LISTENING: AN ESSENTIAL VALUE FOR LEADERS
If you are going on a job interview today, what would you say is the most important skill you would need? Is it writing, to create a knockout resume? Or maybe salesmanship? After all, isn’t that what you do on an interview, sell yourself? Or how about charisma? If you are charismatic, you are sure to get the job you want, right? Or let’s say that instead of going on an interview, you were going to spend your day recruiting, whether for business prospects, or people to function in your team. What skill would you need as a recruiter? Discernment? An eye for talent? Better yet, let’s say your job today was to supply new ideas for your organization. What qualities would you need? Creativity? Intelligence? What is the number one ability you would need? No matter which one of these three tasks you were to take on today, you would need one skill over all others, more than talent, discernment, or charm. It is the one skill that all great leaders recognize as indispensable to their