Examples of active listening in the following topics:
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- Develop a practice of active listening to be an effective listener.
- Being an active listener not only makes you a more engaged audience member but, quite simply, it's polite.
- There are a number of other courteous behaviors that an active listener should practice:
- Intrinsic to active listening is the ability to feed back what has been said to the speaker, often in the form of paraphrasing.
- The art of active listening is more than just hearing what the speaker has to say: it's about being an engaged, attentive listener able to paraphrase what has already been said.
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- Listening is an active process by which we make sense of, assess, and respond to what we hear.
- Listening is an active process by which we make sense of, assess, and respond to what we hear.
- The ability to actively listen demonstrates sincerity, and that nothing is being assumed or taken for granted.
- This active listening chart shows three main degrees of listening: repeating, paraphrasing, and reflecting.
- Define active listening and list the five stages of the listening process
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- Resisting distractions and listening actively are two ways to become a more effective listener.
- This activity confirms what the listener heard and, moreover, confirms that both parties understand each other.
- If someone is actively listening, then he or she is typically not distracted.
- The ability to listen actively demonstrates sincerity on the part of the listener and helps to make sure that no information is being assumed or taken for granted.
- Explain how resisting distractions and listening actively can make you a more effective listener
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- Critical thinking skills are essential and connected to the ability to listen effectively and process the information that one hears.
- The first step in thinking critically about the contents of a lecture is to listen to the lecture thoughtfully and without distraction.
- Using a technique such as active listening, wherein one is able to repeat or paraphrase what has been said, one will better be able to cognitively process the information to draw independent conclusions and think critically.
- Expressed in most general terms, critical thinking is "a way of taking up the problems of life. " As such, reading, writing, speaking, and listening can all be done critically or uncritically insofar as core critical thinking skills can be applied to all of those activities.
- Therefore, critical thinkers must engage in highly active listening to further their critical thinking skills.
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- As obvious as it may seem, in order to effectively gather information through listening, we must first be able to physically hear what we're listening to.
- The clearer the sound, the easier the listening process becomes.
- Listening is an active process that constructs meaning from both verbal and nonverbal messages.
- In order to best listen to what she's saying, the listener needs to ignore the ambient street sounds.
- Discerning speech segmentation can be a more difficult activity when the listener is faced with an unfamiliar language.
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- Listen to your interviewee, ask questions, respect boundaries, avoid leading questions, and don't interrupt to ensure a successful interview.
- According to Seidman, listening is both the hardest as well as the most important skill in interviewing.
- Furthermore, interviewers must be prepared to listen on three different levels: they must listen to
- The listening skills required in an interview require more focus and attention to detail than what is typical in normal conversation.
- Be respectful and practice active listening to get the most out of your interview time.
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- Technology can assist the audience with listening, but can also be a distraction at the same time.
- Everyone has experienced the benefits technology can provide to the listening experience.
- An engaged audience member is more likely to pay attention to the material and therefore listen more actively to a presentation.
- When not used properly, however, technology can become a barrier to effective listening.
- Beyond technology being utilized by the presented, technology used by the listener can also hinder effective listening.
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- Open-minded listening requires empathy and a suspension of judgment on the part of the listener.
- It does not mean that the listener should not have strong views of his or her own, but it does require the listener to be willing to consider the merit of what other people say.
- Judgmental listening also occurs when the listener is only listening to the speaker in order to determine whether he or she is right or wrong, rather than listening to understand the speaker's ideas and where they come from.
- Listeners may have overwhelmingly positive or negative associations with particular people or ideas, and those associations can affect how listeners interpret.
- Empathetic listening helps promote effective listening because it allows the listener to take into account where the speaker is coming from, both emotionally and in terms of the content of his or her speech.
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- It is important to remember that only an unsatisfied need or desire can be used to motivate the listener.
- According to Maslow, if you are trying to motivate your listeners to satisfy a particular need, you want to make sure the lower level needs are being met before you can motivate them to address an upper level need.
- Now we can apply this knowledge to motivate our listeners.
- Explain the steps that make up Alan Monroe's motivated sequence for organizing persuasive speeches, and how Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs serves as a method for motivating listeners
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- The second stage in the listening process is the understanding stage.
- In the office, people listen to their superiors for instructions about what they are to do.
- At school, students listen to teachers to learn new ideas.
- We listen to political candidates give policy speeches in order to determine who will get our vote.
- After receiving information via listening, the next step is understanding what we've heard.