1. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff Bad habits to break ID-ing the important stuff

2. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff

3. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff This is soo boring. I’m hungry… #1: Calling the Subject Dull Using dry and dusty subject matter as an excuse to let your mind wander

4. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff A yellow shirt? Ugh. Bad choice. #2: Criticizing the Speaker Spending valuable time critiquing the way the speaker looks, acts, and talks.

5. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #3: Listening Only For Facts Skipping the main ideas and only recording disconnected facts

6. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #4: Rigidly Outlining Forcing all lectures into an outline, even when the speaker doesn’t present that way

7. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #5: Faking attention Looking attentive even though your mind is anything but focused OMG! I can’t believe she dumped him! Attention: Collection of tensions that can be resolved only by getting the facts or ideas that the speaker is trying to convey

8. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #6: Tolerating Distractions Squirming, talking, or shuffling papers in a way that distracts themselves AND their neighbors

9. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #7: Choosing Only What’s Easy Spending leisure time listening to mindless TV rather than stuff that requires a brain and builds listening skills

10. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff #8: Wasting Difference B/ Speech and Thought Speeds Failing to take advantage of your brain’s ability to move faster than the speaker’s mouth Think 5x faster than Talk 5x slower than

11. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff

12. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff * Repeats the same information * Slows down * Gets louder * Writes on the SmartBoard

13. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff Words and phrase that help listeners understand a lecture

14. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff Today … Our goal is … We’re focusing on… We’ll be looking at…

15. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff There are 3 reasons… Most important... First… Second… Third… I. A. B. II. A. III.

16. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff For example... Because... In order to... Also... I. A. B. C. II. A. III.

17. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff In conclusion... Because... To summarize... From this we see... Signal words give the listener clues about the content of a lecture

18. Today’s Agenda: 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick How-to ID the Important Stuff This is important... Remember this... You’re going to see this again...