The Lost Art of Listening
What does it mean to truly listen to another person ? Find out how to help your relationships and get more out of communication by fine tuning your listening skills. Let others know that you care enough to give them your full attention, improve personal and professional relationships by learning the lost art of listening !
Improve Your Communication Skills, Become A Better Listener
Listening, often overlooked, is a vital aspect of the human communication process. While speaking is often practiced and emphasized by many, the art of listening isn’t one on which we find people spending much effort. In actuality, listening is easy and can be improved by following just a few simple steps.
Being a good listener means that everything you hear comes directly from the speaker and not from your interpretation of their words. This means that, as the speaker is …
Success By Performing Without An Audience – Is Anyone Listening?
To achieve success it can be important to keep going even if no one seems to be appreciating or even noticing what you are doing. Some people are not appreciated until after they have passed on into the next life. Hopefully, it won’t take that long for the rest of us.
Effective Listening
Effective communication is a vital tool for successful leadership. Being able to articulate clearly, to present and share ideas with others is extremely important. All too often listening becomes the poor relation everyone is busy talking but true communication does not take place unless each stake holder is listening activelty too.
Have you ever been in a room which is full of noise, everyone is contributing but no one really hears.
Be an effective listener – 10 strategies to help you.
Importance Of Listening When Doing A Speech
Try listening to other expert speakers as much as possible during a speaking event especially the guest speaker since they may be able to provide useful tips while hearing them talk. This could also eliminate redundancy and add more bits and pieces when it is time to speak in front of the audience. Also, this is to save a speaker from any embarrassment, since other speakers at some point try to use materials of the same kind.
Aside from listening to the other speakers, try…
Make Their Day
When was the last time someone made your day – or you made theirs? In the national bestselling book, FISH!, by Stephen C. Lundin Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen, the fishmongers at the world famous Pike Place Fish Company in Seattle do it daily.
Communicating on Purpose
Last week I attended an excellent 2-day workshop called “Staying Grounded When on the Spot,” offered by the Public Conversations Project, in Watertown, MA. Geared to help facilitators and trainers manage challenging group moments, I found that the skills applied in a variety of settings, including one-on-one communication “hot spots.”
Arguments Steal Mind Power
Have you ever caught yourself arguing just to argue? It’s a great way to hone your debating skills – and diminish your mind power!
How to Make People Like You by Being a Good Listener
Learn why you should be a good listener and how to become one.
Listen And Hear
Learning how to listen will improve all your relationships, personal and business.