A leadership tip for your Thanksgiving meal (AND a chance to win a free, award-winning book!)

If you're in the US, Happy Thanksgiving!  I am grateful for you!

We want to hear from you AND we'll reward you for it.  Listen for the details and a tip to make this year's Thanksgiving dinner conversation go a little more smoothly.

Remember, send your email to [e-mail] with the subject line "Workplace Listening."

Resources:

• Episode 137: The Most Important Collaboration Skill for Work & Life
• Oscar Trimboli's website
• Oscar's podcast: Deep Listening

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Episode Transcript

Teri Schmidt (00:00):
Hey there.

(00:00):
Welcome back to Strong LaterServe.
If you are in the United States,happy Thanksgiving week to you.
And we are not going to do ourregular episode this week due to
the holiday, but I did want tocome on and tell you about
something a little bit crazy andreally exciting that happened.
You may remember back in episode137 that I did titled, The most

(00:24):
important collaboration skillfor work and life I mentioned
author and workplace listeningexpert, Oscar Tromboli and his
research.
Well, just recently he reachedout to me because he would like
to come on strong leader, serveand have a conversation, but he
really practices what hepreaches.

(00:46):
And because of that, he wants tolisten to you.
He wants to hear about what youwant to dig into with regards to
workplace listening.
So is there something that youparticularly struggle with or
situations in which it's hardfor you to listen?

(01:06):
Or do you have questions aboutthe research surrounding
workplace listening?
Or maybe you have a listeningstory where you were able to
Really effectively use listeningto transform a conversation.
Regardless of what it is, Oscarhas offered to provide us five

(01:27):
free copies of his book, How toListen.
This is a great book, it's wonmany awards, and it can be yours
for free.
All that you have to do is sendme an email At Terry at strong
leaders, serve.
com with your question or yourstory or whatever you would like

(01:47):
Oscar and me to dig into.
And the first five people torespond to this, to tell us what
you would like us to talk aboutor share with regards to
workplace listening.
We will send you a complimentarycopy of his book.
So go get in your email now,send it again to terri at

(02:08):
strongleaderserve.
com with the subject line,workplace listening.
I can't wait to hear from you.
And remember, if you're a littlebit concerned about some
stressful conversations at yourThanksgiving dinner table this
year, think about how you canfocus on listening instead of
talking.
It's really incredible what animpact that can have on the tone

(02:30):
of the whole conversation.
Happy Thanksgiving and we'll,I'll be back next week with a
full episode.