Are you a good listener?

Many of us think we are good listeners, but maybe, just maybe, we are not as hot at listening as we think we are. Today, Dr. Guy Itzchakov joins Traci Ruble on the podcast to talk about the subtle art of listening.

Doctor Itzchakov is an assistant professor at the University of Haifa and the Department of Human Services and obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Business Administration at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto at the Rotman School of Management. His focal research has been on the effects of high quality listening on facilitating a change in the speaker’s emotions, cognition, and behavior.  Dr. Itzchakov is also research advisor to Sidewalk Talk.

Listen in as Dr. Itzchakovs shares tips on listening you can use, right now, today, in your own life. 

[03:05] How Traci and Dr. Guy met

[05:14] How Dr. Guy got into listening

[o6:15] The boomerang effect

[12:41] Why don’t we listen more?

[13:41] The enemies of listening

[19:19] How does culture affect listening?

[27:04] Ingredients to good listening

[32:58] Ways of conveying understanding to the speaker

[39:01] Does listening contribute to people’s health?

[44:48] Dr. Guy’s wish

Carl Rogers

• “When someone listens to us, we feel less anxious, because we don’t care anymore, how we look when we say the things we say.” [08:35]

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