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7 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this short video, Marc Haine discusses humble leadership through the lens of active listening. He explains that humble leaders prioritize understanding others' perspectives and create environments where people feel heard. Haine reflects on his own habit of appearing busy while employees sought his attention, realizing that his behavior signaled that he was too busy for them. He cites a Stephen Covey idea that a problem presented by someone should be treated as important as the person themselves, using this insight to recognize the need to change his listening habits. The monologue serves as a call for leaders to become aware of dominating conversations, interrupting, or dismissing ideas, and to actively work on being present and attentive to their team members.

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Humble leaders actively listen to others. They seek to understand their perspectives and they create an environment where the people feel like they're being heard. If you look back and you find that you dominate a lot of conversations or you interrupt others or you dismiss their ideas, it may indicate that you have some work to do. And I knew when it came down to listening, I remember having in my office employees would constantly come in and say, Marc, can I talk to you? And it's like, yeah, yeah, you can talk to me. And I'd be there on my computer and listening. Yeah, yeah, go on. And I'm still typing my email or whatever. And I realized I was doing this. And so one day I decided, and I think it was, I was probably reading a Stephen Covey book and he said something to the effect of, you know, the problem that somebody brings to you has to be as important to you as that person is to you. And I thought, wow, that's a really good way of looking at it. So I was in this situation where I'm sitting on my computer just typing away and this employee wants to talk to me and I just realized. What am I telling them? I'm telling them that I'm too busy for them?