Paige Francis

The Magical Listening Tour Paige Francis

While The Magical Listening Tour briefly explains the importance of adopting listening tours to increase your effectiveness and elevate your position within your business, the magic is in the details. This simple guidebook lays out how to execute on the critical art of listening. 'Nourished listening' is the act of routinely listening to ensure the growth, health and good condition of actions based on shared words. In other words, feed your ears. Make no mistake, while this quick read is aimed at career-focused individuals needing to more successfully dial-in to their people network, nourished listening - or simply listening to understand - is equally useful in parenting, maintaining friendships and life in general. An investment of time in authentic listening on every front-end saves endless hours of frustration on the back-end. And, for those that have built trust only to have it lost due to a missed expectation or a single wonky communication, we know rebuilding confidence after a disappointing experience can be difficult-to-insurmountable. Therefore, continuing the listening tour over time ensures actions and decisions remain responsive to and mindful of changing environments. While the concepts in this book are simple ones, it's important to embrace that simple is subjective. Planning to listen and then actually listening to learn does not come easy to everyone. If the skill isn't innate, it must be practiced, sometimes awkwardly. In those moments, show some grace to those showing up for you and trying something new to be a better partner. In addition, if the struggle is real for you, show some grace for yourself as you learn. Most important things are rarely easy, despite seeming simple.