How to Get Better at Listening, with Bill Mayo
3/5/202623 min
Academy alum Bill Mayo joins Dave to share how he improved his listening skills — both at work and at home.
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First 90 secondsDave Stachowiak· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hey, it's Dave from Coaching for Leaders. Today, I'm bringing you a quick chat about how to get better at really listening. I sat down recently with one of our academy graduates, Bill Mayo, to talk about what he did to begin listening better. Here's our conversation. I'm talking today with Bill Mayo. Bill is an alum of the Coaching for Leaders Academy, and also a plant foreman in the natural gas business. And Bill, I'm so glad to have you here. Thanks for taking the time for this chat.
Bill Mayo· Guest0:38
Dave, thanks for allowing me to come on here and visit with you.
Dave Stachowiak· Host0:41
I'm so looking forward to this conversation and just exploring some of the things that you've done, particularly around listening, because you've made so many really cool shifts in the last year on how you show up as a leader. Before we get into that, though, would you share with folks a bit of just who you are and a bit about your role in your organization?
Bill Mayo· Guest1:04
Sure, sure, Dave. So like you said, I'm, uh, Bill Mayo. I'm the plant foreman for a natural gas company here in the East Texas area. We trade natural gas and send it throughout the, the homes here in, in the East- Eastern part of the United States.
Dave Stachowiak· Host1:19
Cool. You came across the podcast at some point [laughs] in the not too distant past. How did you come across the podcast? Do you recall?
Bill Mayo· Guest1:28
I, I do. So I had been