Listen for Success, at the North Shore Business Forum, Friday, 4/15/2016, Acapulcos, Beverly, Cummings Center

Learn Why Being a Better Listener Makes You More Successful, at the North Shore Business Forum’s Meeting on Friday, April 1, 2016

However, most people are not very good listeners and they are paying a price in their professional and personal lives.

The North Shore Business Forum meets on Friday, April 15 at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. Registration begins at 7:15 AM, the meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30. Admission is $10 at the door, and includes a buffet breakfast. Visitwww.nsbforum.org for more information. Featured speaker Amy Falk of Syndala Life Coaching will explain why improving your listening skills will increase your company’s bottom line, make you a better leader, and enhance your relationships, in and out of work.

Listening is key to the communication process and one of the most important skills we can master. How well we listen has a major impact on our work effectiveness, but the benefits extend far beyond professional and academic settings. Being a good listener fosters better-quality relationships with others, improved self-esteem and even better health and well-being. Fortunately, listening is a skill we can learn, improve, and continue to practice. Amy Falk will focus on the different types of listening, the most common barriers to effective listening, and how we can become better listeners

About the Speaker: Amy Falk of Syndala Life Coaching is a Certified Life Coach who loves working with smart, creative types who have many interests, passions and ideas, but often struggle to start and/or complete them. She has special training to work with adults, college students and teens with ADD/ADHD. Amy received her B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College, completed her formal coach training and certification with the Coaches Training Institute, and completed specialized ADHD Coach Training with JST Coaching. She studied for several years with Rick Carson, author of Taming Your Gremlin, which she found to be a life-changing book and paradigm. Amy is a founding board member and performer with Voices of Hope, an all-volunteer, non-profit organization that uses musical performance to raise funds and awareness for cancer research. Amy is also an artist; see some of her work at Syndala Designs on Etsy and Facebook. She lives in Reading, MA, with her husband, daughter, and two dogs. For more information, contact Amy at amyfalk@syndala.com or visit www.syndala.com.

The North Shore Business Forum, Inc. (NSBF) is a group of small business owners from Boston’s North Shore who meet on the first and third Friday of each month for informal lectures given by business owners on a wide variety of topics. Members give a 30-second introduction of their business at each meeting. All business owners are welcome: future, past, profitable, experienced or beginning. Meetings are from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (registration starts at 7:15) at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. The $10.00 admission fee includes a breakfast buffet. No pre-registration necessary.

Contact: Brett Kirkpatrick, NSBF President, 978-239-6335, Email:events@nsbforum.org.

The “Meeting After the Meeting” Returns!

The North Shore Business Forum is re-instituting the concept of having members share their expertise with other members on an informal basis, in brief, no-cost sessions after its Friday morning networking meetings.

If you are an NSBF member with an interest in offering your own “Meeting After the Meeting” session in the future, please see NSBF President Brett Kirkpatrick at one of our meetings, or email him at events@nsbforum.org .