The Fundamentals of Listening | Origin: AD115
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Effective Questioning and Listening --> The Fundamentals of Listening
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Active listening is one of the crucial conditions that must be present in a conversation in order for it to be productive and constructive. The content presented in the section delves into the initiatives and characteristics that we must develop to conduct a conversation where at the end of it a higher qualitative state has been reached.
It is important to not only listen with your ears but also your eyes and your heart.
Overtaking happens when you prepare your response before the speaker finishes, which prevents you from fully listening and understanding their message. To improve communication, you should focus on truly listening and avoiding premature responses.
I learned about empathic listening which I really liked, which is to listen with your eyes, ears, and heart. I intend to use all the listening techniques I have learned here onto the students.
I appreciated the quick and clean breakdown of the types of positive as well as negative listening - particularly the negative, it is important to understand that often negativity comes from the listeners perception not the speakers participation.
Fascinating that our listening effectiveness is only estimated to be 25%! I will definitely focus on active listening from now on.
'Listening barriers/filters' was very helpful in my own self-assessments and reflection. This is really helpful information that I find myself (in some cases) ensuring that I am honest, constructively critical and open in my self-assessments just to make sure that I'm not holding back my own opportunity to grow.
There is a difference between listening and really hearing what someone is saying.
As a listener understanding your biases and ensuring you listen with you eyes, ears and heart can greatly impact how successful you are in your job.
As a listener, it is important to listen without filters. Common filters are sympathy, patronization, closed filter, internal dialogue. Empathetic listening is when you listen with your eyes, ears, and heart.
EMPATHIC LISTENING, listening with your eyes, ears and heart. It give you accurate data to work with, you're dealing with the reality inside another persons head and heart.
I really enjoyed hearing about the listening filters and considering which filters I may be challenged with. Taking a moment to clear those filters before having conversations will be a new activity for me.
Comment on Ravi Siriwardane's post: Yes I do agree that sometimes we tend to "listen to respond" A good listener is more open to have positive results. Eyes, Ears and Heart
One of the greatest things learned is to listen more and talk less. Even more so, to talk with empathy and to push away any bias. I truly believe students can read into these cues and appreciate when we are active listening and treating them with respect.
-When you listen more and talk less as you ask questions, you will have the appreciation of the receiver, assist in building a relationship, and produce a sense of validation in the receiver.
-Humility, curiosity, patience, self awareness, respects, and empathy are the key attributes of great listeners. In addition, great listeners give you their full attention, showing that they care. Great listeners make listening an active rather than a passive activity.
-Having a closed filter causes the listener to judge every conversation from their own perspective rather than listening objectively. If your response it to automatically compare the speaker's situation to one of your own, you are listening through a closed filter.
-Listen with your eyes, ears, and heart.
All of the tools provided are great resources with communicating with students, talking less, listening more, and being humble is critical to effective communication.
Listening with your heart means you truly caring about the other person!
I think this module does an excellent job at reminding us to listen with not only our ears, but our eyes and heart. Listen to understand, not to respond!
It's really important to consciously and actively listen...not hear but rather listen with eyes and empathy.
