Leadership Tip of the Week

Listen to others!

Our job in life is not to fix other people’s problems, most people are big and able enough to figure it out themselves.

If you want to make the biggest difference, just listen to others! Be there for them and get what they are saying, how they are feeling and what they are currently going through and dealing with. People want to be heard, understood and gotten.

Listening has magical qualities. When others are burdened and you listen in a truly attentive, authentic and generous way you actually help them get to the other side of what they are dealing with. So, if you want to make a difference, be interested, not interesting.

And remember, if you don’t listen you will eventually surround yourself with people who have nothing to say.

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