What To Say When You Want Someone To Listen

Making sure your voice is heard

Getting someone to listen to you properly means ensuring that they focus all their attention on you. So you need to choose your moment carefully. Here's how to secure full engagement and communicate effectively.

Summary of learning messages

• Get the other person’s undivided attention
  You are wasting your breath if the other person is preoccupied

• Choose your moment carefully
  Don’t expect the other person to drop what they are doing

• Agree a time to talk
  Get commitment to ensure your conversation is worthwhile

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With short videos, podcasts and interactive activities, this is a treasure trove of valuable tips, phrases, techniques and models your organisation can make available immediately, to everyone, for a simple corporate-wide subscription. Topics covered include management and leadership, communication and teamwork, culture and wellbeing, and personal effectiveness.