{"id":956,"date":"2006-01-17T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/you_need_hear_i\/"},"modified":"2006-01-17T22:54:48","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:54:48","slug":"you_need_hear_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/you_need_hear_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I had the experience of participating in a group exercise designed to help me know what people need to hear most.&nbsp; A total of approx. fourteen people were in the group.&nbsp; Seven were seated and seven were standing behind those seated.&nbsp; In sequential order those standing would whisper to the seated what one thing they most wanted to hear growing up, but never did.&nbsp; I want bore you with the entire exercise, but I was awestruck by the repetition of statements.&nbsp; Statements like the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&quot;I love you&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;I&#8217;m proud of you&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;You can do it&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;Don&#8217;t be afraid&quot; <\/li>\n<li>&quot;You&#8217;re special&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The exercise left a mark&#8230;so much so, that I now use this exercise in some of my workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Once again leaders should be in the business of seeing the unseen.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re not telling your people what they crave to hear, then you&#8217;re truly robbing them of vital encouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I had the experience of participating in a group exercise designed to help me know what people need to hear most.&nbsp; A total of approx. fourteen people were in the group.&nbsp; Seven were seated and seven were standing behind those seated.&nbsp; In sequential order those standing would whisper to the seated what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}