Listen to Understand, Not Just to Respond

In his book Building a Successful Career, Rajeev Sethi says, “What we hear or understand when someone speaks to us is largely based on our own experience and background. We here what our mind tells us they have said.”

- VINOD CHANDRASHEKHAR DIXIT

Communication is essential at all levels of management for decision-making and planning. It increases managerial capacity and facilitates control. It has rightly been said that good managers are good communicators and poor managers are poor communicators. Good listening is a resourceful skill to expand the sources of information and knowledge that may be a good cause for you to gain wisdom. Good listening skills can help you become more experienced person than those who lack this habit. Wilson Mizner has said that "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."