{"id":57,"date":"2012-04-04T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/when-you-listen-do-you-hear-everything\/"},"modified":"2012-12-17T00:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T00:02:10","slug":"when-you-listen-do-you-hear-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/when-you-listen-do-you-hear-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"When you listen do you hear everything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Listen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-339\" title=\"Listen\" src=\"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Listen-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn&#8217;t being said.&#8221; Peter Drucker.<\/p>\n<p>These are wise words to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Hearing&#8217; what is not being said is a skill\u00a0that develops over a period of time.<\/p>\n<p>So how does one develop this skill?\u00a0 We all do it to a certain extent already, and might not realize it.<\/p>\n<p>It involves the processing of data. Take what is said, and ask yourself what it means. By determining\u00a0insights to the information you begin to hear what is not being said. One of the keys is to develop good listening skills.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t interrupt<\/li>\n<li>Be focused on the speaker\u00a0&#8211; do not let yourself be distracted<\/li>\n<li>Note key points of discussion<\/li>\n<li>Ask for clarification when unclear about what has been said &#8211; leave nothing to chance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make\u00a0a habit of being a better\u00a0listener and\u00a0you will by default become better at hearing what is not being said.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn&#8217;t being said.&#8221; Peter Drucker. These are wise words to be sure. &#8216;Hearing&#8217; what is not being said is a skill\u00a0that develops over a period&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/when-you-listen-do-you-hear-everything\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-management","category-business-skills","category-selling-skills"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}