Can You Hear Me Now? Tip: Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. By understanding your personal style of communicating, you will go a long way towards creating good and lasting impressions with others. About Active Listening Good communication skills require a high level of self- awareness. By understanding your personal style of communicating, you will go a long way towards creating good and lasting impressions with others Tip: Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. By understanding your personal style of communicating, you will go a long way towards creating good and lasting impressions with others. About Active Listening Tip: Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. By understanding your personal style of communicating, you will go a long way towards creating good and lasting impressions with others. About Active Listening
Random Facts about Listening Fortune magazine states that listening is the top management for success in business We only remember 25% of what we hear We spend the majority of our lives listening Billions of dollars are wasted each year because of poor listening skills
Who Cares? Good listeners are more popular Good listeners make more money Good listeners make better grades Good listening involves tuning into ourselves as well as others. Listening is a thinking skill
Tip: Good communication skills require a high level of self-awareness. By understanding your personal style of communicating, you will go a long way towards creating good and lasting impressions with others
Speak 120 to 180 wpm Hear 50 words Tune in think Hear next 60 words Tune out Hear next 70 words Think Tune out …..
Passive Listener The listener does not share responsibility, nor does he participate in the communication process
Listening Bad Habits Tune out dull topics Fake attention Yield to distractions Criticize delivery or physical appearance Jump to conclusions Overreact to emotional words Interrupt
Filters that distort Education Biases Attitude Age Experience Emotion Religion Family Physical condition Morals
Active Listening is an intent to "listen for meaning", in which the listener checks with the speaker to see that a statement has been correctly heard and understood. The goal of active listening is to improve mutual understanding
Characteristics of a good Listener Characteristics of active listeners: Spends more time listening than talking Let’s the speaker finish his or her own sentences Let’s the other person finish speaking before responding Allows the other person to speak and does not dominate the conversation Aware of own biases Asks open-ended questions Focuses on what is being said and not what one’s response will be to the speaker
ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE AND ACTIVE LISTENING Content Feelings Process Clarification
Be ready to listen!!!! Be well rested, well nourished and prepared Sit close enough to hear, and position yourself so that you avoid distractions Mentally, leave distractions behind Predict what you might hear. Formulate questions you might hear ahead of time
EFFECTIVE AND ACTIVE LISTENING Effective listening is the listening to the words of the speaker and the meaning of the words. Active listening is a process in which the listener takes active responsibility to understand the content and feeling of what is being said and then checks with the speaker to see if he/she heard what the speaker intended to communicate.
ACTIVE LISTENING SKILLS Check attitude and atmosphere Keep the channel open and avoid short circuits Listening requires response from listener Keep the door open
METHODS TO TEST UNDERSTANDING Parroting Paraphrasing Clarifying
Listening strategies Use your listening spare time effectively -Explore what is coming next - Analyze the speakers message - Review what you have heard -Search for hidden meaning
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