Did you know that there is quite a difference between listening and hearing?
The skill of listening is frequently overlooked, or given a low priority in our communication today. Yet everybody enjoys talking with a good listener
The benefits of having good listening skills are far reaching.
How to Make People Like You by Being a Good Listener
Learn why you should be a good listener and how to become one.
Arguments Steal Mind Power
Have you ever caught yourself arguing just to argue? It’s a great way to hone your debating skills – and diminish your mind power!
What is true listening?
Learn what it takes to be a good listener. It may surprise you how many closed responses you actually give.
How Can You Do It?
You know it’s true. Everyone has told you. You have to spend as much time as possible listening to a foreign language. But how?
Sharpening Your Listening Skills Like A Katana
Sharpening Your Listening Skills Like a Katana
Improve Your Results With Active Listening
Listening is one of the most common and important things that we do. Recent research on work behaviour suggests that we spend approximately 9% of our time writing, 16% of our time reading, 30% of our time talking and 45% of our time listening.
Communications And Telephones
Although credit for the invention of the telephone remains in doubt and open to much debate and discussion, there is no such doubt over the impact and progress seen from this mode of telecommunications. Inventors including Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Johann Phillip Reis and Antonio Meucci all laid claim to having invented the very first telephone.
Do You Listen to your Child?
Communicating with our children can be a difficult task at times. We feel like they’re not listening to us;
The Best Answer Begins with the Right Question
Good questions help everyone involved work toward a win-win outcome. They should be used to clarify information, not demean or criticize. St. Francis said, Seek to understand [rather] than to be understood. Understanding is difficult to come by without first gathering the right information.
Be Curious And Be A Successful Communicator
There are many ways to improve the way you communicate. For example, you will always start things off on the right foot by opening the conversation in a way that creates mutual respect. Using phrases such as, “If you have a minute, I’d like to talk with you about something that I think will improve the way we work together,” helps set your conversation partner at ease. It tells him or her that you have positive intentions.
Listen to Suggestions
As a customer of any service or product – how do you feel when your Email is ignored, your voice mail message is never answered, and you dont get any feedback or concern, at all, from customer service? We all feel the same nobody likes to be ignored. The shame of all this is that customer service is getting worse on a global scale.