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Practicing the active listening activities on this page will lead you to improve your communication skills and connect with others in unexpected ways. Active Listening skills call for quieting the mind and engaging fully in what is going on around you.
- Distractions
- Attachment to Personal Beliefs and Values
- Misinterpretations
- Overcoming Barriers to Effective Listening
We get distracted by what is going on outside (our surroundings) and inside ourselves. What’s outside that distracts us while trying to listen to someone? Noises, temperature, or what other people are saying or doing. What’s inside that distracts us from listening to someone? Thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts. Thoughts as memories, judgments, op...
Our personal beliefs and values are dear to us; they're an integral part of our point of view. We tend to find facts and evidence that support our views and we dismiss anything that weakens them. Over time we find that we’ve developed a strong bond to our point of view, we may be proud of our views and defend them if need be. Sometimes we may get i...
When we add an interpretation to what someone's saying or doing, we introduce possible errors in communication. When the message is clear and obvious, our interpretation may be correct, and we feel justified in continue to interepret what others say. We may even congratulate ourselves in being so good at guessing what others’ intentions are behind ...
• When you find yourself getting distracted with either internal or external noise, pay attention by being mindful. • When you discover any attachment to your point of view, ease up on the attachment or completely let go of it. Become curious about other points of view. • When a speaker says something unclear, avoid misinterpretations by asking the...
Reflective Listening is the most advanced form of active listening. Its basic premise is that the speaker knows best what his/her experience is, and the role of the listener is to reflect the experience back to the speaker, to mirror it. How do you reflect? You tune in to people’s words, nonverbal messages, and mood.
Effective communication allows for deeper connection with others. Mutual understanding leads to better connection with people. Better connection with people fulfills our human need for belonging and love. Fulfilling one of our most important needs (belonging) leads to a more satisfying life. What do you think?
The greatest barrier to effective communication is Poor Listening Skills: People not listening or not being present to the what's being said. If both parties are listening poorly or not listening, miscommunication is likely to occur.
Conventional wisdom tells us that face to face communication is more effective than other types of communication such as telephone or email. The argument in favor of face time is that telephone or email communication lacks important nonverbal cues to help us understand the message.
When we are having a conversation via email and text, we try to convey the missing facial expressions by using emoticons, those little faces - and more - that you make using letters and symbols. As you know, a smiley would be a :) Emoticons can be helpful in adding tone to an otherwise flat email or text. Consider the following examples.
