Good morning and welcome to the Increase for Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2182. Today we're

talking about how to be a more effective listener. If you want to be a great leader, listening needs to be an

important component to your leadership toolbox. There are many studies that show that trust leads to improve performance.

And the leader that's able to listen to their people improves trusts which also improves performance.

And so if you want to improve your trust with you and your people, and it doesn't matter if you're a CEO of a company, if you are a parent, if you're a coach or a teacher, maybe you're just a not just, but maybe you're a team captain.

And maybe you're a youngster in high school. Learning how to be a better listener is huge in order to become a better leader.

Now, if you think to yourself that you're not

very, you're not a very good listener and you want to learn how to do it, here are four things

that you can do to help you become a better listener. Number one are nonverbal cues. You want to

signal with your face and with your body that you are actually present

and listening to the person that you're talking to. You're not looking over their shoulder or

looking around. Your eyes are locked in on the present. You are not in your head. You're listening.

You're giving them nonverbal feedback with your body that you are fully

present. It's annoying to talk to somebody who seems like they want to move on. They don't want to

be there with you. You don't want to fall into that trap and do that to other people. Number two is

you want to reflect back what they're saying. Summar summarize their words, paraphrase their words,

give them their words in your own, give them their words back in your own words.

And as you do this, you show them that you're actually listening.

You're using their phrases.

You're reflecting back to them.

You're trying to understand and summarize

what they're saying and that reflects to them that you are actually listening.

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