Listening Pays
What you'll learn
- To learn and apply a complete and proven listening success system.
- A time tested listening framework that includes a solid foundation and 5 strategies.
- An action defintiion of listening that can be immediately put into practice.
- The 10 Listening Habits that create extraordinay value and positive results.
- Simple methods to take 100% responsibility for your listening success.
- Sound tactics to effectively control distractions.
- The remedy for multitasking.
- How to lead your emotions and deal with your triggers.
- Listen to and remeber people's names.
- Listen with empathy and 2 useful skills.
- Listen to yourself and create a positive mindset.
- The courage to listen to almost anything.
- An example of an ultimate listening leader.
- And much more.
Requirements
- The first and single most important requirement is to COMMIT to strengthen your listening behavior.
- Come with an open mind, open heart, and open will to learn and apply each session's lessons.
Description
Listening is the one activity that you do more in your life than any other activity except to breathe. The term ‘Listening Pays’ means that if you do this most treasured communication skill well, you will produce value in your life and in other people’s lives. The bottom line is that it 'pays' to listen well. Listening is life’s most treasured communication skill. It is highly valuable when it is done effectively.
Unfortunately, listening is frequently viewed as requiring nothing more than common sense and polite attention. Nothing could be further from the truth! It's estimated that the average person misunderstands, ignores, or forgets at least 75% of what they listen to. This creates all kinds of costs. Why does this happen? Because most people have no formal listening education. It is the least taught of the communication skills.
During this highly engaging course, you will learn and apply a proven listening pays success system from an award-winning listening professional with decades of practice, teaching, consulting, writing and publishing experience. This course offers the 'best of the best' of 30 years of teaching listening to thousands of people throughout the world.
Who this course is for:
- Adults of all ages who who want to be a better listener to have a better life.
- Spouses and partners.
- Parents
- Friends
- Leaders
- Managers and supervisors
- Sales professionals
- Entrepreneurs
- Teachers
- Business owners
- Healthcare professionals
- Legal professionals
- Politicians
- Any professional who realizes that listening can create a rich and fulfilling life.
- Those who would like to join the listening movement and make the world a better place.
Course content
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Instructor
![Rick Bommelje](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 8 Reviews
- 49 Students
- 1 Course
I am known by many as the 'Listening Doctor'. However, I call myself the 'Listening Master Student'. My personal and professional mistakes brought me to seek to become a better listener. This journey began in 1987 and continues to this day. In addition to my daily listening practice, I've been privileged to be able to use listening as the focus of my career of teaching listening and leadership for over three decades.
I serve as a Professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. I created the first Listening course at the College in 1992 and have had nearly 3,000 students participate. In 2012, I was selected as one of the top 300 college professors in the nation by the Princeton Review. I am a past president of the International Listening Association, was inducted into the Listening Hall of Fame, and am a Certified Listening Professional.
I have also authored/co-authored 3 listening books: 'Listening Leaders'; 'Listening Pays'; and 'Be Quick to Listen'.
Additionally, I am the president of the Leadership & Listening Institute, Inc. and have worked with thousands of leaders from a wide variety of organizations on their listening and leadership skills.
My goal is to provide you with a practical and "real world" approach to listening education and development. I focus on action learning in which you can achieve measurable results if you commit, learn and apply.