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of the existing research about listening and emerged with a robust finding: the better listener you are, the more likely you are to be perceived as a leader. It is a correlation , but as correlations go, it is whoppingly big . Additionally, his analysis found that supervisors’ listening skills are positively correlated with employee job satisfaction, commitment, and trust, and negatively correlated with employee burnout.
Listening is far harder, and far more learnable, than it seems. Gadsby’s special gives us the chance to practice the kind of listening we should be doing with voices which are underrepresented, underheard, underrated, and/or underpaid. Consider a recentby the Human Rights Campaign which found that 46% of LGBTQ employees remain closeted at work, suggesting how deeply we are failing our colleagues when it comes to listening.
In the case of Gadsby, she is a gay woman who does not conform to conventional gender expectations and has been the victim of a violent, homophobic assault. Plenty of pain in those experiences, but for a comedian, pain is raw material for a routine, including the ubiquitous coming out story. But, midway through her 70 minute comedy routine, Gadsby makes an announcement. “I am giving up comedy,” she shares.
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