Meetings are very often the worst aspect of corporate or bureaucratic life. Many people believe they can survive by performing at them and some seem to believe meetings are the most important events in their working life. A few are proud if they manage to survive a 50-meeting week, leaving some meetings early so they can go to others, using their smartphone constantly (which is unforgivably rude), and spending a lot of time bowing to the chair and speaking in a low voice to their neighbors.
Or they are the best aspect of corporate life where views are exchanged and challenged and fundamental differences are resolved. When meetings are regarded as places where you can listen to your colleagues and hear what they say they serve a vital purpose in remedying the lost art of listening and of allowing you to hear the alternative viewpoint.
And if you want to understand the process more clearly then try this.

Listening harder improves your memory

The better you are at listening the better you memory will be because you’ll focus more actively on what’s being said. Making fewer notes and paying greater attention will also make you better company.

The more I see you…the more I listen

The most important listening techniqueis to look intently at the person who’s talking to you-most critically look at their eyes and into their eyes because it makes them feel good and it helps you not only focus on listening to them but also on hearing what they are saying.

Listening makes you an advocate for others

By giving positive feedback about your conversations with other they know not only that you were and that you remembered what they said to you, but they can also see how they have won you over. Listeners become the most powerful advocates because they “get” the argument.