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The Power of Strategic Listening Laurie Lewis

The Power of Strategic Listening By Laurie Lewis

The Power of Strategic Listening by Laurie Lewis


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Is Your Organization Designed to Listen demonstrates that listening is an invaluable tool for strategic action that is essential to the success of contemporary organizations. Lewis gives organizations the tools to assess and improve their techniques for listening, including development of how they process and respond to what is heard.

The Power of Strategic Listening Summary

The Power of Strategic Listening by Laurie Lewis

Listening is critical in today's organizations. As recent examples in the #MeToo era and numerous organizational failures and scandals illustrate, the consequences of poor listening in organizations can be significant, and in some cases, catastrophic. Listening is commonly described in terms of ethics, overlooking its strategic value. The book guides leaders and decision-makers to question the listening habits, practices, and infrastructure within their organizations. The author lays out an argument for the benefits and challenges of strategic listening. She also develops a method for internal analysis of listening capabilities and practices, and provides a framework for building and maintaining a more robust listening culture, infrastructure, and set of practices. In order to improve organizational listening, the author argues that we need to do more than improve personal listening skills, we need to design organizations to listen.

About Laurie Lewis

Dr. Laurie Lewis is Professor of Communication at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning book Organizational Change: Creating Change Through Strategic Communication and co-Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication as well as numerous academic publications on topics related to organizational change, collaboration, inter-organizational communication, volunteers and nonprofits, and stakeholder communication. She is the former Chair of the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Her work has investigated how organizations and sets of organizations work most effectively through collaboration, stakeholder engagement, input solicitation, and high quality participative processes.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Power of Strategic Listening and the Risks of Listening Failure Chapter 1: Strategic Listening in Organizations Chapter 2: Obstructions to Listening Chapter 3: Important Contexts for Listening in Organizations Chapter 4: Technology and Listening Chapter 5: Dark Side of Organizational Listening Chapter 6: Appraisal of Strategic Organizational Listening Chapter 7: Building and Maintaining Strategic Listening Appendix A: Observational Guide Appendix B: Interview Guide Appendix C: Questionnaire Item Bank Appendix D: Planning Framework for Enhancing Strategic Listening

Additional information

NLS9781538121313
9781538121313
153812131X
The Power of Strategic Listening by Laurie Lewis
New
Paperback
Rowman & Littlefield
2019-10-16
182
N/A
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