Active listening not only builds and strengthens relationships, but it will make you a more valuable and attentive worker.  You focus on the speaker and what they’re saying. That’s a huge skill to have, whether you’re a friend or a leader. It’s not supposed to be easy; it takes work to be an active listener.

What drives you? Family? Job? Money? It doesn’t matter what the drive is, as long as you have it. In any profession or any career, you need the thing that gets you out of bed…