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  1. How to Conduct a Successful Listening Tour

    A listening tour is a scheduled meeting or block of time that can be used by teammates or management to garner a deeper understanding of their teams thoughts. This process is used to get interpretations, insights, and perceptions from a variety of stakeholders in an attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the business. ... meaning it's ...

  2. How to Conduct a Listening Tour

    A listening tour is a terrific opportunity for the organization to get to know you and for you to get to know the organization. People really do want to know who you are and what you are about—even if they've worked with you for a long time. To be successful, you'll have to be confident, open, transparent, vulnerable, and present—a tall ...

  3. The Power of a Listening Tour

    The Power of a Listening Tour. Taking time to hear employees' concerns and ideas can help new managers and company divisions work through organizational change. Anytime Geno Cutolo takes on new ...

  4. Listening Tours: Not just for new leaders

    A listening tour allows you to identify such systemic problems and find solutions that resolve many disparate problems at once. Looking at the above list of benefits, there are many times when I ...

  5. Six Keys to a Successful Listening Tour

    A listening tour is a set period of time where the new manager meets with as many key stakeholders as possible to ask questions, hear concerns, identify barriers, and build rapport. The goal of the listening tour is very simple- just listen. But a listening tour is most effective when it is approached strategically.

  6. Listening Tours: A powerful leadership learning tool

    Listening tours are useful to both gain critical insights from the field and support people in removing any obstacles they may have to safely and effectively do their job. Ultimately, listening tours represent an incredible opportunity for leaders to gain precious information and authentically demonstrate their care and concern for people.

  7. Listening Tours: A Strategic Approach to Leadership

    A listening tour would have allowed Alex to connect with the employees, understand their concerns, and uncover their genuine challenges. Even more, by involving the employees in the problem-solving process, Alex could have gained their trust and buy-in, creating a stronger foundation for implementing the necessary changes. ...

  8. New Managers: Take a Listening Tour to Understand Your Company's Strategy

    New Managers: Take a Listening Tour to Understand Your Company's Strategy. When you manage a team, your strategies and goals must align with the priorities of those above you. If you don't ...

  9. What is a Listening Tour & How Can It Help Amplify Authentic Team

    A listening tour is more than just a series of conversations; it's a commitment to understanding the core of your team. The benefits are tangible: a more engaged team, improved communication, and a culture of trust that can create more success overall in your organization.

  10. The Ultimate Listening Tour

    A listening tour is a series of intentional interviews with your colleagues to gather information, insights and ideas on how your role can be most effective. A listening tour allows the team to contribute their perspective in a crucial time where a new enablement leader will be defining strategy - something that should never be done in a vacuum

  11. How To Take a Listening Tour

    4. Listen. This is a listening tour, not a political rally. You must listen closely to what your colleagues are saying in every conversation. Probe their responses to get to the heart of what they are telling you, but do so respectfully. Ask a question and stop talking. Be attentive and active in your listening.

  12. Twenty-one Listening Tour Questions

    A 'Listening Tour' is a way for leaders to engage their organization in a conversation. The members of a leadership team or committee agree on a set of questions and commit to having ...

  13. Guide: Evaluate your culture: a "Listening Tour"

    Step one of a successful listening tour is to create a sense of clarity and safety around what you're doing and why. Keep in mind that there are power dynamics at play and if you're in a senior-level role there will be a power differential that will impact the conversation. Consider sharing your questions with folks a few days before the ...

  14. Want to Be a More Effective Leader? Conduct a Listening Tour

    Ideally, the person conducting the listening tour should then organize the information gathered and report back to those interviewed, along with a statement of action to be taken or avoided as a result of the listening tour. Of course, the very term "listening tour" suggests it's something done once: Make the rounds, sound out the troops ...

  15. Why you need to take a listening tour

    Listening is a great way to do that. Especially if you're the newest member of the leadership team, going on a listening tour can be a valuable way to build relationships and determine your ...

  16. How A Listening Tour Can Change Your Workplace

    What is a listening tour? In my definition, it is a series of 60-90 minute focus groups on strategy with the CEO and small groups of staff within an organization. Ideally, everyone participates and colleagues are randomly assigned to groups so the process helps not only with strategic discovery, but also in building cross-divisional ...

  17. How To Conduct a Listening Tour

    A listening tour is a series of facilitated discussions with key constituents aimed at collecting valuable information about experiences, perceptions, and needs. From parents to teachers, each member of your school community has valuable insights that can help drive district success. Give your community the opportunity to inform school ...

  18. Why a Listening Tour Should Be the First Thing You Do as Manager

    A listening tour is as simple as it sounds—but it takes a lot of active planning to effectively execute. Within the first 30 days of settling into your new management role, you will want to set up some individual one-on-one time with all of your direct reports. This effort is essential, even if you feel like you know these colleagues as peers.

  19. How a Listening Tour Improved Deliverables and Communication

    The listening tour presented a broader understanding of the survey. In addition to obtaining candid perspectives and feedback, the experience. highlighted key strengths of the survey we could emphasize in outreach. revealed a range of ways people use the data and the stakeholder groups they engage while doing so.

  20. Conducting a Listening Tour to Align With Stakeholders

    A listening tour is a scheduled meeting or block of time that can be used by any one teammate or even a new manager to help gain a deeper understanding of the thoughts, needs, and interests of their colleagues and various stakeholders. The tour is geared toward learning interpretations, insights, and perceptions from a variety of sources in an ...

  21. When You Don't Have 90 Days to Listen

    When You Don't Have 90 Days to Listen. by. Katie Smith Milway and Shazeen Virani. January 17, 2012. We've all heard of the 90-day listening tour that executives should take when they start a ...

  22. Listening Tour

    Listening Tour. A "listening tour" is a strategic series of meetings, events, or visits conducted by a politician or candidate to gather input, concerns, and perspectives from constituents or specific groups. Often staged prior to launching a campaign or introducing major legislation, the aim is to engage directly with the public, giving ...

  23. 2024 8-Ball Classic Purple Tier (SL7) Final

    2024 8-Ball Classic Purple Tier (SL7) Final Final match of the 2024 8-Ball Classic Purple Tier (SL7) featuring Nayan Tamrakar from San Diego, CA VS...