Want to Improve Your Results? Shut Up and Listen!

This is the fourth in my series of suggestions on how to improve your professional results. You can find the other three here:

- Create more energy in your life.
- Commit to better working relationships.
- Project a contagious positive attitude.

Today's suggestion is:

Talk less, listen more.

Nearly everyone will benefit professionally by this advice.

Here are four benefits you will gain my developing this habit:

1. You will learn more. (It is hard to learn while you are talking.)
2. You will build better relationships. (Don't you like a person better when they really listen to you?)
3. You will gain support for your ideas. (People support ideas more when they had input into them.)
4. Your communication will be improved. (With colleagues, Customers and everyone else.)

I could share more benefits, but I would rather listen to you. Please share other benefits you think of by adding a comment.

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