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How can I become an active listener?

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Sean McArdle

Sean McArdle is a master motivator and speaker in the areas of sales, negotiation, strategic planning and personal development. His distinctions about what makes for a successful career and life come directly from his own experiences. His stories will take you on a personal journey from living under a bridge at 25 to negotiating some of the largest printing contracts in the publishing industry at 28. Since 1992, Sean McArdle has written numerous books, tapes and software programs in the areas of sales, strategic planning and personal development.

Sean McArdle's tapes series, LifeMapping: A Thinking Tool for Living Your Life On Purpose, was televised nationally in a 30-minute documercial with host and ESPN Sports Analyst, Joe Theismann. McArdle believes that the key to his success and yours is "the ability to design the architecture of a day that will bring you what you want for a lifetime."

A faculty member of the American Management Association, Sean McArdle delivers more than one hundred keynotes and seminars each year. He has shared the podium with many of today's leading celebrities, thinkers, and achievers. He is a consultant to some of America's leading businesses, including: Lucent Technologies, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Re/Max Properties, and the National Association of Printers and Lithographers.

Sean McArdle is the Chairman and founder of a nationally recognized training company providing seminars and consulting to some of America's leading corporations and the U.S. Federal Government. When he is not speaking or teaching others to teach his material, he focuses on new ways to help individuals take advantage of accelerated learning skills and techniques.

How can I become an active listener?

In this video series, Sean McArdle describes tips for becoming an effective listener.

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Host: How can I become an active listener?

Sean MacArdle: Active listeners go through a process, overtime not overnight; they turn the process into a habit. Once active listening becomes a habit then they do it on what we call a subconsciously proficient basis. Till then, they are pretty much left up to whatever habits they brought into the day where listening is concerned.

I will give you a good example; many times, we will actually listen to our boss whether we will listen to our spouse. Now, in the big scheme of things our values as a human being tell us our spouse is more important than our boss. But, we sometimes get to the point where at home we think we have heard it all from those people we know best. So, we hear but we don t actually listen because we have already attached meaning to that message before. When we get into a situation where knowing what s going on is important, we become an active listener.

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