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Importance of Relationships
Talking about importance of relationships to combat burn out, process improvement, ways to manage career, and life.
Removing listening blocks to improve relationships.
How being future focused can make you lose sight of the present.
Having an emotional and physical plan for the day.
Using process improvement to make life more efficient.
Entering flow state with rap music.
Building the habit of showing up.
Learning to embrace being uncomfortable and producing anyway.
12 Listening Blocks That Hinder Relationships
Summarized from "Messages: The Communication Skill Book" by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning.
Comparing
Difficult to listen when you are seeing if you measure up.
Minding Reading
Believing you know what the person is actually saying with only your intuition, or vague misgivings to guide you.
Rehearsing
No time to listen when you are rehearsing what to say.
Filtering
Listening only to confirm if someone is angry, unhappy, or if you are in danger.
Can also be used to avoid hearing threatening, negative, or critical comments.
Judging
Forming your opinion before hearing and evaluating the content.
Causes listening to cease, and jumping to conclusions.
Dreaming
Half listening until something triggers a memory, then you are back in your private world.
If this is a pattern with a certain party, could be you do not value what they have to say.
Identifying
Things heard are related back to your own experiences and now you are occupied crafting your story to tell.
Advising
Offering advise after a cursory listen, leaves the party feeling more alone and unheard.
Sparring
Focus is on things to disagree with.
The put-down
Dismissing what the party is saying with a sharp cutting comments.
Discounting
Bringing yourself down after hearing a compliment.
Leaves party feeling unheard when expressing their appreciation.
Being Right
Focus on avoiding criticism, and resistant to change.
Derailing
Quick subject changes.
Responding with jokes to avoid any serious listening.
Placating
Agreeing with everything, instead of listening.
Comes from wanting the party to accept you.
Mentioned in Episode
Alt House
University of Saskatchewan (U of S)
Messages The Communication Skills Book
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Talking about importance of relationships to combat burn out, process improvement, ways to manage career, and life.
Removing listening blocks to improve relationships.
How being future focused can make you lose sight of the present.
Having an emotional and physical plan for the day.
Using process improvement to make life more efficient.
Entering flow state with rap music.
Building the habit of showing up.
Learning to embrace being uncomfortable and producing anyway.
12 Listening Blocks That Hinder Relationships
Summarized from "Messages: The Communication Skill Book" by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning.
Comparing
Difficult to listen when you are seeing if you measure up.
Minding Reading
Believing you know what the person is actually saying with only your intuition, or vague misgivings to guide you.
Rehearsing
No time to listen when you are rehearsing what to say.
Filtering
Listening only to confirm if someone is angry, unhappy, or if you are in danger.
Can also be used to avoid hearing threatening, negative, or critical comments.
Judging
Forming your opinion before hearing and evaluating the content.
Causes listening to cease, and jumping to conclusions.
Dreaming
Half listening until something triggers a memory, then you are back in your private world.
If this is a pattern with a certain party, could be you do not value what they have to say.
Identifying
Things heard are related back to your own experiences and now you are occupied crafting your story to tell.
Advising
Offering advise after a cursory listen, leaves the party feeling more alone and unheard.
Sparring
Focus is on things to disagree with.
The put-down
Dismissing what the party is saying with a sharp cutting comments.
Discounting
Bringing yourself down after hearing a compliment.
Leaves party feeling unheard when expressing their appreciation.
Being Right
Focus on avoiding criticism, and resistant to change.
Derailing
Quick subject changes.
Responding with jokes to avoid any serious listening.
Placating
Agreeing with everything, instead of listening.
Comes from wanting the party to accept you.
Mentioned in Episode
Alt House
University of Saskatchewan (U of S)
Messages The Communication Skills Book
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Real Estate – Integrity – AA
Artistic Journey – Fundamentals – Digital Media
Entertainment Rigging – Teamwork – Focus
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