{"id":1970,"date":"2014-07-30T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2014-08-02T09:52:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T16:52:11","slug":"how-to-listen-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/how-to-listen-better\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Steps to Being a Better Listener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article I read recently from the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/home-page\" title=\"WSJ\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> focused on the issues that stemmed from not listening well to others and some tips on how to address.<\/p>\n<p>Main Takeaways:<br \/>\n<strong>1.<\/strong> For an important conversation &#8211; write a list of things you want to say and questions to ask<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Before a conversation with someone, take a piece of paper and brain dump your thoughts<br \/>\n<strong>3.<\/strong> During a conversation ask clarifying questions such as &#8220;What do you need from me right now?&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>4.<\/strong> Take notes or make eye contact<br \/>\n<strong>5.<\/strong> Set a talk to listen ration of 25%:75%<br \/>\n<strong>6.<\/strong> Use an acronym like RASA R: Receive by paying attention  A: Appreciate by making little noises  S: Summarizing what the person says  and A: Asking questions afterwards<\/p>\n<p>Link to the article here: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/tuning-in-how-to-listen-better-1406070727\" title=\"How to listen\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/tuning-in-how-to-listen-better-1406070727<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article I read recently from the Wall Street Journal focused on the issues that stemmed from not listening well to others and some tips on how to address. Main Takeaways: 1. For an important conversation &#8211; write a list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/30\/how-to-listen-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,154,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-philosophy","category-reference"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielyerelian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}