We spent
some time listening to all of the speakers in the range and we're impressed with the quality.
Not exact matches
The most effective salespeople, for instance, have been shown
to only talk about 30 percent
of the
time — the rest is spent
listening.
I ended up coming
to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks,
listened to the entirety
of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car
time with purpose.
While the technology has been around for some
time now, according
to Howard, «the insights brands can derive from
listening have more recently been recognized as a driver
of strategic decisions.»
«It's the first
time people with an iPhone will be able
to pick up the phone normally, or just
listen to music, without any additional devices,» said Jan Janssen, senior vice president
of research and development at Cochlear, in an interview.
As the man attempted
to lead her down an even darker block that she'd known
to be dangerous, she decided
to listen to her intuition this
time, calling out for help
to a nearby group
of people before sprinting away from him and getting home safe.
Companies housing members
of this up - and - coming generation
of workers are poised for marketing success if they take the
time to listen.
He worked on the Prince Edward County winery he co-owns with McLean and McLean's wife, actress Sonja Smits, and
listened to supplicants congratulate him on the
timing of his corporate exit.
If you're having a hard
time with customer service, try
to get a better understanding
of the situation by
listening to customer feedback.
But the thing that makes us human are those
times we
listen to the whispers
of our soul and allow ourselves
to be pulled in another direction.»
Empathy can be a powerful antidote
to despair, argues StoryCorps founder David Isay in this talk, where he recommends we all make
time to deeply
listen to the stories
of others.
When we really focus and
listen to what coworkers, clients, and our bosses are telling us in real life, we have a better chance
of executing correctly the first
time and encouraging all
of these people around us
to trust us.
The next
time you
listen to your favorite speaker, be mindful
of the way he or she delivers a speech.
People share a lot
of information, and if you take the
time to listen to what they are saying, you will be in the best possible position
to have meaningful conversations with the right people, and offer «just the thing» they want or need at that moment.
It's my
time to listen to NPR and find out how world events might be affecting our travel business,
to mediate on the beauty
of my drive down the Merritt Parkway in Connecticut,
to make a few personal calls, and
to reflect on how grateful I am for what waits for me on the bookends
of my drive.
By 8:30 a.m. (the
time I usually ended up rolling out
of bed), I had read several chapters
of a good business book,
listened to part
of a podcast, spent
time in prayer, done some P90X Yoga, and worked on a side - project that I'd been «too busy»
to work on for years.
In either case, they didn't have
time to listen to every vendor regale them about the quality
of its products, Narodick learned.
And for Roberts, «
listening to problems that span all history, art, culture, and
time is a perfect way
to reset your perspective on the problems in front
of you on a given day.
As part
of our pre-course paperwork, we'd completed a 360 - degree evaluation, wherein we'd rated ourselves in response
to questions about habits and performance, about our
time management, our self - awareness and trustworthiness, our ability
to accept criticism, our ability
to listen, and dozens more items.
It now remains
to be seen if NERC will
listen to the public and christen their ship with, in our opinion, the greatest name
of all
time.
During that
time my ritual includes trying
to catch up on my never - ending flow
of emails and
listening to Blinkist, a site that offers books transformed into 15 - minute audio snippets.»
He told Cuban that anytime they started a meeting, Cuban was
to write the word
LISTEN at the top
of his notebook and reference it throughout their
time together.
A good rule
of thumb is
to listen 70 percent
of the
time and talk 30 percent
of the
time.
Related video: Ken Burns Shares How He Is Able
to Work on Over Six Films at a
Time, the Power
of Listening to His Gut and Why Collaboration Is Key
Every
time he sits down for a meeting or
to listen to a pitch — he writes the word LISTEN at the top of his
listen to a pitch — he writes the word
LISTEN at the top of his
LISTEN at the top
of his page.
Related: Ken Burns Shares How He Is Able
to Works on Over Six Films at a
Time, the Power
of Listening to His Gut and Why Collaboration Is Key
The study found that those who have taken part in mindfulness training were able
to remain focused for longer periods
of time on visual and
listening tasks.
With the charging case, you can get 24 hours
of listening time, though you'll have
to wait for the AirPods
to charge each
time they run out
of juice.
It appears he has the backing
of Mr Gove, who told the Sunday
Times: «You've got
to listen to the public sector pay review bodies.
I
listen to the podcast
to get inspiration from the stories
of other entrepreneurs, but I read his blog for show notes when I'm short on
time.
Parents
of the new crop
of digital natives are struggling
to manage what their children watch,
listen to and play, creating strong demand for better tools
to regulate how much
time and money children spend online — and giving developers whose apps have robust controls an edge in the hyper - competitive business
of digital entertainment for kids.
They take the
time to get
to know the names and the lives
of their employees, and
listen intently
to what the employees have
to say.
«Hit predictor» is when Poleman's team gets a sample
of listeners and has them
listen to a new song over and over again, at least 20
times in its entirety, and then asks them about it — «could you see this being a hit?»
An Edison Research study on the audio habits
of Americans found that podcast listeners are actually «super listeners,» consuming more than one hour and 45 minutes
of audio per day than the average American, and they spend more than 25 percent
of their total audio
time listening to podcasts.
Ultimately,
listening to a podcast should improve your entrepreneurial mindset — otherwise it is a waste
of time.
And the whole
time you are
listening to your body, you're kind
of, hopefully learning
to understand that just because your stomach is empty, does not mean that you are hungry.
Making the
time and taking the
time to listen closely is not only smart business; it's the safest way
to proceed because no one ever
listened themselves out
of a job.
«If you decide prematurely, if you somehow assume that fast decisiveness is the hallmark
of intelligence, it's actually the reverse
of that, it's a hallmark
of stupidity because it stops you giving yourself the
time to collect more information,
to listen to more hunches,
to allow more creative ideas
to bubble up into your mind.
''... we've spent a lot
of time listening to what people using Google + had
to say.
Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes
to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them
to take work
time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues
to spend half an hour
of the workday watching,
listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable
to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead
of their jobs.
Currently, I practice going
to meetings with an open mind and spending more
time listening to people's points
of view without quick reactions.
I will
listen to Nadella give a version
of this speech four
times this week — in Dublin, Paris, Berlin, and London.
If you're the CEO
of a company, and the majority
of your employees feel strongly enough
to band together and bring up their concerns
to you, you should respect them enough
to take the
time to listen.
While TechRax's video posting doesn't suggest it's a joke — the description says the video is «for those who don't want
to get $ 159 wireless AirPods or have
to insert your headphones into an adapter every
time you
listen to music» — his profile and set
of videos suggest he has a long history
of jokingly fiddling with technology.
Meanwhile, top executives spend most
of their
time in internal meetings poring over numbers rather than
listening to employees in research labs, offices, and factories.
He takes the quiet
time to do a number
of things, claiming
to read the papers, exercise,
listen to music, look at email and watch TV all at once.
And while the first phase
of the trial was at
times grueling for members
of the jury - several breaking into tears as they
listened to descriptions
of the chaos near the Marathon finish line - the second phase could be even more so.
«This is a
time for Brussels
to listen to the British people and do what we are all doing, and that is cutting our cloth,» Conservative lawmaker Mark Pritchard, one
of the revolt's leaders, told Sky News.
You need
to spend
time on the site
to just watch and
listen — and avoid importing some
of the social - media habits you've picked up elsewhere.
I'm not alone in having a hard
time hearing what my gut has
to say when I'm already anxious, something a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science supports: researchers from the University
of Basel and the Berlin Psychological University found that anxiety may impair your ability
to listen to your intuition.