{"id":8367,"date":"2019-06-20T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2019-05-14T19:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:52:16","slug":"listening-is-essential-in-a-coaching-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/listening-is-essential-in-a-coaching-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening is Essential in a Coaching Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening is one of the most important tasks to excel in: really hearing what is said and at the same time what is really meant, too.\u00a0 When you listen well, are open and accepting, then you are prepared to engage in a coaching culture.\u00a0 During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/en\/training.html\">coach training<\/a>, specific insights and listening techniques are taught.\u00a0 Interesting facts about listening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People hear one word in seven.<\/li>\n<li>People only remember 25 to 50 percent of what is heard.<\/li>\n<li>Only 7% of understanding is the words (55% is visual and 38% is tone \/ volume).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are the techniques to move past these realities? \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8368 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dreamstimemaximum_18179791.jpg\" alt=\"Listening is Essential in a Coaching Culture \" width=\"255\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Listen intentionally and actively, completely focusing on the speaker.<\/li>\n<li>Rephrase using the speaker\u2019s key words and put the rest in your own words to verify understanding and demonstrate you listened.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect the emotions behind the words back to the speaker to further clarify meaning and show understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>How does listening make a difference?\u00a0 Consider this brief example:<\/p>\n<p>Eduardo: My inbox is overloaded!<\/p>\n<p>Kelly: Are you worried you cannot keep up?<\/p>\n<p>This is poor listening that includes analyzing, interpreting, and judging.<\/p>\n<p>Now apply effective listening:<\/p>\n<p>Kelly: Talk about your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>This is opening the door to explore the situation so that the focus can be on strategizing solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Friends share stories and experiences, empathize with one another, and then analyze problems and people.\u00a0In conversations, friends relate to what friends say, their stories remind each other of other stories to share, plans call for input and opinion with different recommendations and advice-giving, problems call for suggested solutions.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, coaching uses listening and questioning to empower thinking, brainstorm, explore, and choose.\u00a0 Listening intentionally means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Listen to what is said with a focus on understanding thought process and interests.<\/li>\n<li>Hear the challenges and ask them to generate solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Hear the options and ask questions to empower open thinking and broader perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening is one of the most important tasks to excel in: really hearing what is said and at the same time what is really meant, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[909,50,882,294,906,907,908,910],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-clarify","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-culture","tag-listening","tag-listening-is-essential-in-a-coaching-culture","tag-listening-is-one-of-the-most-important-tasks-to-excel-in","tag-listening-techniques","tag-show-understanding","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8369,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions\/8369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}