Learning how to actively listen and absorb what a person is saying, thinking, and feeling can set the stage for dramatically improved relationships and increased personal success. Most people retain only a fraction of what they hear, resulting in miscommunications and lost opportunities. In Listen Up or Lose Out, communications expert Robert Bolton highlights the underestimated and under-utilized tool of active listening and explains how it can be used to gather perspectives, bridge differences, and resolve problems. Bolton teaches you key communication skills by: breaking down listening into…mehr
Learning how to actively listen and absorb what a person is saying, thinking, and feeling can set the stage for dramatically improved relationships and increased personal success. Most people retain only a fraction of what they hear, resulting in miscommunications and lost opportunities. In Listen Up or Lose Out, communications expert Robert Bolton highlights the underestimated and under-utilized tool of active listening and explains how it can be used to gather perspectives, bridge differences, and resolve problems. Bolton teaches you key communication skills by: breaking down listening into a set of learnable skills such as avoiding the urge to criticize, question, or advise; focusing on the speaker's point of view; asking the right questions, in the right order; and learning how to read people's feelings and reflect them back Listen Up or Lose Out explains how one can become a skilled listener who experiences fewer conflicts, makes better decisions, and discovers opportunities that others might miss. Whether personally or in business, could you benefit from better communication? Give listening a try!
Robert Bolton was educated in the sciences and developed a strong interest in traditional metaphysics, obtaining from Exeter University the degrees of M.Phil and Ph.D. He is the author of The Order of the Ages: The Hidden Laws of World History, The Logic of Spiritual Values, Self and Spirit, The One and the Many: A Defense of Theistic Religion, Foundations of Free Will, and Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the Real Self. All these books are written from the point of view of traditional wisdom, and not tradition for its own sake-for in a world where wisdom is disregarded in favor of power, this point of view keeps all of its relevance. Bolton also contributed regularly to the journal Sacred Web, in which unfolded epistolary exchanges with traditionalist author Charles Upton that may be found in the latter's book, Knowings in the Arts of Metaphysics, Cosmology, and the Spiritual Path. Bolton was a member of the Church of England until the 1960s, when, having observed how willingly that Church was accepting the changes demanded by modern secularism, he converted to the Catholic Church, and to the reality of sacred tradition, which gave him the confidence to write the kind of philosophy he believed the modern world sorely needed. Well-known author Stratford Caldecott credits his first steps toward conversion to Catholicism to Robert Bolton.
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Introduction: What This Book Will Do for You xi PART I: WHY IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING? 1. Quality Listening Enhances Work Relationships 3 2. Listening Well Is Good Business 15 3. A Good Listener Is a Rare Find 23 4. Quality Listening Strengthens Personal Relationships 31 PART II: DO'S AND DON'TS OF GREAT LISTENING 5. Trouble Spots in the Talking--Listening Process 43 6. Identifying Your Listening Missteps 53 7. Reducing Major Missteps 67 8. Skill-Based Listening 71 9. Whose Turn Is it? 77 10. Focus Your Attention 83 11. Be a Great Asker 95 12. Creating and Sequencing Productive Questions 101 PART III: REFLECTING CONTENT 13. Reflective Listening: Antidote to Miscommunication 115 14. Paraphrase What's Important 129 15. Listen Through the Pauses 141 PART IV: READING AND REFLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELINGS 16. Why Listen to People's Feelings? 151 17. "Read" People's Feelings 161 18. Reflect Feelings and Meanings 171 PART V: THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND 19. Wrap It Up with a Summary Reflection 185 20. Results-Focused Listening 193 21. The Listening Spirit 209 22. Make Great Listening Part of Your Everyday Life 219 Appendix 231 Endnotes 243 Index 261
Introduction: What This Book Will Do for You xi PART I: WHY IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING? 1. Quality Listening Enhances Work Relationships 3 2. Listening Well Is Good Business 15 3. A Good Listener Is a Rare Find 23 4. Quality Listening Strengthens Personal Relationships 31 PART II: DO'S AND DON'TS OF GREAT LISTENING 5. Trouble Spots in the Talking--Listening Process 43 6. Identifying Your Listening Missteps 53 7. Reducing Major Missteps 67 8. Skill-Based Listening 71 9. Whose Turn Is it? 77 10. Focus Your Attention 83 11. Be a Great Asker 95 12. Creating and Sequencing Productive Questions 101 PART III: REFLECTING CONTENT 13. Reflective Listening: Antidote to Miscommunication 115 14. Paraphrase What's Important 129 15. Listen Through the Pauses 141 PART IV: READING AND REFLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELINGS 16. Why Listen to People's Feelings? 151 17. "Read" People's Feelings 161 18. Reflect Feelings and Meanings 171 PART V: THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND 19. Wrap It Up with a Summary Reflection 185 20. Results-Focused Listening 193 21. The Listening Spirit 209 22. Make Great Listening Part of Your Everyday Life 219 Appendix 231 Endnotes 243 Index 261
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