The Fundamentals of Listening | Origin: AD115
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Effective Questioning and Listening --> The Fundamentals of Listening
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Being a great listener is an Act of Kindness when conversing with others; friends, colleagues, family or strangers.
I will definitely take back to my team the highlights of empathetic listening. When we do phone observations - Did they listen with their ears AND their heart? Sometimes we don't actively listen and we are just waiting for our time to talk. You can't do that if you are truly being empathetic!
Attibutes great listeners share: humility, curiosity, patience, self awareness, respect, empathy
Truly listening means listening with your eyes, ears, and hearts. It is important to clear the filters in your mind before you can truly listen and hear what someone is truly saying.
Listening with your eyes, ears, and heart allows to get into the other person's head and heart. You are listening to understand.
Great listeners make listening active rather than passive and give you their full attention. They show that they care.
Sometimes, we get too excited to share our thoughts to our students when the ideal scenario is the hear them out first to be able to assess the situation.
I learned the difference between simply hearing someone and truly listening with focus and intent.
listening to understand...not to reply - or wait till they finish to speak...but being intentional about what you hear.
This helped me to realize that I wasn't truly listening. I was hearing but not listening which are two different things.
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.
