Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind by Nancy Kline (PDF)

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Most people think they listen well, but they rarely do – not at this level. Listening this way is a radical act.The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Nancy Kline describes how we can achieve this, and presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings, solve business problems, create bold strategies, or build stronger relationships, this book offers you a new world of possibilities.From blue chip companies developing high-powered teams to individuals seeking personal growth, a Thinking Environment has come to mean transformation of the highest quality.

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⭐This book was really good, so good I literally had to take notes and start applying what Mrs. Nancy Kline was talking about and so far it definitely has sparked some great conversations with people I talk with on a regular and I highly recommend reading this book.

⭐The methodology taught in this book revealed a new way of leading others that is very powerful. Highly recommended for those who truly wants to develop a supportive leadership style.

⭐I have started using some of the techniques described in this book in large and small meetings with great success. Some of the ideas are very simple to implement and work in groups of various sizes and ages. I keep a list of the main points in the front of my diary so that I can reflect on them before or during a meeting. I will probably refer back to this book regularly in years to come.

⭐This book should be on every executive’s to read list. Practical and yet can take teams in work environments to a much higher and more productive level. Now that’s just the bonus! The real treasure of this book is the message for anyone who faces big decisions or feels ‘stuck’ or who wants to improve how they come across in all sorts of settings, both personal and corporate. A jewel to keep on the bookcase!

⭐This is about the listener giving the speaker time to think. Listening is territory well-covered already, and if you skim the book it sounds either obvious or glib. But her examples reveal that there is way more to this, and I found myself saying “wow” and “huh!” out loud (which I rarely do) and grabbing for my pencil time and again.

⭐Insightful and compelling as experiences with enabling the devleopment of teams and group dynamics assist leaders in growing future leaders and allowing the best in each of us to emerge.

⭐Even during reading this book I noticed profound ways in which the thinking environment was naturally creeping into my life. I will need to reread this to study more precisely these tools to employ in my life and in my work. Life changing tools for all facets of life.

⭐Very very useful insights and principles. We often don’t take the time to think or give opportunity to others to think. This book illustrates the dire effects of this and provides excellent guild lines and practical advice

⭐A colleague told me about this book and I bought it to read up on the concept. Like all great theories it’s so straightforward and obvious you wonder how you could have not realised it before. But since reading about thinking environments I’ve practiced some of the techniques in conversations with family and at meetings and have found they really make a difference in opening up the conversation. I’ve also done one structured ‘thinking partner’ session with my colleague to find the solution to a problem each of us had. We allocated half an hour each and followed the six steps of the ‘thinking partner’ technique. It was very powerful in releasing all sorts of ideas and more was achieved in that half hour than by weeks of puzzling over the issue. Would highly recommend.

⭐There is a lot of practical wisdom in this book which describes how we can help each other to think better. It describes a technique which might nowadays be called a form of coaching. It focuses very much on listening – and what I liked was that we talk a lot about the importance of listening, this book really describes how to do it, and how by doing this we can help each other to identify our limiting assumptions and do release our inhibited thinking.A few niggles: the author occasionally conflates not thinking with not having the confidence to say what you have thought. There is a little peripheral material in the book which does not add to main approach. Finally, I think this is a really good approach, but I don’t quite see it as the solution to everything which you slightly get the sense the author does.Nevertheless a really worthy read from a true expert guide written with a lot of love.

⭐In today’s world frenetic world we are not creating the right environment or social conditions for the human mind to think effectively or creatively.The 10 principles of the ‘Thinking Environment’ is offered as a way to counteract to remove blockages to the thinking process both as groups in meetings and as individuals.It starts with the premice that everyone should be given time that everyone be given time to think out loud and be respectively listened to. That’s where I the best ideas came from.I shall definitely try and implement some of these ideas in my work going forwards especially when chairing meetings.

⭐Having spent a couple of decades working with teams on strategy and strategic thinking,I know that the value of thinking and listening is significant. A friend of mine who is a coach,recommended that I take a look at what Nancy Kline has to say on listening. This book is atreasure and certainly one to go back to repeatedly.I liked the way the writer first stated the process that she and her team developed over time,with many clients. Refining and improving what became a ‘Thinking Environment.’ The book isthoughtfully and logically constructed, with countless gems of advice and sufficient underlyinglogic and anecdotes to make the implementation of the process believable and understandable.I like the way the Thinking Environment is explained to be applicable in a variety of circumstances.Making it a means to use anywhere and any time. With toddlers, teenagers, boardrooms and inparliaments, all.Quite simply the book shows how to unlock assumptions that hamper our decisions and activities.This listening process helps to change our behaviour and consequently our results. Everyone isable to learn this practical model. Some of the steps involve: Listening without interruption andjudgement, Allowing the Thinker to release all their ideas, Checking what the Thinker would liketo achieve, Identifying assumptions with questions and then writing down the Incisive ones. Thevalue of positive reinforcement is explained well and should convince even the cynics amongst us.I don’t wish to tell any of the writers story as this could best be known from reading the narrativeourselves. That said, I do feel that people in the services industry, particularly consultants, wouldbenefit from this book as it embodies a tried and tested process.The Listener leverage’s off the Thinkers ability to think for themselves. A simple concept,but not easy to master relentlessly. Life throws us many challenges and many relationshipsand there is no doubt in my mind that this book would enhance many aspects of our respectivelives. I am grateful that my friend introduced me to this book as I intend to start paying attentionto my listening and thinking skills because of it. I confess that I enjoyed the book so much that Ihardly put it down from beginning to end.While I do understand the value in repeating the application of the principles on variouscircumstances, I did on a couple of occasions feel that there some unnecessary repetition.This is a minor criticism and did not detract in any way from the value of the content.Could a Thinking Environment change the way we do things and improve our world? Startingwith our families, moving onto friends, firms and the future – certainly. I hope many more jointhis credible thinker in improving our legacy. I liked this book and recommend it to anyone whowants to save time, improve relationships and get better results.

⭐I’ve purchased this book to help me improve my professional coaching. I am familiar with Kline’s work and have read articles by her and watched some interviews with her. This book is really helpful and breaks down the thinking environment, the importance of this and how you can work to set it. I like Kline’s work as I feel she breaks things down simply and doesn’t over complicate concepts. It’s an accessible and helpful book.

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