Leadership Is Calling

Stop Talking, Start Hearing: How Active Listening Transforms Teams

Leading Edge Teams Episode 44

Are you struggling to get your team on the same page? Feeling like communication breakdowns are holding you back? You're not alone.

In this conversation, leadership experts Heather McGonigal and Barbara Schindler delve into the often-overlooked superpower of active listening and its crucial role in building high-performing teams.

Discover how to:

- Move beyond surface-level communication and uncover the deeper needs and motivations of your team members.
- Build trust and psychological safety by creating a space where everyone feels heard and valued.
- Fuel innovation and growth by embracing curiosity and asking the right questions.
- Turn conflict into collaboration through empathetic listening and understanding.
- Master change and uncertainty by actively listening to your team's concerns and adapting your approach.

This video is packed with actionable insights and real-world examples that you can immediately apply to your own leadership journey.

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As lead Executive Coach and Consultant, Barbara Schindler fully supports clients as they integrate all they learn, bringing it into their roles, their teams, and the company. Barbara has expertise helping others embrace self-leadership and emotional endurance, as they step up to the next level. She delights in seeing others fully experience their own unique leadership gifts. Her superb executive coaching helps facilitate transformation, by increasing the Leaders’ awareness of patterns that are holding them back and revealing opportunities to shift into a space that brings forward greater clarity and success. Barbara has a background in start-up entrepreneurial businesses. She has worked in healthcare, real estate, education, and business. As the COO, she applies her experience to help grow the company, build a united team and shape the future of LET.

As an Executive Coach and Leadership Trainer at Leading Edge Teams, Heather McGonigal enjoys developing leaders to do their very best work while finding fulfillment and achieving the big outcomes their CEOs and teams are driving towards. Heather is always willing to support leaders in any way she can, regularly going above and beyond – as is the standard at Leading Edge Teams. As Program Director she takes great pride in the many facets of the ‘A+’ Leader Development program and is grateful to play an integral role in the program’s content and delivery. Heather believes that behavior really does make all the difference and is thrilled to work with Leading Edge Teams to spread that message.

Leading Edge Teams is a consulting and training company that provides entrepreneurial companies leadership training and executive coaching in groups and one-on-one, online and in person. We have an unparalleled track record of helping businesses achieve massive, sustainable, team-driven growth. Annie Hyman Pratt founded Leading Edge Teams in 2014 based on her unique, decades-long experience as both a successful C-level executive and a highly sought-after business adviser.

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