Tim Winkler reports on new ideas to keep HR ticking over

listen more, achieve more

That quiet person in the corner itching for the staff meeting to be over may in fact be your most valuable researcher.

Effective academics are focused more on listening than talking, according to Bailey Sousa and Alexander Clark, executives in a Canadian university who also moonlight as consultants on how to create effective, successful and most surprisingly, happy academics.

They have an article on the importance of listening, with practical tips to commit to focusing when someone else is speaking, ask good questions and reflect on the answers.

The advice is eerily familiar, dating right to Mrs Stewart’s Prep class on a hot February morning, but nonetheless valuable.

If you don’t know someone from your team staff meeting who could do with a copy of the article anonymously sliding into their inbox tomorrow morning then you are a rare individual indeed.

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