1. TELL ME MORE On the Fine Art of Listening
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Active Listening
TELL ME MORE
On the Fine Art of Listening

2. The POWER of Listening We forget it:
To our children: CRITICAL OR PASSIVE
To the ones we love: BOREDOM…DEATH OF LOVE
More importantly…the ones we don’t.

3. The Power of Listening Each one of us has someone that listened to us.
The reason…when we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Who do you go to for advice?

4. The Power of Listening

5. The Power of Listening….Illustrated
Someone trusts you enough
Evolves into this….but not overnight!

6. Hearing “Did you hear what I said?”; “I heard what you said!”
Hard of Hearing or Hard of Listening?

7. Listening
Getting Off Track

8. More complications to listening?

9. Barriers to Listening Knowing the answer Trying to be helpful
Treating discussion as competition
Trying to influence or impress
Reacting to red flag words
Believing in language
Mixing up the forest and the trees
Over-splitting and over-lumping

10. Listening; Getting it All Moving

11. The Power of Listening HOW DIFFICULT IS IT FOR ALL OF US…
LISTEN…NOT ONCE PRESSING AGAINST LISTENING TO SOMEONE WITH YOUR OWN THOUGHTS…
OR…YOUR OWN ASSERTIONS?

12. Listening
Learned Habits
Listen
But…

13. Listening Skills To Learn Listen Give Time Restate Summarize
Ask Questions
What else?

14. “Safety Man” A Time for Reflection
Generally speaking why do we have the reputation we do?
Blow in…blow out
Hard to know everybody
Don’t know the language
Don’t have to have a “Safety Man” to tell me how to do my job!
To name a few

15. “Safety Man” A Time for Reflection
Or a part of one of these….
Rock Star Tour: Entourage to big
Blind Man Walking: Walks past hazard and says…
Seagull Syndrome: Poop and leave
Limousine Tour: Never get out of the truck
Casper the Ghost: Never saw anybody, and nobody saw you
Cameo Appearance: Quick sighting; in a big hurry

16. Listening….Really We ALL want to be listened to…
We ALL want to be heard…
See what happens when that other person senses you are truly listening!
Try it today with
Spouse
Child
Grandchild
Co-worker

17. Your Life Could Depend On It!
JSA’s/JHA’s
Beyond Listening
Your Life Could Depend On It!

18. Your Life Could Depend On It!
Living
Beyond Listening
Your Life Could Depend On It!

19. Conclusion & Questions?
Living
Conclusion & Questions?
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” – Albert Einstein