Maegan Stephens and Nicole Lowenbraun

Yeah, that'd also be very rude to do your first week at a new job.

Immersed listening is the closest to active listening because there are plenty of times at work where you just need to soak in all the details as long as you actually remember what you were supposed to remember.

But again, immersed listening is just one of the ways you need to listen at work.

What about those meetings where time is running out, everybody is still debating, and somebody's got to make a decision?

Yeah, that is when the person or the group needs advanced listening.

That's listening with a goal of moving people

people, projects, processes, forward.

So that's listening with the mind of, okay, what has to happen next?

Not listening for what's working or not working, that's discern.

Not listening for what do I need to remember, that's immerse.

When you know someone is struggling and they're up against a deadline, you can listen and respond in a way that helps them get unstuck.

And sometimes, sometimes that means you can interrupt them.

Are you shocked we just told you great listeners sometimes interrupt?

Nicole and I were in more of a working session type meeting.

We were putting together a recommendation that we wanted to pitch our executives, and we cared a lot about it.

We really wanted to get it right.

We were working up to the last minute, but something just wasn't clicking.

We were in a virtual meeting, and I ended up with my head in my hands, and I said, oh, Megan, this argument just isn't.

Flip the main points.

Flip the order of the main points.