Having Asked Our Questions...Let People Speak

Let People Speak...And Then Do What Is Hardest Of All For Most of Us...Listen

And I don't mean listen for answers...especially when there is a question on the table, and a problem to solve.

I also don't mean listen for what you like and filter out what you don't like...you know the knee jerk agree/disagree reflex we all have that only allows what we like and agree with to make it through to us.

No, I mean listen, it is one of the hardest things to do, in my experience, to just listen...with no judgements, no evaluations, no assessments. Just listen so as to really get another person's perspective...how come they think, feel, and believe as they do...?

Simon Sinek has some useful coaching for purposeful leaders be the last person to speak. 

When we know we are being listened to...magic happens, or atleast so it seems. We find ourselves saying things that we didn't even know we knew to say. We find ourselves expressing feelings, emotions and passions we didn't know we had...or atleast not to the extend we express them when we are really being listened to. 

Purposeful leaders get the importance of being listened to for a purpose to be fully expressed in the world. They also get how essential it is for everyone to have the experience that they are being listened to, if their self expression and passion is to see the light of day...the very self expression and passion that brings purpose to life.