Information
- Audience Engagement
- Biography
- Books
- Conversation
- Introducing Oscar
- Listening Assessment
- Media Appearances
- Photography
- Pronunciation
- Recording Equipment
- Scheduling an event, show, or recording
Audience Engagement
Listening happens before, during, and after the conversation.
I love to role model what I teach. Therefore, how do we listen to the audience before the recording? Previous hosts who have been open to experimenting with this invitation are pleasantly surprised with their audience’s questions about listening.
If you want to use your newsletter and social media channels, you can pose a version of these questions to your audience. If you think it’s an appropriate incentive – I would be happy to offer five complimentary paperback copies of how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace – sent to your postal address.
One of the best ways to role model listening is to ask the audience questions before the recording. Some hosts announce the interview on prior shows, ask via email or social media.
I’m speaking with a global expert on Workplace Listening – Oscar Trimboli
- what do you struggle with when it comes to listening?
- what would you like to ask?
- do you have a listening story or question you would like to share?
Past hosts have used one or a combination of these methods to collect questions;
- Add one or more of the question(s) to existing phone calls to clients or colleagues or co-workers
- Email the selected question(s) to their newsletter list
- Simple survey form using Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Typeform, VideoAsk
- Create Poll questions via Social Media.
When the host reads back the selected question and the name of the person their question, the audience listens differently as it might be a pattern break in your format.
Please let me know if this is an experiment that you might be open to exploring.
Biography
| Words | Introduction |
| 23 | Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador community, Oscar Trimboli is on a quest to create 100 million Deep Listeners in the workplace. |
| 66 | Oscar Trimboli is an award-winning author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker.
His third book is how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. |
| 92 | Oscar Trimboli is an award-winning author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker.
His third book is how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. |
| 170 | Oscar Trimboli is an award-winning author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker. Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace.
Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the people they serve – today and more importantly, for future generations. Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens. He is the author of how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening – Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. Oscar loves his afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren. |
| 199 | Oscar Trimboli is an award-winning author, host of the Apple award-winning podcast Deep Listening and a sought-after keynote speaker.
Along with the Deep Listening Ambassador Community, he is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace. Through his work with chairs, boards of directors, and executive teams, Oscar has experienced first-hand the transformational impact leaders can have when they listen beyond words. He believes that when leadership teams focus their attention and listening, they will build organizations that create powerful legacies for the people they serve – today and more importantly, for future generations. Oscar is a marketing and technology industry veteran working for Microsoft, PeopleSoft, Polycom, and Vodafone. He consults with organizations including American Express, AstraZeneca, Cisco, Google, HSBC, IAG, Montblanc, PwC, Salesforce, Sanofi, SAP, and Siemens. He is the author of how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace, Deep Listening – Impact beyond words and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions. Oscar loves his afternoon walks with his wife, Jennie, and their dog Kilimanjaro. On the weekends, you will find him playing Lego with one or all his four grandchildren. |
Books
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2022 – how to listen – discover the hidden key to better communication – the most comprehensive book about listening in the workplace.
This book has won four awards from the International Book Awards, Australian Business Book Awards, Axiom Business Book Awards, Living Now Book Awards. If you want to be heard, you need to know how to listen. Communication isn’t all about what you say. It’s about what you hear, how you react to it, and respond. In short: it’s about how you listen. And despite the fact that leaders typically spend upwards of eighty percent of their day listening, only two percent of them have ever had training in how to listen effectively. |
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2017 – Deep Listening – Impact beyond words
Over 55% of your day is spent listening; yet only 2% of us have been trained in how to listen. What is poor listening costing you? Do you rush from meeting to meeting, your head buried in the last conversation you had, without time to think of the next? Or feel frustrated with unproductive discussions where the loudest in the room adds limited insight and drowns out everyone else? |
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2015 – Breakthroughs – how to confront assumptions
How does our thinking creates our reality. With a focus on assumptions, perspective and gaining clarity, this book motivates the reader to find alignment – personally, for your team, your organisation and the world around you. |
Conversation
Oscar is comfortable creating a conversation by asking the host(s) questions. The intention is to help your audience notice when you are listening well.
He might comment on your questions through the Five Levels of Listening or Villains and invite your reflection. If your question is longer than eight words or a multi-part question, he will ask for clarification.
Pausing – Oscar will regularly pause between 1 to 3 seconds prior to answering. Some hosts may not be used to it, they may jump in and repeat or paraphrase the question, don’t worry just notice his body language, usually a nod to confirm the question has been understood.
Introducing Oscar
Media appearances
Photography
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Pronunciation: Os kAr Trim-bOH-lee
Listening Assessment
Over 33,000 people have completed the Listening Assessment. A brief and effective way to notice what gets in the way, when it comes to your workplace listening.
If you would like to organize an organization, or group license for the Listening Assessment, we can share it with your employees, listeners, viewers and community before the event and then create country, industry and professional comparison during the presentation.
Recording equipment
With 300+ interviews as a host and guest, I have invested in the technology to make for a great discussion and high-quality audio and video.
Internet
- Primary connection at 270Mbps Download and 23Mbps Upload.
- Backup internet connection at 44Mbps Download and 7 Mbps Upload.
Recording Equipment
- 37 Point Equipment Checklist
- Acoustic treatment to dampen all external and in-room noise
- Lighting
- 45 degrees – Neewer CB60 LED Video Light with Softbox
- 270 degrees – Neewer CB60 LED Video Light with Softbox
- Microphone
- Primary Rode NTG4+ XLR
- Backup Rode Podcaster USB
- Video
- Primary – Front facing – Sony Alpha A6400 w/16-50mm f/3.5- 5.6 Lens – Black Compact System Camera
- Backup – 45 degress – Sony Alpha A6400 w/16-50mm f/3.5- 5.6 Lens – Black Compact System Camera
- Audio
- Backup audio recording Rodecaster Pro II recording in 2304kps WAV which can be exported to
- WAV 48kHz
- MP3 48kHz
- Backup audio recording Rodecaster Pro II recording in 2304kps WAV which can be exported to
Recording Software previously used
Airmeet, Big Marker, Cisco WebEx, Crowdcast, Google Meets, GoTo Meeting, Hoppin, ipDTL, LinkedIn Live, Live telephone call into a radio studio, Microsoft Teams and Webinar, ON24, Remo, Remotely.FM, Riverside.FM, Restream.IO, Squadcast, Streamyard, Uberconference, Zencastr, Zoom Meetings and Webinar
These investments will create a high-quality audio and video for your audience.
PS – If you have read this far you might be interested in The Ultimate Guide to Listening in a Video Conference which includes over 100 pages specific tips and techniques about how to listen before, during and after the recording. We cover three meeting types
- 2 to 3 people – intimate meetings
- 3 to 10 people – interactive meetings
- 20 + people – broadcast meetings
Scheduling an event, show, or recording
You can schedule via this link
Social Media
Oscar’s only social media is LinkedIn
