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Good news: listening is much more fun and energizing than we've been led to believe. No endless conversations- you can interrupt! No solving required-you can relax! No agreement needed-you can be open-minded! Your curiosity, your creativity, and your attention are essential qualities in the fascinating pursuit of understanding other people and having them feel understood. Most books on listening tell you that yes, you should listen better, but they neglect to explain how. Master Certified Coach Lauren Powers shares what she had to unlearn as a below-average listener and her surprising discoveries on the way to Listening Out Loud. In this entertaining how-to guide, Lauren serves up funny stories, wise advice, and ""play date"" exercises to help you: Identify your internal blocks to superstar listening Move from the Me Channel to Level Two Listening Crank up your natural curiosity through asking super easy questions Create conversations you enjoy and impress others with your attentiveness By the end of this mind-expanding book, you'll understand why you listen the way you do, what to pay attention to, and how to think about listening as a power tool. Simply put, listening well makes other people more interesting and less irritating. Wouldn't that be helpful right about now?

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How To Listen Out Loud is an absolutely delightful read. Personal, engaging, intelligent and eminently practical, author Lauren Powers takes us on a step-by-step journey into the vital skills of effective listening and communication. In a world rife with divisiveness, blame and 'othering', this book offers a sound path back to harmony in all our relationships. A must read for anyone who leads, works with or wants to connect more deeply with people. - Karen Kimsey-House, Co-Founder and Board Chair, The Co-Active Training Institute and coauthor of Co-Active Leadership and Co-Active Coaching There are books that offer some interesting learning points and then there are books that really change things. Lauren's brilliant insights into the art and science of listening will transform the way you communicate. This is the go-to book if you are interested in having every aspect of your life (and our world) be better... Listening fixes (almost) everything! Lauren offers what is needed most in our world right now: real tangible tools for positive lasting change. - Rick Tamlyn, MCC, Hay House author of Play Your Bigger Game and founder of Produce U Our wonderful brains offer countless reasons to listen to our own thoughts and brilliant ideas more than to other people. Lauren Powers goes after all of these distractions like an Olympic whack-a-mole player. She nails what it takes to listen well and offers us ways to practice and grow muscle to really listen. If you want your relationships, friendships and work to flourish, this is your next step. - Cynthia Loy Darst, CPCC, ORSCC, MCC, author of Meet Your Inside Team Put this book on your required reading list! Radiant with humor, How to Listen Out Loud delivers the magic formula to transform and evolve personal and workplace relationships using one tool - listening. Buckle up, though; Lauren Powers' ingenious narrative, comical examples, and invitations for skill development teach us a new perspective. One that will help us 'think through, feel through, and live through this life together' in a richer and more textured way. - Zoe-Ann Bartlett, Founder of Intentional Table and author of If I Had a Daughter Lauren Powers has written an essential guide to the one skill we all think we know about but somehow don't do effectively: listening! With her signature humor and deep insight, she teaches us the skills and mindsets we need to connect with each other more deeply, learn and retain information, and ultimately change our perspectives and worlds. I loved every word. Yes, this book will make you a better listener and in doing so, a better human. For that reason, I use Powers' How To Listen Out Loud training inside the DEI programs my organization provides to corporate leaders. - Priya Nalkur, EdD, Founder and President of the RoundTable Institute Lauren Powers has done the impossible: written a book about listening that had me laughing out loud. In this fast-paced, smart, and hilarious book she covers everything we need to know about listening. Why we're not good at it, how we can get great at it, and what is possible when we do. It is a light read that goes deep and has changed the way I listen for good. -- Mary Reynolds Thompson, author of Reclaiming the Wild Soul and A Wild Soul Woman

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Lauren Powers has over 25 years of experience as a renowned executive coach, educator, and change consultant. All over the world, she offers programs in leadership development, team collaboration, and mindset growth. She specializes in powerful, practical, and playful approaches to foster both individual and team growth. Her clients range from big tech and finance firms to small nonprofits, government agencies, and entrepreneurs. From early childhood, Lauren has been on a quest to understand how humans think, communicate, and make decisions. That fascination led her to earn three undergraduate degrees and a master's from her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, but she didn't stop there. Since 1998 Lauren has been on faculty with the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) and leads the curriculum for training people to become professional coaches. She then went on to become a Master Certified Coach, a designation only 4% of all accredited coaches have achieved.For Lauren, identifying interpretations, assumptions, and unconscious beliefs are where true transformation begins. Her first book, The Trouble with Thinking, explores how our perceptions create our realities and, once that awareness is gained, how we can shift to create new possibilities.Lauren's bestselling Udemy course on Active Listening has reached a global audience of over 50,000 students and inspired her to write her new book. In How to Listen Out Loud, she offers a playful approach to improving listening skills and invites readers to discover how intriguing our fellow humans truly are.Please visit HowToListenOutLoud.com to learn more or connect with Lauren.

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