Paul Nadeau is a highly decorated former police detective, hostage negotiator and international peacekeeper. He shares the story of how a terrorist saved his life, and why the cost of not listening can be fatal. Learn how to ask the right ques

Teaching the world to listen with Evelyn Glennie

May 8th, 2020 53m 20s

Dame Evelyn Glennie is on a quest to teach the world to listen, to themselves and to each other. Evelyn is an internationally renowned percussionist, remarkably despite being deaf since age 12. She shares the story of an encouraging music teac

Listening to your employees with Geoff Ho

Apr 24th, 2020 54m 43s

How do employee surveys get in the way of listening? How do you listen in face-to-face situations and at scale, to hundreds or thousands of employees? Oscar speaks with Geoff Ho, a renowned director and behavioural scientist. Geoff has worked i

The Four Villains of Listening

Apr 10th, 2020 58m 36s

Which listening villain are you? Once you know, you can’t forget it. 86% of people think they are an above average listener. So rather than thinking about how to listen better, it can be more helpful to notice what bad listening looks like. Mee

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Noticing the world through listening - W2

Mar 25th, 2020 9m 19s

Making a habit of Deep Listening with James Clear

Mar 20th, 2020 42m 41s

How do you create and sustain a good listening habit? James Clear is a world-leading thinker and New York Times Bestselling author in the field of habits and behaviour change. 10 million people per year visit James Clear's website and newslette

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Noticing the world through listening

Mar 19th, 2020 10m 18s

Listening to body language with Susan Constantine

Mar 6th, 2020 33m 17s

Imagine if you had spent your life studying the silent messages you see when somebody is speaking. Susan Constantine is a world authority on interpreting body language and detecting deception. Susan has worked with the US department of defence,

Listen like World Memory Champion Dr Boris Konrad

Feb 21st, 2020 37m 8s

Do you struggle with your memory when you are listening? Our research says, that your memory is one of the top five reasons why people struggle with their listening. Rather than listening, you are trying to remember the name of the speaker or w

The Art of Focus and Listening - Lessons from world champion sniper Christina Bengtsson

Dec 6th, 2019 48m

What does a world champion sniper, a 6 year old boy and a Swedish pig have in common? In this episode we listen carefully to Christina Bengtsson, who has a TED Talk and book on the Art of Focus. What is focus or lack of focus? What should you d

Can you listen while you sleep?

Nov 22nd, 2019 32m 46s

Can you listen while you're asleep? Why do we wake up when someone calls our name? And what exactly is the cocktail party problem? In this episode, Oscar speaks with Dr Thomas Andrillon about listening and sleep. Thomas is a research fellow at

How to get your kids to listen with Dr Justin Coulson

Nov 8th, 2019 47m 32s

We are listening role models for our kids. If our children don’t listen to us, we may need to begin with listening to ourselves. In this episode, Oscar speaks with global parenting expert, Justin Coulson. Father to 6 daughters, TED talk speaker

The myth of multi-tasking: working memory and listening with Professor Stefan van der Stigchel

Oct 25th, 2019 48m 44s

How good is your multi-tasking? Is it a skill you try to work on? On this episode of Deep Listening, Prof. Stefan van der Stigchel explains what happens when you multi-task, and why it might not actually exist at all. An expert in attention, S

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Oct 23rd, 2019 2m 28s

If you would like early access to the Listening Villain quiz, visit www.listeningquiz.com In less than 20 questions you will get access to the questionaire and more importantly what to do about it

A Masterclass in Level One Listening – Listening to yourself with Dr Romie Mushtaq

Oct 11th, 2019 36m 16s

Dr Romie Mushtaq, M.D., ABIHM, is a neurologist whose expertise in Western medicine and Eastern wisdom helps people resolve stress-based illnesses, achieve peak performance, and harness the power of mindful leadership. Dr Romie's discussion wit

The Five Levels of Listening - Listening for Meaning

Sep 27th, 2019 59m 24s

Level Five listening is listening for meaning. It's the difference between listening to the speaker, and listening for the speaker. Recreational listening is listening to the speaker - just the words that they're saying. But when you're listeni

The Five Levels of Listening - Listening for the Unsaid

Sep 13th, 2019 1h 13m

Listening for the unsaid is Level Four listening. It's the ultimate ninja move of a Deep Listener and it sounds counterintuitive. It's moving your orientation away from what's in it for you, but toward the speaker. Help the speaker understand w

The Five Levels of Listening - Listening for the Context

Aug 30th, 2019 1h

Listening for the context is Level Three listening. Context is all about the backstory. It can be the difference between a productive conversation and a frustrating, circular discussion that goes nowhere. Deep Listening is three dimensional: yo

The Five Levels of Listening – Listening to the Content

Aug 16th, 2019 47m 41s

Listening to the content is Level Two listening. But it's more than just the words being said. It's important to understand that what you hear, see and sense together make up listening for the content. Only 2% of us have been taught how to list

Listening to the research

Jul 5th, 2019 44m 38s

In this episode, Oscar and Nell dig into the data on listening with help from researcher Heidi Martin. 1,410 participants were surveyed on listening, and Heidi shares insights both big and small from crunching the numbers. What are our biggest

The Five Levels of Listening – Listening to Yourself (Part 2)

May 24th, 2019 37m 23s

Oscar Trimboli and Nell Norman-Nott explain about noticing when you are distracted. How to notice it and what to do about it. The difference between a distracted listener and a Deep Listener isn’t that a Deep Listener is never distracted. A De

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Please stop surveying your staff

May 13th, 2019 6m 37s

What do you want your employer to do with your feedback? This is bonus episode for subscribers only Deep Listening - The Managers Master Class Prototype request for feedback I am looking for 10 managers who can provide feedback on my course bef

The Five Levels of Listening - Listening to Yourself (Part 1)

Apr 12th, 2019 37m 4s

Listening to yourself is Level One listening. It's the proper preparation, the good ingredients in the recipe of how to listen well to others. In this first deep dive episode into the Five Levels of Listening, Oscar and Nell explore what listen

The Five Levels of Listening - The big picture

Mar 15th, 2019 1h 7m

Listen: to yourself, for the content, for the context, to the unsaid, to meaning. These are the Five Levels of Listening. In this episode Oscar and Nell go through each of the five levels, explaining how they work individually, and as a whole,

Oscar's life of listening

Feb 22nd, 2019 43m 19s

Interviewer becomes interviewee - Oscar Trimboli speaks with Kelly Irving to share the story behind Deep Listening. How did we get here? Oscar shares about his listening through school and early work, how listening helped people understanding o