{"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":"<p>Steps To Effective Listening:<\/p>\n<p>1- Listen &#8211; yes, oddly enough one has to listen without prejudice or interrupting.<br \/>\n2- Listen For The Main Idea &#8211; what is the main and specific idea being put forth?<br \/>\n3- Listen For The Reason &#8211; what is the rationale and reason behind the ideas discussed or proposed? Is the premise correct and based in fact?<br \/>\n4- Organize &#8211; give the message conveyed an organization and order. It helps results gel and and for the listener to retain the information.<br \/>\n5- Ask Questions &#8211; once the speaker has ended ask questions. Be sure that your own biases have not tainted what you heard.<\/p>\n<p>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<p><em>*Things That Need To Go Away: listening meetings where the decision has already been made and conclusion already reached.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-418\" title=\"j03992151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/j03992151-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"j03992151\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/j03992151-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/j03992151-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/j03992151.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steps To Effective Listening: 1- Listen &#8211; yes, oddly enough one has to listen without prejudice or interrupting. 2- Listen For The Main Idea &#8211; what is the main and specific idea being put forth? 3- Listen For The Reason &#8211; what is the rationale and reason behind the ideas discussed or proposed? Is the <a href='https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/?p=411' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3,7,9,10,11,12,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"modified_by":"Ali Ghaemi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alighaemi.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}