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Effective Listening

Listening is an action that binds all humans together and is a powerful tool for boosting relationships.

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Effective Listening

Listening is an action that binds all humans together and is a powerful tool for boosting relationships.

Course Outcome

  • How to listen with empathy
  • How to be present
  • How to listen better through questions
  • How to listen remotely

Effective Listening

Listening is an action that binds all humans together and is a powerful tool for boosting relationships.

Course Outline

What is Effective Listening?

  • Effective Listening Overview
  • Effective listening is the ability to actively understand information provided by the speaker, and much more as well.

Empathetic Listening

  • Empathetic Listening
  • The highest form of listening we can obtain is being able to listen with empathy.

Staying Focused

  • Staying Focused
  • It may sound ridiculously simple, but often the reason we fail to reach an outcome is because our focus has wavered.

  • Body Language and Presence
  • When you’re mindful with your body language, you can maintain your own focus and maintain others’ focus on you.

  • Non-Verbal Messages
  • You need to be sensitive to the nonverbal message you’re sending with the shape, position, orientation and arrangement of your whole body and limbs.

  • Don’t Fake It
  • If you pretend to focus, what you’re focusing on is the pretending, not on the person you’re listening to.

  • Show Your Mood
  • Stay focused by staying open and transparent. Rather than fake interest, show your authentic mood.

  • Breathe
  • The quickest way to re-center yourself and maintain focus is with organised, rational breathing, or what’s known as the “square breath”.

  • Repeat and Rephrase
  • Another way to stay focused is to use the technique of repeating or rephrasing what we heard the other person say, before we speak.

The Great Question

  • The Great Question
  • To effectively listen, we need to be willing to stop talking, draw out the other person’s point of view, and really listen to what they have to say.

  • Closed Questions
  • Closed ended questions are designed to get very specific information from the other person.

  • Open Questions
  • Open questions are designed to draw out someone's opinions, feelings, and knowledge

  • Probing and Clarifying
  • Probing and clarifying questions are designed to give us more information on a topic we’ve already been discussing.

  • Summary Questions
  • Summary questions can be a great way to honestly check that you get what the other person is telling you.

Listening

  • During Conference Calls
  • On a conference call participants can’t see you, and you can’t see them. It can be very tempting to multi task.

  • Over the Phone
  • Over the phone, we can’t see or be seen, but listeners can hear when you loose focus.

  • Over Telepresence
  • This film looks at some challenges to overcome when it comes to listening over telepresence.

  • Face to Face
  • Here are some common sense listening tools that can be applied during face-to-face communication.

  • Face to Face - Meetings
  • The same common sense listening tools that can be applied to individual face-to-face communication, also apply to group face-to-face meetings.

Actions

  • Actions
  • Phil Daniels a professor of psychology is credited with devising a process called Start-Stop-Keep that asks some valuable questions.

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