Last Updated on 24/01/2016
Steps To Effective Listening:
1- Listen – yes, oddly enough one has to listen without prejudice or interrupting.
2- Listen For The Main Idea – what is the main and specific idea being put forth?
3- Listen For The Reason – what is the rationale and reason behind the ideas discussed or proposed? Is the premise correct and based in fact?
4- Organize – give the message conveyed an organization and order. It helps results gel and and for the listener to retain the information.
5- Ask Questions – once the speaker has ended ask questions. Be sure that your own biases have not tainted what you heard.
Taking notes is a good idea. It shows that the listener is interested. It also is a better method of keeping record than memory alone.
*Things That Need To Go Away: listening meetings where the decision has already been made and conclusion already reached.
