Leadership is Listening

Leadership is Listening

Leadership must practice active listening to understand the needs of upcoming leaders.  As new leaders strive to engage experienced leaders, active listening is critical to ensure investments in leadership development are not departing to other organizations.  Leaders can practice active listening by:

Importance of Listening in Leadership

• Paying full attention;
• Processing the message;
• Monitor body actions;
• Process vocal tones; and
• Adapting to understand the point of the message.

Great leaders must listen daily to help others grow into tomorrow’s leaders.  Active listening is an early step to building the core relationships with upcoming leaders.  Being a great active listener will build:

• Rapport;
• Trust;
• Respect;
• Confidence; and
• Engagement.

That last item is talked about a lot in today’s leadership industry.  Lack of engagement starts with not listening to the needs of rising leadership stars.  Strong leaders MUST actively listen to better understand upcoming leaders:

• Objectives;
• Leadership development needs;
• Positional wants;
• Promotional timelines; and
• Career expectations.

Leaders will face challenges daily to engage leadership teams.  But at the foundation, active listening will provide the basis for great leadership to identify opportunities for engagement and lead upcoming leaders to fulfillment.  Thanks.

Mike

www.bleadersedge.com

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