Join us for an interactive presentation, Radical Listening for Coaches, where you’ll explore this familiar skill from new angles that will enhance your coaching. Completing this learning activity is tentatively worth 1.5 units in Core Competencies.
Who Is This For?
- Experienced coaches looking to sharpen their professional skills.
- Newer coaches who are eager to understand coaching excellence.
- Managers and leaders who want to listen better.
- Coach educators and mentors who want to have more sophisticated conversations about coaching.
What You Will Learn
- Name 3 common obstacles to listening.
- Describe the connection between motivation and listening.
- Explain the relation of professional expertise to noticing.
- Define “intellectual humility”.
Course Details
As a group, professional coaches tend to be good listeners. Listening is so central to what we do, in fact, that it is one of our core competencies. This does not mean, however, that we can improve! In this interactive session, Dr. Robert Biswas-Diener invites you to reexamine listening from new angles.
The session will begin with a positive provocation: that even the best coaches are occasionally distracted, impatient, or suffer some obstacle to optimal listening. We will explore some of the most common obstacles to listening and reflect on our own listening habits.
We will then move on to a core idea: that listening is a motivated action. Here, we will reflect on some distinct motives and how each guides listening in subtly different ways. We build on this notion by introducing a skill closely related to coaching presence: noticing. There will be experiential opportunities to reflect on the process of noticing and better understand its link to listening.
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- Executive & Leadership Coaching
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