Active listening

distracted. In active listening, focusing on the speaker and topic will help improve communication in the organization. I would avoid any disturbances when focusing on the speaker and topic whether it’s becoming distracted by my own thoughts, another listener, or from any technical devices such as phones and other gadgets. It’s important to set aside your own feelings and prejudices when trying to become a better active listener. Offering your opinion is an example of poor listening…

Listening is a conscious process, which includes absorbing information through the ears and convert the information into a mean of something. Many people confuse the difference between hearing and listening. According to Lundsteen, hearing is the action that requires only the physical work. However, listening requires the brain to actively engage to function. (1979, pp.15) As a result, actively listening makes a significant impact on people in the workplace environment. Actively listening helps…

When people speak, it is crucial for others or the audience to grasp what is important about the speaker through first impressions. This allows people to evaluate the speaker and help connect with them so that they can associate with the story being told. Body language, demeanor, and mannerisms allow people to read the speaker’s emotions so that they can get an accurate impression about him. This impression is affirmed by confidence portrayed while a person engages his audience. In literature,…

be using the reflecting listening skills to help me paraphrase what my client has talked about, so that the client could have that feeling that she is being heard and I am empathetic. In this stage, my goal is to build…

good and the bad. At times I feel as if I'm your punching bag, even though I know you don't mean it in that way. I take the punches without retaliating because maybe it's what you needed; to let out all the emotions that are bundled up. I guess listening is what I'm good at, but I struggle with replying at times. You are my guiding light. The lighthouse at the edge of the bay, calling me home always. No matter what, I will always be your little girl and I will always need you, but things are…

I want to start off by sharing that I am aware that active listening is essential to working out conflict. While it is a weakness for myself as I struggle with active listening. I am a person that likes to multi-task, while having conversations or watching television, I find myself unable to maintain focus. This is a negative behavior that I condone especially since a part of active listening “is where you make a conscious effort to hear not only the words that another person is saying but, more…

function of Active Listening is to focus on the speaker for further understanding and connection, it would be safe so say that workers who are good listeners should be just as beneficial to an organization as a receptive manager. Given that the normal flow of communication in a workplace is typified by a supervisor giving instructions or tasks to subordinates, the ability of an employee to listen would appear natural. Unfortunately, many of the same problems associated with listening that…

the client’s behavior but trying to understand the behavior (Clinton & Ohlschlager, 2002, p. 208). To empathize with our clients we must be able to put our own thoughts and feelings aside so that we can better understand our client. Active listening involves listening wholeheartedly to a message, without judgement, in an…

Active listening is a difficult art to master. It takes a lot of attention, concentration, patience and objectivity to listen well. ‘If we could all just learn to listen, everything else would fall into place. Listening is the key to being patient centered’. As, I was sitting in a community park I overheard a few conversations. Partners, Sylvia and Alison, talk to their friend Jenny about how legislation and social change over the last thirty years has changed their experiences of being lesbian.…

In the assignment today, we select one person or parent to retaliate a practice using the skill of active listening, attending, reflecting feelings, questioning, and paraphrasing. Furthermore we used the open ended and closed questions and see what type of response we get from your helper. This practice was very easy, in this case not was difficult to use skills, the skills more difficult was feeling because one can become in this person to understand it. The part most uncomfortable were when…