Faith and Listening

According to John Maxwell and Jim Dornan a "person of influence" has faith in people and has the capacity to listen to them.

Here are some quotes about faith:

1. When you believe in people, the do the impossible.
2. Difficulties seldom defeat people, lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

In last LPG meeting, we shared perspectives on:

1. What is faith?
2. What does it have to do with trust?
3. What does it have to do with prior evidence?
4. Are you someone who grants trust first?
5. Or, do you expect that trust must be earned?

We also discuss the merits of the following techniques to become a believer in people:

1. Believe in them before they succeed.
2. Emphasize their strength.
3. List their past successes.
4. Instill confidendence when they fail.
5. Visualize their future success
6. Put them in a position to experience small successes

A person of Influence...listens to other people. We talked about the following:

1. No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
2. Be impressed and interested, not impressive and interesting.
3. The best way to impress someone is to let them impress you.

The slides we used to trigger our LPG conversations can be found here.