012 | New Futures: What Do You Listen For?

Leadership Impact

Welcome to Leadership Impact, the podcast for modern executives who are reinventing leadership within their organizations. Hosted by executive leadership coach and CEO of The Granger Network, Kari Granger, and Sound Financial Group CEO, Paul Adams, this podcast aims to address the topics of performance and leadership through real life examples. This is the third episode in our series on new futures.

In this episode, Kari and Paul dive into the topic of listening and the different ways we can choose to listen. The way we listen shapes how we perceive, process and react to information. Listening for accuracy, understanding, empathy, validation, utility, and opportunity are just some of the various ways in which we listen. Kari and Paul dissect the impact that listening has on leadership. When we think about leadership, Kari argues, we tend to think about the act of expression and how we’re speaking. However, in actuality, leadership begins with how we listen. In fact, by shaping the way we listen, we influence what can or cannot be said by the speaker. Kari and Paul identify the three levels of listening as well as the distinct difference between hearing and listening. Finally, Kari reveals the Five Modes of Listening that, when incorporated, can shift the way we listen so that we can be more effective and create a leadership impact.

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