Author: Rick
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THE HARD WORK OF ATTENTION
In the best selling book The Road Less Traveled, author M. Scott Peck emphasizes the work of attention. He states that “Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because most people do not realize this or they are not willing to do the work that they do not…
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TRULY LISTEN
If you truly want to manifest the act of love, then listen. Listen with attention, listen with abandonment of your point of view, listen with total dedication to another’s vision, listen with intent to hear their meanings, their intent not just their world. Truly listen. If you truly want to manifest the act of love,…
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SHOW UP AND BE THE DIFFERENCE-MAKER
The emerging form of leadership in our fast-paced, hectic world is counter-cultural – MINDFULNESS…being attentive, focused, responsive and clear. Unfortunately, too many times it is the opposite. Here’s an example from a Human Resources manager: “I attended a mandatory meeting of salaried employees at my company. There were about forty people in the audience. The…
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FIGHTING THE INNER ASSESSMENT
Two competitive U.S. corporations were working on a joint project. The first step was to build a team composed of engineers from both companies. They were all very committed. The project was going to be profitable for both companies ($650 million over 2 years), and yet nothing was moving forward. It seemed that nothing could…
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LISTENING IS HARD WORK
Morgan Scott Peck was an American psychiatrist and best-selling author, well known for his first book, The Road Less Traveled. In this classic, he emphasized, “Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because most people do not realize this or they are not willing to do the work…
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THE POWER OF DEEP LISTENING
The term ‘active listening’ is a frequently used term that means a person is a great listener. But the reality is that a person could be faking it, engaging in surface listening and send off the impression that they are ‘actively listening’. If you are one of those who uses ‘active listening’, I invite you…
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VOICE TONE – IT’S YOUR CHOICE
How is your tone of voice? Researchers claim that up to 40% of your verbal communication is made through tone of voice. Sometimes, it’s even more than that. The 4 elements of voice tone (pitch, speed, volume and emphasis) combine to form an important part of the meaning of your messages. To underscore the importance,…
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SERVANT-LEADERSHIP
This Fall term at Rollins. I am launching a new course….Servant-Leadership. While the idea of servant leadership goes back at least two thousand years, the modern servant leadership movement was launched by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 with the publication of his classic essay, The Servant as Leader. It was in that essay that he…
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COMMUNICATE MINDFULLY
“After all we go through. we are asked to lead a life of honest expression, which starts with listening as a way to remember what matters, to name what matters, and to voice what matters. These are the practices that keep us authentic.” ~ Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen. In our warped speed…
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GIVE THE GIFT OF ATTENTION
It’s estimated that only 34% of people are fully attentive to a conversation. That means that nearly 7 out of 10 people that you communicate with are not with you. The wise essayist La Rochefoucauld observed, “The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he…