1. Is the Audience Listening? Are “You” Listening?
Active Listening
Is the Audience Listening?
Are “You” Listening?

2. Hearing
I Heard What You Said?
Hard of Hearing or Hard of Listening?

3. Active Listening How to play an “active” role in listening.
Examples of being an active listener.

4. Active Listening
Getting Off Track

5. More complications to listening?
Active Listening
More complications to listening?

6. Active Listening
Getting It ALL Moving?

7. Active Listening Skills To Learn Listen Give Time Restate Summarize
Ask Questions

8. You’re Life Could Depend On It!
Active Living
Beyond Listening
You’re Life Could Depend On It!

9. Listening Etiquette
Arrive on time and get settled before the speaker is introduced and begins talking.
Wait until the speaker is finished to open your book bag, purse, or briefcase. Further, do not gather your belongings until the talk is completed.
Go easy on the perfume. Some people are allergic to cologne, smoke, and after-shave.
Feedback to the presenter must be constructive. If you have been asked to provide feedback, consider carefully the positive aspects of the presentation and your recommendations for enhancing it in the future.

10. Listening Etiquette
Do not enter or leave the room during a presentation.
Turn off all pagers, cell phones, and beepers. If you must receive an incoming message, please turn it to vibrate.
Never eat while a speaker is talking. Wait until the presentation is complete.
Show that you are listening by facing and looking at the speaker.

11. Difference between hearing and listening
There is a world of difference between hearing and listening. A hearing specialist may, through therapy and devices, enable sounds to become more audible to the human ear. But these kinds of actions have no influence on a person's listening ability. Hearing is a physical process. Listening is a cognitive, emotional skill.

12. Corollary of Sight
The sense of sight offers a corollary to understanding the difference between hearing and listening. Eyeglasses may enable a person better to see a signal flag. But, that same person may not understand the message being sent by those waving flags.

13. Understanding
Understanding is one outcome of the skill of listening. In other words, you may hear what another person is saying, but you may not understand. Understanding is the most basic product of listening.

14. Empathy
Persons in counseling professions place a high premium on the ability of a counselor to empathize with a client or patient. Counseling 101, whether secular or pastoral, posits that listening is the key to subsequently establishing a level of rapport that leads to a relationship of trust between persons.

15. Paraphrasing
You may be able to listen and, subsequently, understand another person's story of a life experience. This may even lead to a significant level of empathy on your part toward the other person, but it is not enough. You need to convey to the other person that you have listened to him. The principle way of accomplishing this is to paraphrase (not mere parroting) what you believe the other person has said, letting him know you've listened.

16. Learning
When you are talking (unless you're asking a question), you are only sharing what you already know. You never learn until you shut up and listen.

17. Conclusion & Questions?
Active Living
Conclusion & Questions?
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.” – Albert Einstein

18. Active Living
Thank You!