Listening Now Blog

We talk a lot hear about what outstanding listeners do and who they’re being.   Sometimes, we’re our own worst enemy when it comes to listening. Here are three traps we can fall into when it comes to listening effectively: 1. Let our stuff get in the way.  Whatever’s going on for you right now isn’t put on [...]

On 21 July 2003, Jamie Ramage murdered his wife Julie in their Melbourne home.   In “Silent Death”, Karen Kissane writes about this terrible tragedy with a unique blend of journalistic objectivity and human compassion.  The story of how Jamie came to kill his wife of 23 years is startling, to say the least.  Not just [...]

I worked in corporateland for a long time.  I loved a lot of it and was a good corporate soldier.  At other times, it felt like I was the carrot and my employer was the grater.   I was a true-blue ‘proper’ employee for about a decade before I made my escape and became unemployable by becoming my [...]

My post on the impact of interrupting brought more comments than we’ve had here before.  Thank you to those who took the time to contact me with your thoughts on interrupting.  What most people commented on was that there seems to be a third form of interrupting.  We know about “correcting” interrupting and “cheer leading” [...]