Adaptive Listening (how To Cultivate Trust And Traction In The Workplace)

By (author) Lowenbraun, Nicole; By (author) Stephens, Maegan; Foreword by Duarte Nancy
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Adaptive Listening is for those wanting to improve the way they, and their teams, communicate up, down, across, internally, and externally. Through engaging stories and practical techniques, the authors introduce a new model for listening.
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There isn’t one way to listen. It’s time to adapt our listening!

Adaptive Listening is for those wanting to improve the way they, and their teams, communicate up, down, across, internally, and externally. Through engaging stories and practical techniques, the authors introduce a new model for listening.

Not just another book on communication. Adaptive Listening helps readers up-level the under-trained side of communication amidst the realities of a hectic workday. Researched and tested exclusively in the work setting, readers will move beyond active listening and embrace effective and easy-to-remember techniques that reduce ambiguity and tension. 

Leaders at all levels can improve their listening skills. Emerging and established leaders can build more awareness about their own listening style and the impact it has on workplace culture. Only then can they adapt to meet the goals and needs of direct reports, peers, managers, customers, and stakeholders.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• How to leverage the strengths and avoid the pitfalls of your own listening style, including the way you process and respond to information, leading to increased self-awareness and professional growth
• How to break away from ineffective listening and step into adaptive listening to meet the goals and needs of the person speaking 
• How to reduce mistrust, misalignment, and miscommunication by being more mindful of the barriers that prevent you from using empathetic communication
• How to cue others listeners—who aren’t yet familiar with Adaptive Listening— to listen in the way you want and need

If you''re looking for books on building empathy in the workplace, best-selling books for leaders, or books on active listening, add this book to your list! If you enjoyed You’re Not Listening, Just Listen, Listen Like You Mean It, How to Listen with Intention, or Power Listening, then you’ll love Adaptive Listening.

Table of contents
Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction: There’s a New Way to Listen

Part I: Know Where You’re Starting From

• Chapter 1: The Way You Prefer to Listen
• Chapter 2: Barriers Preventing You from Being an Adaptive Listener

Part II: Know Where They’re Headed To

• Chapter 3: Identify the Speaker’s Interaction Goal
• Chapter 4: Identify the Speaker’s Emotional Need

Part III: Close the Gap & Check the Distance

• Chapter 5: Adapt to Help Them Meet Their Goals and Needs
• Chapter 6: Keep Adapting

Part IV: “Ok, but What About…”

• Chapter 7: Helping Others Adapt to Meet Your Goals and Needs
• Chapter 8: FAQs from Adaptive Listeners in Training

Closing
References
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors

Biographical note
Nicole Lowenbraun is a senior content developer and executive speaking coach. She brings deep insight into why words, and how you say them, matters. Nicole serves as Senior Content Developer and Executive Speaker Coach at Duarte, Inc., where she has coached and written for thousands of clients, most of which top the Fortune 100. With a master’s in Communication, Nicole most recently researched and co created Duarte’s newest body of work, Adaptive Listening. Nicole resides in Brooklyn, New York. Maegan Stephens, PhD, is a director, content & coaching le