Listening Skills
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Monday, February 1st, 2010Can you lend me your ear?
Most people believe they are good listeners without considering the important differences between hearing and listening. The ability to hear is typically innate, but the ability to listen well is a skill that must be developed and practiced.
Listening means paying attention and making a conscious effort to process [...]
The Listening Quiz
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010The most effective way to improve communications is to become a better listener. After all, 80% (give or take 5%) of effective [...]
Listening Skills: Touch May Influence What We Are Hearing
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010Listening is more than a matter of being “all ears.’’ People can also hear with their skin, according to new research that deepens our understanding of the senses, showing they can work together but also override one another.
Strange though it seems, scientists are finding that multiple senses contribute to the simplest perceptions. People can see [...]
Active Listening: Hear What People Are Really Saying
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009Listening is one of the most important skills you can have. How well you listen has a major impact on your job effectiveness, and on the quality of your relationships with others.
We listen to obtain information. We listen to understand. We listen for enjoyment. We listen to learn.
Given all this listening we [...]
Tips on Becoming a Better Listener
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009When we meet, you and I, you will see for yourself one of my most humiliating traits. No it’s not my acromegaly, my plaid pants, nor my atrocious hairpiece.
No, friend, you will be deeply annoyed to hear me ask you to repeat your name at least twice, and possibly five times, during our inaugural conversation. [...]
Active Listening Skills
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009This 28-slide presentation covers the following:
Purpose of active listeningListening habitsAttending skillsReflecting skillsTest your skillsCommunication barriersQuick quiz
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Are You Listening?
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Let us be silent that we may hear each other. As executives, managers, mentors, and team members, our silence can be an incredibly powerful tool. Sure, I like to write a lot about presentations and speaking, but sometimes, allowing silence to fill the room allows for other voices to be heard. Important voices. Those of [...]
What Did You Say?
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009According to Gretchen Neels, a workplace consultant, most people have no idea when they are not listening—or when they are giving the impression to others that they are not listening.
I wasn’t surprised to hear that, having grown up in a family where conversation is more of a competitive sport than a polite interaction. In [...]
How to Be a Good Listener: Empathy
Thursday, July 16th, 2009Empathetic listeners try to hear from the perspective of the sender of a message. Discover how good listeners use empathy with tips from a communications specialist in this free video on communications, dialog and conversations.
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National Day of Listening
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Thursday, as everyone knows, is Thanksgiving, that pinnacle of family bonding, gluttony, and, of course, giving thanks. But did you know that November 28th (Friday) has been designated the National Day of Listening . . .
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