
Active Listening is very important to earn the respect and love from people around you. In this chapter, we shall talk about what all we are going to cover in this course and briefly why learning and practicing Active Listening is important for us.
Here, we shall learn the difference between Hearing and Listening, Definition of Effective Listening and stages of Listening
In this lecture, let's learn about different types of listening
In this chapter, we shall learn how Active Listening helps to improve relationship between people
The Instruction document contains the instruction. The Activity - II File is the second activity and the Knowledge Check is the small quiz.
In this module, we shall learn how our childhood experience and social practices play a very important role in our listening pattern even during our adulthood.
In this chapter, we shall learn about how OK Attitude and Drama Triangle works. Here we shall see how the listener or sometimes even the speaker is at different socialization stages. We shall also see different listening filters that we may have.
In this section, we shall talk about different barriers that we often see between the speaker and the listener. We shall also learn, how to remove these barriers to enable Active Listening.
In this section, let’s learn about how to listen to ourselves and various internal thought process and believe system that drives our emotions and behavior.
This entire activity will help us to understand how we should listen to our internal voice and how does it help us to become a better person and also improve relationship with others.
Here, in this module, we shall learn how as a speaker we can help our listener to listen actively.
So far, we have learnt how to listen actively when both the speaker and the listener are available in the same place. But recently, there is a significant shift in the working environment. Now, many people are working remotely; thus, the number of virtual meetings has increased in many folds. Virtual meetings come with a different challenge. Active listening is much tricky when we connect virtually.
The ability to listen is a key ingredient to becoming a successful leader. Not only a Leader, but Active Listening is essential to be successful as a parent, supervisor, friend and spouse. Whichever role we play in our life, Active Listener gets an edge in all these aspects. A person who listens to others with empathy, without interrupting and being judgmental earns love and respect from people, both in the workplace and personal life.
This course covers the Importance of Listening, How you got to be the listener you are, Barriers between the speaker and listener, Listening to Yourself, Making Listening Work for you and finally Getting Others to Listen to you.
Great listeners always listen to others with – empathy, Keep an open and curious mind, Listen for new ideas, listen from the heart to help stay non-judgemental, be introspective and have the capacity and desire to critically examine the content, and understand the intent.
Think of a situation. You went to meet your supervisor in his/her office to discuss something important. But you find that your supervisor is busy typing something on his/her laptop while you are speaking! What will you feel? For sure, you will be feeling neglected and will not like to continue! Your supervisor might be excellent at multitasking, but if we do not listen to the speaker with eye contact and show visible interest, it can turn any speaker off!
What you will learn here?
1. What is Listening?
2. What are the key behaviours an Active Listener has?
3. Common mistakes that we make.
4. How to improve our listening skills?
5. Things to keep in mind while attending virtual meetings.