Advicelet benefit: Learning how to really listen in situations where you may normally tune out or have the burning desire to interrupt can be the difference between success and failure in a task.

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Listening, is without doubt one of the most important skills in business to master. It sounds so trivial when you read the title of today’s advicelet, however today – we’d really like to challenge you and ask you to listen to yourself in your next business conversation and analyse whether you’ve really listened or just heard.

With hundreds of things going on in your life, deadlines looming, pressures from all angles, skimming conversations – listening with half of one ear is a really easy trap to fall into. Hopefully you’ve not developed the terrible practice of sitting in a meeting with a laptop, doing your email – those that do clearly do not listen. On the flip side, even if you are giving your undivided attention to a conversation – are you still listening – are you really following the 25 pointers in the section below?

As ever with today’s advicelet – it will take you no longer than 10 minutes to read it and this advice can all be used from 9.00 this morning – we challenge you to REALLY think about the next conversation you have….

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