Cite this episode
Kardynal, S., Season 01 Episode 10: How to be an effective active listener featuring Simon Kardynal. Trench Leadership: A Podcast From the Front. 2021