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Are you listening?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

‘Listening is such a simple act.  It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else.  We don’t have to advise, or coach or sound wise.  We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.’ Margaret J. Wheatley

Listening is the essence of coaching.  Most of us spend our time half listening:  listening, but not really paying attention, listening, and doing email at the same time, listening, and thinking about what we’re going to say next.  Yet when we are fully, completely listened to, we flourish.

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