Aim to promote insight into effective listening skills
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Aim: to promote insight into effective listening skills Objectives: • To identify the feelings associated with poor listening techniques • To analyse elements of effective listening • To practice and evaluate participants’ personal skill sets
I know you believe you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant
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Qualities of Active Listeners Desire to be “other-directed” No desire to protect yourself Desire to imagine the experience of the other Desire to understand, not critique
Skills for Active Listening ATTENDING Examples: Sitting forward Explanation: Providing verbal and non-verbal awareness Eye contact Nodding head Open gestures Mirroring
Skills for Active Listening PARAPHRASING Examples: So what I hear you saying is. . . Explanation: Restating the person’s basic verbal message.
Skills for Active Listening REFLECTING FEELINGS Explanation: Reflecting feelings that have been heard or perceived through cues. Examples: You’re feeling ___. It makes you (feeling) that. . .
Skills for Active Listening PROBING Examples: What happened after that? Explanation: Questioning in a supportive way. Ask for more info or clarification Open-ended Who was there? What did they do? How did that work?
Skills for Active Listening CHECKING PERCEPTIONS Explanation: Finding out if interpretations are accurate. Examples: It seems to me like you’re pretty ____. So, you were taking some risks when you. . .
Skills for Active Listening BEING QUIET Examples: Count to yourself. Explanation: Giving the other time to think as well as to talk Don’t try to fill every silence.
Skills for Active Listening SUMMARIZING Explanation: Bringing together in some way experiences and feelings. Examples: You told off the teacher and now you’re scared. . . You’re feeling on top of the world because you got an A!
Trying It Out SPEAKER Tell about some success you’ve had recently. LISTENER Practice skills OBSERVER Make note of active listening skills being used. Feedback.
Trying It Out SPEAKER What is the biggest challenge of working in education? LISTENER Practice skills OBSERVER Make note of active listening skills being used. Feedback.
Qualities of Active Listeners Desire to be “other-directed” No desire to protect yourself Desire to imagine the experience of the other Desire to understand, not critique
- Pre while post listening activities
- While listening stage
- Importance of effective listening skills
- Active and passive listening
- Evaluative listening definition
- Business communication listening
- Listening skills examples
- Speaking and listening: effective group discussions
- Physical barriers to listening
- Testing listening skills
- Speaking and listening assessment
- Listening skills objectives
- Objectives of listening skills
- Listening aims
- Presentation on listening skills
- Listening and notetaking skills
- Receptive skills listening and reading