The Art of Motivational Listening: Creative Ideas for Effective Leaders

Whats a motivational listener?Executives and lead pastors alike know there are limitations regarding how long anyone will remember anything from a motivational speech or sermon. After six weeks your retention without follow up is around 1 percent. Yet even in todays age corporations continue to put speakers in their budget every year sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. Churches and non-profits do it too; they bring in an itinerant preacher and everyone gets psyched up. Plenty of people are aware that retention is increased dramatically with follow-up coaching. Of course you have to speak occasionally to motivate people but the hard part is budgeting time and space for listening.