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Five Step Process of Listening Barriers to Effective Listening Recipe to Improve Listening. Listening Defined. The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages. Five Step Process. Attending Understanding Remembering Analyzing
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Five Step Process of Listening Barriers to Effective Listening Recipe to Improve Listening
Listening Defined • The process of receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken and/or nonverbal messages.
Five Step Process • Attending • Understanding • Remembering • Analyzing • Responding
Attending • Defined- The process of selecting and focusing on specific stimuli from the countless stimuli that reaches our senses. • We must train ourselves to attend to what people are saying regardless of our interests or needs. • Three techniques to help focus our attention: 1)Get Physically and Mentally ready to listen 2)Make a complete shift from speaker to listener 3)Resist Tuning Out
Understanding • Defined- Decoding a message accurately to reflect the meaning intended by the speaker. • Observe nonverbal cues • Practice Active Listening to ensure accuracy • Three Active Listening Devices: 1)The Question 2)Paraphrasing 3)Empathy Statements
Remembering • Defined- Retaining Information; being able to retain information and recall it when needed. • Three Techniques: 1)Repeat Information 2)Construct Mnemonics- Ex. BASMOQN 3)Write it Down
Analyzing • Defined- The process of evaluating what you hear in order to determine truthfulness. • Listen critically • Separate facts from opinions and recognize sarcasm, etc.
Responding • Defined- Give comfort; help people feel better about themselves and their behavior when warranted. • Realize that sometimes others just want us to listen. • Encourage, reassure, bolster, soothe, or console through supportive responses. • Avoid being a “buzz killer”
Barriers to Effective Listening • Noise- Physical, Psychological, Physiological and Semantic • Problems with the Speaker (Messenger) • Problems with the Message
Poor Listening Habits • Pseudo Listening- Giving the appearance of listening when not. • Selective Listening- Responding only to the part(s) that interest you; rejecting everything else.
Traditional Chinese Character for “Listen” • A Recipe