2. Key Takeaways from this session >>
• Eliminate distractions and improve your concentration on what is being said
• Ask constructive, nonthreatening questions that elicit real information
• Locate key words, phrases and ideas while listening
• Cut through your own listening biases
• Interpret body language clues
• Personal Communication Patterns and Capability
4. It is difficult to change something we are not aware of!
Awareness is a vital first step!
Request some of you to share your realizations / connections that you
actually had whilst filling up the Self Evaluation Sheet!
Whilst this sharing exercise is going on >> Please listen!
5. How many of you actually heard right now?
Let’s watch a video and observe very carefully on what is happening >>
6. Make a Note >>
Disadvantages of Not Listening Advantages of Listening
18. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
Most people have a short attention span and have difficulty
concentrating on the same thing for too long.
True
19. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
Listening requires little energy; it is “easy”.
False
20. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
The speaker is totally responsible for the success of communication.
False
21. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
An effective listener keeps an open, curious mind.
True
22. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
Speaking is a more important part of the communication
process than listening.
False
23. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
When a listener’s emotional level is high, he or she will be an
effective listener.
False
24. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
When a person is involved with internal distractions, he or she will not
be able to listen to what the speaker says.
True
25. Mark Each Statement as True or False >>
Being critical and judging a speaker is not an
effective listening skill.
True
26. We all love having interesting conversations!!
28. Education Pattern and Time Invested >>
Reading
Writing
Speaking
Listening
16%
9%
35%
40%
12 years
8 years
2 years
Hardly
1 month
29. Leaders spend 50% of the time listening!
If they are only 25% effective listening then
75% of time is gone in ineffective listening
30. What is empathic listening?
There are 5 levels of Listening
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Ignoring
Pretending
Selective
Empathic
Attentive
31. Turn down the noise in your head >>>>
What is empathic listening?
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Body Language
Listen to Understand
Emotional Bank Account
Psychological Air
10% Words + 30% Sounds + 60% Body Language
Not your autobiography, but the reality of the head and heart
The human dimension is more important than the technical
The greatest need for a human being is psychological survival!
32. Turn up
what they
are saying
Turn down
the internal
noise
Empathic Listening leads to the ability to influence >>>>>>>>
33. Turn up
what they
are saying
Turn down
the internal
noise
Empathic Listening leads to the ability to influence >>>>>>>>
Not Listening Empathic Listening
Undiscussable Discussable
Underground Above the Ground
Unmanageable Manageable
38. What is empathic listening?
There are 4 types of Attitudes
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I’m OK – You’re Not OK
I’m Not OK – You’re OK
I’m Not OK – You’re Not OK
I’m OK – You’re OK
39. What is empathic listening?
The listening behavior of individuals in the different OK attitudes
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I’m Not OK – You’re Not OK
• This attitude is very detrimental to listening and the entire communication
process fails
• Not interested in what anyone has to say
• Usually withdrawn, negative and pessimistic
• Easily get frustrated, angry and are very discouraging
40. What is empathic listening?
The listening behavior of individuals in the different OK attitudes
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I’m OK – You’re Not OK
• Quickly judge and criticize what the other person is saying
• When someone brings about an opposing point, selective hearing is triggered
in
• This listening style often leaves people feeling frustrated and resentful
41. What is empathic listening?
The listening behavior of individuals in the different OK attitudes
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I’m Not OK – You’re OK
• Often worried about themselves and how they come across
• Focused on themselves rather than the dynamics of what is going on
• So busy on trying to say the right thing that they don’t say anything
• Consequences are instructions carried out poorly, messages taken down
incorrectly
42. What is empathic listening?
The listening behavior of individuals in the different OK attitudes
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I’m OK – You’re OK
• They focus their attention on the talker without judging them and giving the
necessary psychological air
• The listner has a very positive body language, facial expressions, tones of
voice and gestures
• They know the importance of building trust in the conversation and create a
positive upward spiral in the conversation
• Only OK – OK style is categorized as open, relaxed, understanding. logical,
empathetic and nonjudgmental
43. There is a Hidden Story in everyone’s life >> Listen >> Exercise Empathy
Let’s watch a video and observe very carefully on what is happening >>