02/21/2025

Hone Your Most Important Communication Skill

That skill is listening

If I ask you to name your most important communication skill, you might answer "public speaking, handling questions or reading people".

That’s because we normally think of communication as outgoing. We think that if we’re transmitting we must be communicating.

That leads to people speaking at one another instead of really listening. It’s become the hallmark of our current social and political environment that people spend a lot more time shouting at one another than listening.

Please select this link to read the complete article from John Millen.