Whew,
I just typed "costed" in my last post. Oops.

The absence of active listening is a lot like that. Distractions, not paying attention, thinking about what you are going to say next, agreeing or disagreeing with what is being said... Dialog.

Active listening is so fun!
You learn so much!
You can make someone's day by active listening I believe. (cool side effect).
I consciously pull out the active listening tool on a regular basis and am having a blast.
It is a very effective way to get to know anyone better than you did moments before.
After learning about and deploying active listening, I can not imagine not continuing to use it.

Caution:
Seriously.
Even though I can not imagine not using active listening once learning it, I did stop using it.....somewhere over the past several years, it got away from me and I stopped.
There is a lesson here. Not about active listening, but about keeping the practice alive.

Rand did not pay me to say that.

Thanks,
Brock
Everything Counts!