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Coaching for Leaders

408: Get Better at Deep Listening, with Oscar Trimboli

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Oscar Trimboli: Deep Listening

Oscar is a mentor, coach, speaker, and author. He was a director at Microsoft for over a decade and headed up the MS Office division in Australia. Today, he works with leadership teams and their organizations on the importance of clarity to create change, how to embrace the digital economy, and the role values play in the achievement of your purpose. He is the author of Deep Listening: Impact Beyond Words*.

Key Points

  • Listen beyond the words that are said and try to determine what the speaker is really trying to say.
  • The more senior you are, the more listening you’ll do.
  • Ask the speaker: “Tell me more” or “What else are you thinking?” or “How long have you been thinking about that?”
  • To be a great listener, you have to create a space where you’re available to listen.
  • For every hour you listen, you need to spend another hour in action.
  • Leaders often are not great at hearing all the opinions in the room.

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0:00.0

You've probably already heard the traditional advice around listening better to paraphrase,

0:06.0

summarizing what the other person said, mirroring their body language.

0:10.0

But there's a lot beyond that. this episode how to get better at deep listening.

0:16.0

This is Coaching for Leaders episode 408.

0:20.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:27.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

0:33.0

This is coaching for leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac.

0:37.0

Leaders aren't born, they're made,

0:40.0

and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:47.0

And speaking of insightful conversations, one of the key elements of course is our ability to practice listening. Not only listening but

0:56.6

deep listening. Today's guest is going to help us to take this step to become a

1:01.0

more effective listener and to inspire us with some key strategies that will help us to take that next step.

1:08.6

I am glad to welcome to the show today Oscar Trumboli.

1:12.3

Oscar is a mentor, coach, speaker, and author.

1:16.0

He was a director at Microsoft for over a decade.

1:19.0

During his time there, he headed up the Microsoft Office Division in Australia and also created what became

1:24.8

known as Microsoft Protege, a Talent Development Program for undergraduates looking for work at

1:30.4

Microsoft. Today he works with leadership teams and their organizations on the importance of clarity to create change, how to embrace the digital economy and the role values play in the achievement of your purpose.

1:43.4

He is the author of Deep Listening, Impact Beyond Words.

1:47.6

Oscar, so glad to meet you.

1:49.6

G'd I, Dave, I'm looking forward to listening to you and speaking to you today.

1:53.7

Yeah well in addition to our conversation about deep listening you've been a long time

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