Welcome to the July 2009 newsletter update for VIP Success Club.
It’s great to be presenting to you another VIP Success Club newsletter for the month of July. It’s also really humbling to have so much great feedback about the newsletters we have brought to you so far.
What has surprised me most is the amount of people who have decided that VIP Success Club should be their FIRST STEP toward a change in their life. What an absolute honour.
I can’t help but boast about the emails we have received telling us of the value of VIP Success Club either. I mean, we always knew we had a fantastic product bringing together all these wonderful resources, though it’s not until you find out what other people think that you can be sure you are on to a winner.
For Liza and myself, it has been another huge month as we have decided to kick off another new business! Put this on top of several other ventures we already have on the run and yes we are busy. The best part is though, that we are spending more time together than ever before, which is the most satisfying part.
It really has dawned on me this past month though how much GETTING INTO ACTION has changed my life. I have had a thousand great ideas, but not a single one paid me a cent until I went out and sold the idea for a profit! Now that I know the worst thing that can happen is an idea doesn’t work and I have to start again, I can’t wait to try another idea.
By the way... is anyone else thinking snow, or is it just me?
Today's success tip comes from SHANE TOOHEY.
Shane created a business consultancy called Peak Teams. Together with his business partner, Ian Schubach, Shane developed a patent-pending technology that simulates adventure environments to create unique and powerful learning programs on leadership, teamwork and change. Peak Teams works with some of the biggest and best-known companies in the world.
What are some of the practical things one can do to become a better listener?
For most people today, the single biggest impediment to good listening is lack of time. People make themselves too busy to listen. So the first and most important step for becoming a better listener is to make some time and ask the question - what are the benefits of listening?
In business, listening is the best way to strengthen teamwork, create new ideas and improve customer service. When people listen in the workplace, staff morale goes up and productivity increases because people develop new skills to solve problems so much faster. To become a better listener in the workplace, you must plan to make time to talk to people. Plan to have your conversations in quiet places that are free from all the usual office distractions - phones, faxes, computers, coffee machines. And respect the other person; never answer your mobile phone or look at your watch when you are listening to people.
"In business, listening is the best way to strengthen teamwork, create new ideas and improve customer service."
One other critical skill to improve listening at work is being open to the other person's point of view. Do not interrupt other people before they finish speaking and seek to really understand what they are saying before you give your opinion.
At home, listening is the glue that holds families together. Without good listening, marriages break down and children grow apart from their parents, especially in the teenage years. Becoming a better listener at home involves many similarities to the workplace. Intent is very important, so commit to wanting to listen to your husband, wife or kids and demonstrate that you care by putting down the television remote control or the newspaper.
Remember above all else that listening is a gift, so give it freely and often.
This website contains even more great tips from Shane Toohey.
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