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How to Be a Great Listener | Maegan Stephens, Nicole Lowenbraun | TED

Have you ever left a meeting thinking: everyone talked, but nothing was achieved? Chances are that people were listening to each other, just not in the same way. Listening experts Maegan Stephens and Nicole Lowenbraun unpack the four different ways to listen, sharing a practical framework that could change how you respond, build trust and…

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Have you ever left a meeting thinking: everyone talked, but nothing was achieved? Chances are that people were listening to each other, just not in the same way. Listening experts Maegan Stephens and Nicole Lowenbraun unpack the four different ways to listen, sharing a practical framework that could change how you respond, build trust and get results — starting with just one simple question. (Recorded at TED@BCGon October 23, 2025)

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31 Comments

  1. @rohanahir2149

    March 30, 2026 at 11:02 am

    🤌🏼

  2. @NitishVerma-i7t7j

    March 30, 2026 at 11:03 am

  3. @IamnotJokic

    March 30, 2026 at 11:08 am

    All these talks are so performative it makes me wonder if these are to help the audience or the speakers who crave attention.

    • @LazerJund

      March 30, 2026 at 11:46 am

      It’s just… their style of speaking… That’s all dude. It’s a written script, that’s normal

      You don’t have to watch the ones you don’t want to!!

    • @doogieham

      March 30, 2026 at 1:00 pm

      So, what improvements would you suggest? How would you do this TED Talk differently?

    • @WoodenWizard

      March 30, 2026 at 3:37 pm

      these two people are frauds.

    • @KIndustries1000

      April 2, 2026 at 12:55 pm

      If they weren’t as spirited as they are and just lectured, people would be on them for being too dull and uninteresting. Delivery is a big component of holding the audience’s attention.

  4. @misiafridmann

    March 30, 2026 at 11:10 am

    If migraine were a person.

    • @cemtv931

      March 30, 2026 at 3:20 pm

      😂😂😂

    • @WoodenWizard

      March 30, 2026 at 3:38 pm

      you just need to be in anti-migraine listening mode.

  5. @jf-jx4ym

    March 30, 2026 at 11:11 am

    Someone broke dem out of a Chicken coop im pretty sure. Dont adapt to bs.

    One Can actively listen and create abuse around you.

    Dont forget to send the bill. Forcefully.

  6. @yasir_javed

    March 30, 2026 at 11:17 am

    Assalamualaikum every viewers❤

    • @chingizkarimov

      April 1, 2026 at 3:27 pm

      Molecular salam

  7. @K4R3N

    March 30, 2026 at 11:22 am

    Glad I’m almost retired, had enough of this. Good luck to the rest of you.

  8. @LazerJund

    March 30, 2026 at 11:47 am

    Pretty good talk, something I needed to hear actually. Happy it’s not another AI talk 😂❤

  9. @oKOMAPo

    March 30, 2026 at 12:12 pm

    Carer, adhd, adhd, normie

  10. @user-kq2tc5hy5g

    March 30, 2026 at 12:13 pm

    with such short fuses and tempers, I bet they both struggle to keep men

    • @simonsaysthis9581

      March 30, 2026 at 12:15 pm

      Shame on you

  11. @TardigradeTough

    March 30, 2026 at 1:58 pm

    I miss the old days when Ted had interesting thought provoking evidence based topics then it went woke and we end up with garbage like this👆

    • @Mali_abhay

      March 30, 2026 at 11:47 pm

      Are you OK 😂

    • @TardigradeTough

      March 31, 2026 at 12:09 am

      ​@Mali_abhay smashin thanks how about yourself? Although the weather could do with improving here what’s it like where you are?

    • @Sareaesque

      April 1, 2026 at 11:23 am

      tf are you on about? Have you actually looked at the talks from 20-30 years ago? If you go on to the channel videos and sort to oldest the first videos ever uploaded to this channel are;
      If I controlled the Internet | Rives,
      Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes | Richard St. John,
      Dean Ornish: The world’s killer diet

  12. @WoodenWizard

    March 30, 2026 at 3:36 pm

    thisis totally inane. how am I going to remember all these types of listening? What type of listening am I supposed to use while listening to this tedtalk? I AM LOST

  13. @stefvi

    March 30, 2026 at 9:05 pm

    This is a lot of information to digest and hard to follow with this little dialogue they have going on. Keep the “employee” and dress her in a bright orange color and I think she’d have an awesome presentation and easier to absorb.

  14. @heyyoojuliii

    March 30, 2026 at 10:43 pm

    Buuut, how “that” can be so matches????? 2 times a day practices or a hundred times daily-rooted-life practices????? Well…XD

  15. @anigrig1719

    March 31, 2026 at 5:22 am

    Hey leader out there – if you do not know how to deliver a talk concisely and rambling about for a long time, I am going to interrupt you.

    I also hate meetings, where everyone conforms.

  16. @AikelJoseph

    March 31, 2026 at 12:11 pm

    i am messi

  17. @amyb639

    March 31, 2026 at 3:23 pm

    This makes so much sense! Thankyou.

  18. @DimitriTechOfficial

    March 31, 2026 at 9:48 pm

    TF IS THIS CAPITALIST GARBAGE

  19. @kbietten

    April 1, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    thank you for such a great speech

  20. @ChoSenJuDaHiTeSs_TheSHEMiTeSs

    April 2, 2026 at 12:28 pm

    *🎯**2:02** Most Doctors Are Active/Immerse Listeners & HEALER RNs Are Naturally Adaptive/S.A.I.D. Listeners Which Is Why We Usually Know Hospitalized Patients Better To Heal Them❣️*

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