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Honourable Listening Chairman Professor Chennupati Jagadish of Global Listening Centre Receives Prestigious Scientific Welker Award 2107 at Berlin, 18th May 2107. We all are proud of you Sir !

An Essay From Philippa Goranson Associate Director (Health Communication) Global Listening Centre. Listening in health care can be a very complicated matter and concerns many different aspects on health care encounters. Even if one spontaneously asks oneself: is it not the most common sense thing to do? I have been caught up on this topic [...]

There is a joy to giving and it is encapsulated in St Francis of Assisi‘s time lasting quote “For it is in giving what we receive”. There is a particular joy to giving something of ourselves when that gift is needed and appreciated by another. All of us have the very human need to be [...]

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith Advisor, Global Listening Centre. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, world- renowned management and leadership guru and Dartmouth Tuck business professor, has teamed up as Advisor with the Global Listening Centre with effective from February 2 of this year . Author or editor of over 35 books, Dr. Marshall’s newest book, Triggers, is a #1 [...]

Prof. Chennupati Jagadish Honorable Listening Chairman Global Listening Centre The Global Listening Centre is proud to announce that Prof. Chennupati Jagadish has accepted the prominent position as Honorable Listening Chairman of Global Listening Board (Effective as of 4th Feb, 2017). Dr. C Jagadish is a Distinguished Professor, and Head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology [...]

Jennifer Grau Director, Global Listening Centre. The fastest, easiest, and least expensive time to correct a miscommunication is when it occurs. Taking action based on misunderstanding wastes time and money. The more people involved, the more time and money wasted. Undoing these actions adds to the problem, and ….. the original task/issue still needs to [...]

Kay Lindahl, CLP Spiritual listening is at the heart of all relationships. It is what we experience when we become a quiet, safe container into which the speaker is able to express his or her most genuine voice. There is a communion of souls. The way we listen to each other sets a tone for […]

“ We must First Listen ” –  Pope Francis Following is an extract from the message of His Holiness Pope Francis on the occasion of the 50th World Communication Day celebrated on ( 8th May 2016). “Some feel that a vision of society rooted in mercy is hopelessly idealistic or excessively indulgent. But consider our […]

By: Corine Jansen Director & Chair ( Health ) Global Listening Board It was an early sunny day in May when I went to the house of an old lady. She offered me a cup of tea and took a small table. But not to put my tea on but to put the urn of [...]

By: Corine Jansen Director & Chair (Health), Global Listening Board. Most doctors, health care managers and policy makers will say that the patients’ position is central to health care; but ‘We know best what is best for you’ is still a common attitude. Nevertheless, governments of most European countries want more consumer involvement and also many [...]