The ability to listen and prove to the other person that you are REALLY listening is critical to building effective work and personal relationships. Improve your listening skills from these hints, tips and listening skill suggestions.
By Ivy Sea
- Common understanding decrees that hearing and listening are two different activities and abilities. Hearing requires functioning ears. Listening, on the other hand, requires comprehension, minimal distraction and a release from your opinions while the other person(s) is speaking. And then there%u2019s deep listening.
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By NA
- Have you ever thought about how important listening can be? Just consider that we spend 80 percent of our waking hours communicating, and over 45 percent of that time listening to others - spouses, children, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances.
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(Added: 16-Apr-2002 Hits: 767
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By CASAA
- Many people are familiar with the scene of the child standing in front of dad, just bursting to tell him what happened in school that day. Unfortunately, dad has the paper in front of his face and even when he drops the paper down half-way, it is visibly apparent that he is not really listening.
A student solved the problem of getting dad to listen from behind his protective paper wall. Her solution was to say,
Move your face, dad, when I'm talking to you.'' This simple solution will force even the poorest listener to adopt effective listening skills because it captures the essence of good listening.
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(Added: 21-Apr-2003 Hits: 550
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By Julia Chanteray, Management-Resources
- A guide to effective listening techniques for managers. The advice here will help managers work more effectively with their staff and understand more about other people's needs
(Added: 4-Aug-2002 Hits: 388
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