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Listening Skills
Listening Skills
Listening Skills
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What is Listening?
• Listening :to hear something with
thoughtful attention
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• Listening is hard!
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Types/Styles of Listening
• Critical listening Ex.: Found in Courts of Law
• Content listening: Ex.: Lectures by teachers
• Empathic listening: Listener attempts to listen
to the message from the sender’s perspective
• Active listening: Ex.: Business Meetings
where whole body is actively involved in the
process of listening
Active vs. Passive Listening
Passive Listening is listening without
reacting: Allowing someone to speak,
without interrupting
• To be inspired
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The Anatomy of Poor Listening
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The Good Listener Listens With His
Whole Body
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The Good Listener Sincerely Seeks
to Understand
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Who is a Kinesthetic speaker?
• That person who takes help of actions,
gestures, posture and body language to
make understand audience his point
correctly
The Listening Process –Steps/Stages
(Also known as HURIER model of
listening/Cognitive process)
•Hearing
•Understanding
•Remembering
•Interpreting
•Evaluating
•Responding
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What is Empathetic Listening?
• Is a process where the listener empathizes (to put
oneself in the other person’s mental frame) with
the speaker and tries not only to listen to the
verbal message but also the emotions and feelings
of the speaker
References
• Monippally – anatomy, features
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