The document discusses the importance of listening skills. It states that listening is the most important communication skill and the first skill learned, yet is often the least practiced. Effective listening requires attention, analyzing sounds, comprehending meanings, and interpreting patterns. Barriers to listening include physiological, psychological, and environmental factors that can distract or limit a listener's ability to focus. The document provides tips for active listening, such as focusing full attention on the speaker, avoiding distractions, letting the speaker finish without interrupting, and asking questions to clarify understanding.
Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.
Listening is key to all effective communication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood.
There are five key active listening techniques you can use to help you become a more effective listener:
Pay Attention. Give the speaker your undivided attention, and acknowledge the message.
Show That You're Listening.
Provide Feedback.
Defer Judgment.
Respond Appropriately.
Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.
Listening is key to all effective communication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood.
There are five key active listening techniques you can use to help you become a more effective listener:
Pay Attention. Give the speaker your undivided attention, and acknowledge the message.
Show That You're Listening.
Provide Feedback.
Defer Judgment.
Respond Appropriately.
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Listening is the most important
communication skill
We probably spend more time
using our Listening Skills than any
other kind of skill
Like other skills, Listening takes
practice
Real Listening is an active process
Listening requires attention
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Effective Listening is the process of analyzing sounds,
organizing them into recognizable patterns, interpreting the
patterns and understanding the message by inferring the
meaning
Many of the problems we experience with people in our daily
lives are primarily attributable to ineffective listening or lack
of listening
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The First and the foremost communication skill that we learn in
our lives is nothing but “LISTENING”
LISTENING
SPEAKING
WRITING
READING
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ACCORDING TO THE ELMHURST COLLEGE LEARNING CENTER:
Listening and hearing are not the same. Hearing is the first stage of
listening. Hearing occurs when our ears pick up sound waves which
are then transported to our brain. This stage is our sense of hearing.
Listening is a communication process and, to be successful, is an active
process. In other words, we must be an active participant in this
communication process. In active listening, meaning and evaluation of
a message must take place before a listener can respond to a speaker.
Therefore, the listener is actively working while the speaker is talking.
How can this happen? It is simple. Our thought speed is much faster
than our speech speed. But be careful! Don't allow the thought speed
to race into daydreaming. This habit will defeat our attempt to become
an active listener.
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Basic Communication Skills Profile
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Communication Order Learnt Extent Used Extent Taught
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Listening First First Fourth
Speaking Second Second Third
Reading Third Third Second
Writing Fourth Fourth First
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Fallacies about Listening
Listening is not my problem!
Listening and hearing are the same
Good readers are good listeners
Smarter people are better listeners
Listening improves with age
Listening skills are difficult to learn
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To learn
To increase one’s understanding
To advise or counsel
To relieve one’s boredom
(listening to music)
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One quarter of our waking time is spent in listening
Research shows that at the workplace, on an average, personnel spend about:
32.7 percent of their time listening
25.8 percent of their time speaking
22.6 percent of their time writing
Effective Listening is the most crucial skill for
becoming a successful manager. It requires paying
attention, interpreting and remembering sound
stimuli.
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• Communication is not complete without effective
listening
• An attentive listener stimulates better speaking by
the speaker
• A good listener learns more than an indifferent
listener
• A good listener can restructure vague speaking in a
way that produces clearer meaning
• A good listener learns to detect prejudices,
assumptions and attitudes
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Real listening has three basic steps:
• Hearing Hearing just means listening enough to catch what the
speaker is saying. For example, say you were listening to a report on
zebras, and the speaker mentioned that no two are alike. If you can
repeat the fact, then you have heard what has been said.
• Understanding The next part of listening happens when you take
what you have heard and understand it in your own way. Let's go back
to that report on zebras. When you hear that no two are alike, think
about what that might mean. You might think, "Maybe this means that
the pattern of stripes is different for each zebra."
• Judging After you are sure that you have understood what the
speaker has said, think about whether it makes sense. Do you believe
what you have heard? You might think, "How could the stripes be
different for every zebra? But then again, the fingerprints are different
for every person. I think this seems believable."
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HEARING
Hearing is the first essential step in the listening process and
relates to the sensory perception of sound. The listener
further processes the perceived sound. For learning to be
effective, hearing needs to be done with attentiveness and
concentration.
FILTERING
The next step involves sensing and filtering of heard sounds.
The heard message is categorized as wanted or unwanted.
The unwanted message is discarded. The sense of
judgement of the individual comes into play, that is, the
filtering process is subjective and a person chooses to retain
what makes sense to him.
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COMPREHENDING
The listener understands what the speaker has tried to
convey. This activity can be described as absorbing,
grasping or assimilating. The listener uses his
knowledge, experience, perception and cognitive power.
REMEMBERING
The assimilated message is stored in memory to facilitate
future recall.
RESPONDING
Responding to a message takes place at the end of the
communication, immediately after or later, to show that
the message is being received and comprehended.
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DISCRIMINATIVE LISTENING – It involves identifying
the difference between various sounds. It also enables one
to differentiate between familiar and unfamiliar language.
COMPREHENSION LISTENING – It involves attaching
meaning to what is being listened to. It may also include
comprehending the non verbal messages being conveyed
by the speaker.
EVALUATIVE LISTENING – It involves evaluating and
analyzing the message being received. It involves judging
the acceptability of what is said depending on how logical
one finds it to be.
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ATTENTIVE LISTENING – It involves paying attention
to the words that are being spoken.
PRETENCE LISTENING – It involves more hearing than
listening. It means pretending through facial expressions
that one is listening when actually one is not.
SELECTIVE LISTENING – It involves selecting the
desired part of the message and ignoring the undesired
part of the message.
INTUITIVE LISTENING – It means listening through
the intuitive mind by silencing the other forms of internal
dialogues going on simultaneously.
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• Physical Barriers
• People – Related Barriers
Physiological Barriers
Psychological Barriers
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• State of Health – State of health of the listener and the
speaker affects the listening ability. Fever, pain or any
other form of bodily discomfort makes it difficult for a
person to listen or speak comfortably.
• Disability – Hearing deficiencies may lead to poor
listening. Similarly, speech disorders of the speaker may
make a speech incoherent to the listener. Speaker’s accent
may also make it difficult for the listener to comprehend.
• Wandering attention – Human mind can process
words at the rate of about 500 per minute, whereas a
speaker speaks at the rate of about 150 per minute. The
difference between the two leaves the listener with
sufficient time to let his mind wander.
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• Being unsure of the speaker’s ability – Based on
past experience or inputs from sources, the listener may
have a preconceived notion of the speaker’s ability. He may
perceive the speaker to not be well informed, or to be
lacking in depth and ability. Hence the listener will not
listen to what the speaker has to say.
• Personal anxiety – Sometimes the listener is
preoccupied with personal concerns and anxieties. This
makes it difficult to perceive what is being said by the
speaker.
• Attitude – The listener may be highly egocentric with a
“know it all attitude” and may not listen as he feels that he
already knows what the listener has to say.
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• Impatience – The listener may not have patience to wait
for the other person to finish what he has to say. He may be
intolerant or may be eager to add his own points to the
discussion. As a result, his desire to speak overcomes his
desire to listen, thus acting as a barrier.
• Emotional blocks – Our deep seated beliefs in certain
ideas may make it difficult for us to listen to ideas which go
against our belief. We may hear such an idea wrongly or it
may get distorted in our mind to match our perception or
we may completely block it off by not listening to it. Many a
time, we block something off completely because of painful
memories associated with it.
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• Give your full attention on the person who is speaking.
Don't look out the window or at what else is going on in the
room.
• Make sure your mind is focused. It can be easy to let your
mind wander if you think you know what the person is
going to say next, but you might be wrong! If you feel your
mind wandering, change the position of your body and try
to concentrate on the speaker's words.
• Let the speaker finish before you begin to talk. Speakers
appreciate having the chance to say everything they would
like to say without being interrupted. When you interrupt, it
looks like you aren't listening, even if you really are.
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• Let yourself finish listening before you begin to speak!
You can't really listen if you are busy thinking about what
you want to say next.
• Listen for main ideas. The main ideas are the most
important points the speaker wants to get across. They
may be mentioned at the start or end of a talk, and
repeated a number of times. Pay special attention to
statements that begin with phrases such as "My point is..."
or "The thing to remember is..."
• Ask questions. If you are not sure you understood what
the speaker has said, just ask. For example, you might say,
"When you said that no two zebras are alike, did you mean
that the stripes are different on each one?"
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• Give feedback. Sit up straight and look directly at the
speaker. Now and then, nod to show that you understand.
At appropriate points you may also smile, frown, laugh, or
be silent. These are all ways to let the speaker know that
you are really listening. Remember, you listen with your
face as well as your ears!
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• Book – Business English, Pearson Education, Department
of English, University of Delhi
• Work of Prof. Meenakshi Gupta, Dept. of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai,
Mumbai
• Internet Websites:
www.infoplease.com
www.about.com
www.elmhurst.edu
www.d.umn.edu