LISTEN

Listen and hear are two different things even though if translated into bahasa, both means ‘mendengar’. The different between these two words are how well we understand what we heard (or listened).

Listen carefully or hear carefully?

Hear things or listen things?

Listening is one of the hardest skills to master. Listening is important in team work, relationship or even in learning process. Everyone who is not deaf can hear, but not certainly can listen.

Most people can talk, but only few can listen. 

In relationship, when we fail to listen, it will end up badly.

 In learning process, if you fail to listen, you won’t understand what you try to learn.

Same goes to teamwork. Even though you are a leader, you must listen to your subordinates. The quality of a great leadership, one of the most important is listening. Not talking.

If you don’t have a leader in your group, you have to start a discussion with brainstorming, write down every single idea that your group members give.

Brainstorming’s 1^st rules, you can’t criticize other’s ideas. Collect them all and then pick the best one.

Worst case scenario when someone who think he is the best, the smartest member in a group just want to do thing according to him. If you have an idea, which can simplify the work, yes, you may suggest your idea to the group. But it doesn’t mean your group member will accept it.

But what just happen to me recently, one ignorance bastard who thinks he is the leader, the smartest, the chosen one, just refuse to listen to majority, to the clear instruction and do thing according to him.

The instruction was clear, but he refused to listen. The instructor said to do A then B, next C and finally D. but you were too smart to follow the instruction. You start with C then B, then A, then back to B and when the other group already finish, we were still there, arguing about basic thing.

The result? As expected, messy, clumsy and unorganized.

So, even though you were a chosen one back then, that is the past. Already gone. A history. Today, you are no different with the rest of us, an unemployed graduated who join this program to improve our chance to get a job.

Keep that in mind and you have until Raya to learn how to LISTEN.

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