Binding: Paperback
Description: This book answers a number of fundamental questions about listening in coaching and mentoring. What difference does being heard make to the speaker? How does it have that effect? What are the necessary components of good listening? How do you evaluate your practice as a listener and how do you improve? The process of writing this book led the author to look closely at his own practice test experiment and push his listening to a higher level. He invites the reader to do the same. This book identifies what it takes to listen well the skills mind - set presence self - awareness and self - management and why it can be hard. It demonstrates how four modes of listening attention inquiry observation and use of self all contribute to the listener's understanding and to the speaker's awareness. It argues that we all have a learning edge as listeners and provides a framework that helps each of us find it. The book is intended as a companion for anyone who commits to becoming a good listener. It shows how to develop expertise in the four modes of listening. It offers examples and principles to guide practice questions for reflection and a series of workouts to help the listener develop their ability to listen. It encourages by showing how good listening is simple you turn up pay attention and listen with all you have and it challenges by identifying the work it takes to do that.
Title: The Art Of Listening In Coaching And Mentoring
Author(s): Burt Stephen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138609037
Pages: 148 Pages, 4 Halftones, Black And White
Publication Date: 6/28/2019
Series: Routledge EMCC Masters in Coaching and Mentoring
Category: Management: Leadership & Motivation