The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Leibowitz
Are you waiting or listening?
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This post was written by john on April 6, 2010
The most important of mentoring virtues
To obtain an insightful understanding of protégés, mentors need to have a personal relationship with them. [...] This means that excellent mentors are accessible and available. But they also need to exhibit the human skills of listening, caring, communicating openly, and giving constructive feedback. To conclude, taking the time to truly know protégés is arguably the most important of the mentoring virtues.
- Elements of Mentoring by W. Brad Johnson & Charles R. Ridley.
This post was written by admin on December 18, 2008
Judgement vs. Feedback
There is a difference between judgement and feedback. Judgement is what you said was wrong while feedback is “this is how. I felt about your speech.” This enables people to find out which area they can improve.
-Loghandran Krishnasamy, First Runner Up, WCPS 2008, taken from this article.
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This post was written by john on November 29, 2008
Listening with your mouth open
You can learn a lot more from listening than you can from talking. Find someone with whom you don’t agree in the slightest and ask them to explain themselves at length. Then take a seat, shut your mouth, and don’t argue back. It’s physically impossible to listen with your mouth open.
– John Moe
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This post was written by john on November 16, 2008
Cherish it and use it
Get a feedback loop and listen to it…it can be one great man who tells you what you need to hear.
The hard part is the listening to it. Anybody can get chewed out. It’s the rare person who says: “Oh my God, you were right.” As opposed to, “no wait, the real reason is…” We’ve all heard that.
When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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This post was written by john on October 12, 2008
