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Improving Your Listening Skills

Improving Your Listening Skills. How to be an Active Listener. Active Listening. Good listening skills are important in school the workplace day-to-day living Yet most of us receive very little training in effective listening. Take the Effective Listening Quiz!.

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Improving Your Listening Skills

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  1. Improving Your Listening Skills How to be an Active Listener

  2. Active Listening • Good listening skills are important in • school • the workplace • day-to-day living • Yet most of us receive very little training in effective listening.

  3. Take the Effective Listening Quiz!

  4. 7 Ways to Improve Your Listening • Here are 7 strategies and suggestions to help you improve your listening skills. • 1.) Increase your listening span: • Try to resist the temptation to interrupt. • Make sure the speaker has had a complete chance to make his or her point before you speak. • If you don't get the whole message, ask the speaker to repeat what they said.

  5. Ways to Improve Your Listening • 2.) Take time to listen: • Don't put obvious limitations on your listening time - the speaker will feel rushed. • 3.) Listen between the lines: • Don't just listen to what is being said. • Try to understand the attitudes, needs and motives behind the words.

  6. Ways to Improve Your Listening • 4.) Give your full attention: • Nodding or interjecting occasionally to clarify a point lets the speaker know you are interested. • If the speaker pauses briefly, don't rush to fill the silence. • Use open-ended questions to encourage elaboration.

  7. Ways to Improve Your Listening • 5.) Restate the message: • When you are sure that the speaker has finished, restate the main points. • This is a good organizing strategy for you. • It also gives the speaker assurance that the message has been received.

  8. Ways to Improve Your Listening • 6.) Listen for ideas as well as facts: • A good listener makes an effort to understand what the facts add up to. • 7.) Don't monopolize: • Resist the urge to dominate a situation or to feel that you know everything about a situation. • Be open to new ideas and allow the speaker to have his or her say.

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