{"id":411,"date":"2010-04-17T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T02:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=411"},"modified":"2016-01-24T15:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T20:41:59","slug":"listening-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"Listening Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steps To Effective Listening:<\/p>\n

1- Listen – yes, oddly enough one has to listen without prejudice or interrupting.
\n2- Listen For The Main Idea – what is the main and specific idea being put forth?
\n3- Listen For The Reason – what is the rationale and reason behind the ideas discussed or proposed? Is the premise correct and based in fact?
\n4- Organize – give the message conveyed an organization and order. It helps results gel and and for the listener to retain the information.
\n5- Ask Questions – once the speaker has ended ask questions. Be sure that your own biases have not tainted what you heard.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

*Things That Need To Go Away: listening meetings where the decision has already been made and conclusion already reached.<\/em><\/p>\n

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