Simple Things You Can Do to Become a Better Listener | Carolyn Coughlin | Knowledge Project Podcast

Acclaimed executive coach and leadership development specialist Carolyn Coughlin discusses tips to help you become a better listener, including why the language we use with each other and with ourselves is so important, the three different types of listening, the most common skill she teaches that makes an immediate impact, and how to help your kids become better listeners.

--

00:00 - Intro
01:06 - Adult Development Theory, explained
05:32 - “Have to” vs. “Want to”
10:06 - On finding balance in life
15:50 - Listening below the surface
17:40 - How language limits our progress
20:42 - Language and identity
26:04 - How language creates a status-based hierarchy
28:37 - The social impacts of remote work
32:45 - Remote work’s impact on trust
36:30 - Strategies to create trust remotely
40:18 - On creating your identity through language
41:20 - How to create conditions for success
48:30 - How to improve your listening skills
52:27 - How to coach your kid to listen better
57:56 - Can we improve ourselves?
01:04:50 - How to ask better questions
01:10:50 - Common skills Coughlin teaches others
01:17:40 - How to get a new perspective
01:23:00 - What Coughlin used to waste her time on
01:28:45 - Best leadership books Coughlin recommends
01:32:00 - Coughlin’s definition of success

--

📈  OUR MOST POPULAR INTERVIEWS

🎙 Listen to the show 

GET IN TOUCH

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY

ABOUT THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT
Like the mentor you’ve always dreamed of having, The Knowledge Project shares timely yet timeless lessons for work and life. Past guests include Naval Ravikant, Daniel Kahneman, Jim Collins, Angela Duckworth, Seth Godin, Melanie Mitchell, & Esther Perel.

[PhilippeLarcher]

Great conversation! Could you list in writing the frameworks, tools and mental models she mentioned? Or at least link to some of the guest's material in the description maybe… Cheers! (and good luck with the 13yo ;))

[SuketaPatel]

I am in the same situation with my 14 year old son. Forget about even having a try to guide... listen....but there is a loss of connection, communication....the doors are closed all of a sudden after he turned 13....he believes he knows everything and I know nothing. The iPhone is his best freind. I feel lost🙏🇨🇦❤️🌈🌎🦋🌺🏄‍♀️🛹✌️

[aminkeykha]

A persian poem says
God gives you two ears but one tongue so hear two times of what you talk !
😆