Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 12 | Issue 577 |
Craig Impelman Speaking | Championship Coaches | Champion's Leadership Library Login | |
MY FAVORITE DYNAMIC DUO: BOOKER T. WASHINGTON AND JOHN WOODEN: "LISTEN TO LEARN" (BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PART FORTY) In his 1902 book, Character Building, Booker T. Washington made clear the importance of listening to people you want to help before telling them what should be done:
"For eight or nine years now it has been our custom to hold here what is known as the Tuskegee Negro Conference. A number of years ago it occurred to some of us that instead of confining the work of this institution to the immediate body of students gathered within its walls, we perhaps could extend and broaden its scope so as to reach out to, and try to help, the parents of the students and the older people in the country districts and to some extent, if possible, in the cities also.
With this end in view, we some years ago invited a number of men and women to come and spend the day with us, and, while here to tell us in a very plain and straightforward manner something about their material, moral and religious condition. Then the afternoon of that same day was spent in hearing from these same men and women suggestions as to how they thought this institution and other institutions might help them, and also how they thought they might help themselves."
The process Booker T. had for helping the poor farmers from all over the South had three basic first steps:
To provide the best assistance: listen first.
Do you listen before you make suggestions?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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Story Time 'Tell us a story,' comes the cry Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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