Student Katherine Stordahl offers a brief synopsis on her take about Listening Perception with some great resources.
Listening is so important in many professions?
Because when you look at highly accomplished individuals, No matter what their profession is, you will see that they are excellent listeners. Even the ones are leaders in their field have outstanding listening skills. If you watch how CEOs of large corporation, Presidents, and political leaders. You’ll see how carefully they pay attention to what others are saying. Just like how you would use good listening skills when it comes to family. You may need to take the lead.
Which specific listening skill seems to be agreed upon as most important is to give the speaker your undivided attention, and acknowledge the message.
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http://www.mindtools.com/
Katherine Stordahl
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Ter Scott Shares Another Article About Listening Perception:
Here is another well written article by one of my students, Shane Linge, writing about resources to find good information about Listening Perception:
According to an article posted at http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html, there are three basic steps to good listening. These three steps include hearing, understanding, and judging. The article goes further to explain that hearing what is being said, and being able to repeat it, is considered hearing. After we listen to what was said, we follow up by interpreting what we heard into meaning, or understanding. After that we judge the information we have received and decide for ourselves whether or not we agree. The article lists a few other tips following the basics, I recommend visiting their site to get some good ideas.
There is another article about listening skills that can be found at http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm. This article offers some pointers on how you can become an active listener. The five specific tips they provide are; pay attention, show that you are listening, defer judgment, provide feedback, and to respond appropriately. This article offers some really good information on this subject, and even provides a link for a “tool-kit” to use at your disposal.
I found an article at http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html that offers some listening advice to students in particular. It offers some basic information to help students to get more from their lectures by practicing some good listening skills. Some of the skills they cover include keeping eye contact with your instructor, avoiding distractions, and asking yourself mental questions throughout the lecture. I found some good information in this article, and recommend visiting this site for some more information.
Why is listening perceived to be important in so many professions? Simply put, if you don’t get every amount of information you can from what is being presented to you, you will lack in your job performance as a result.
Which specific listening skills seem to be agreed upon as being most important? I would have to say that from the articles that I chose to read after searching the topic, which the most important skills each article mentions would include hearing, understanding what was received, and making a decision from the information.
Shane Linge
Works Cited:
http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html
http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm
According to an article posted at http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html, there are three basic steps to good listening. These three steps include hearing, understanding, and judging. The article goes further to explain that hearing what is being said, and being able to repeat it, is considered hearing. After we listen to what was said, we follow up by interpreting what we heard into meaning, or understanding. After that we judge the information we have received and decide for ourselves whether or not we agree. The article lists a few other tips following the basics, I recommend visiting their site to get some good ideas.
There is another article about listening skills that can be found at http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm. This article offers some pointers on how you can become an active listener. The five specific tips they provide are; pay attention, show that you are listening, defer judgment, provide feedback, and to respond appropriately. This article offers some really good information on this subject, and even provides a link for a “tool-kit” to use at your disposal.
I found an article at http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html that offers some listening advice to students in particular. It offers some basic information to help students to get more from their lectures by practicing some good listening skills. Some of the skills they cover include keeping eye contact with your instructor, avoiding distractions, and asking yourself mental questions throughout the lecture. I found some good information in this article, and recommend visiting this site for some more information.
Why is listening perceived to be important in so many professions? Simply put, if you don’t get every amount of information you can from what is being presented to you, you will lack in your job performance as a result.
Which specific listening skills seem to be agreed upon as being most important? I would have to say that from the articles that I chose to read after searching the topic, which the most important skills each article mentions would include hearing, understanding what was received, and making a decision from the information.
Shane Linge
Works Cited:
http://www.d.umn.edu/kmc/student/loon/acad/strat/ss_listening.html
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/listeningskills1.html
http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm
Ter Scott offers article about Listening Perception
Today I'm sharing a brief article by one of my student/clients Kari Anderson. Here she speaks about "Listening Perception"
Listening is the most important skill that the human has. To hear is simply not enough. To listen, one puts thought behind everything they hear. By listening, you will learn a lot and know exactly what type of response you should make.
To listen means three things:
• Hear
• Understand
• Judge/process
In order to be a good listener, all three of the above are needed to be sure you are a great listener. If a person is telling you about a situation that is very important to them, such as if they have lost a loved one, you would want to be sure you are listening to what they are saying as you would not want to respond by simply saying “I see”. The person you are speaking with will consider you not very kind and not meeting their expectations of needed a shoulder to lean on in a difficult time.
For a person to become a good listener there is a list of things that one should learn to do.
• Focus on the speaker and stay focused. If you become distracted, you will not hear all that is being said.
• Make sure the speaker/person is done speaking before you give an opinion or answer.
• Listen for the main points of what is being said
• Ask questions, if there is something you are not understanding you will not be able to respond correctly
• Give feedback in the correct way. Make sure you have eye contact with the speaker, nod here and there to show you are “following along” it is a show of attentiveness and facial expressions are needed to show the speaker that you are following along/paying attention.
When you are listening to someone speak, try to not become emotionally involved. It can hamper your responses if you view the speaker’s topic on an emotional level.
Nearly 80% of the top-level North American executives believe that listening skills are extremely important. To listen is to communicate and communication is a huge part of the business world. When a business is making financial decisions, they need to know that all has been heard and the thought process can begin on what their next move will be.
In my own opinion, I believe that listening skills is something that needs to begin at birth and continue. To be a good listener will get you further in life in all areas.
“God gave us 1 mouth and 2 ears as he knew it would be harder to listen than to speak!”
Kari Anderson
Listening is the most important skill that the human has. To hear is simply not enough. To listen, one puts thought behind everything they hear. By listening, you will learn a lot and know exactly what type of response you should make.
To listen means three things:
• Hear
• Understand
• Judge/process
In order to be a good listener, all three of the above are needed to be sure you are a great listener. If a person is telling you about a situation that is very important to them, such as if they have lost a loved one, you would want to be sure you are listening to what they are saying as you would not want to respond by simply saying “I see”. The person you are speaking with will consider you not very kind and not meeting their expectations of needed a shoulder to lean on in a difficult time.
For a person to become a good listener there is a list of things that one should learn to do.
• Focus on the speaker and stay focused. If you become distracted, you will not hear all that is being said.
• Make sure the speaker/person is done speaking before you give an opinion or answer.
• Listen for the main points of what is being said
• Ask questions, if there is something you are not understanding you will not be able to respond correctly
• Give feedback in the correct way. Make sure you have eye contact with the speaker, nod here and there to show you are “following along” it is a show of attentiveness and facial expressions are needed to show the speaker that you are following along/paying attention.
When you are listening to someone speak, try to not become emotionally involved. It can hamper your responses if you view the speaker’s topic on an emotional level.
Nearly 80% of the top-level North American executives believe that listening skills are extremely important. To listen is to communicate and communication is a huge part of the business world. When a business is making financial decisions, they need to know that all has been heard and the thought process can begin on what their next move will be.
In my own opinion, I believe that listening skills is something that needs to begin at birth and continue. To be a good listener will get you further in life in all areas.
“God gave us 1 mouth and 2 ears as he knew it would be harder to listen than to speak!”
Kari Anderson
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