{"id":619,"date":"2008-04-09T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/help-me-with-qu\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T13:47:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T13:47:04","slug":"help-me-with-qu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/help-me-with-qu\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me With Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbatista.com\/\">Ed Batista<\/a> has a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edbatista.com\/2008\/04\/questions.html\">post<\/a> today on asking questions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget in our age of fast marketing and quick hit wonders, that asking questions implies you have a desire to listen.&nbsp; I once read a column by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com\/blog\/\">Marshall Goldsmith<\/a> where he put a couple of individuals to the test on listening.&nbsp; Basically, he asked them to be silent for thirty seconds and not think about anything.&nbsp; As you would imagine, it was a difficult test to pass.&nbsp; But it revealed how effective they would be at listening to another human being without being distracted by a competing set of agendas.<\/p>\n<p>I believe you must examine your heart motivation to determine whether you&#8217;re truly listening. Leadership development, career development, and people development flow from this river.&nbsp; If this quarter&#8217;s numbers are all you care about (your choice, good or bad), then either tell the speaker its not a good time.&nbsp; Anything less is counter-genuine.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to be authentic in the moment, your speaker expects that of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Batista has a wonderful post today on asking questions.&nbsp; It&#8217;s easy to forget in our age of fast marketing and quick hit wonders, that asking questions implies you have a desire to listen.&nbsp; I once read a column by Marshall Goldsmith where he put a couple of individuals to the test on listening.&nbsp; Basically,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-learning","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}