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Active Listening: Better Communication & Soft Skills at Work
Role Play
New
50 students
What you'll learn
- Apply a structured active listening process (preparation, receiving, understanding, reflecting, and responding) in real conversations
- Demonstrate how to reflect and paraphrase messages to confirm understanding and reduce miscommunication
- Identify common listening barriers (e.g., assumptions, distractions, emotional reactions) and actively manage them during conversations
- Use clarifying questions and feedback techniques to uncover deeper meaning and improve communication outcomes
- Analyze conversations to detect gaps in understanding and adjust listening strategies accordingly
- Practice empathetic listening to build trust, psychological safety, and stronger professional relationships
- Apply simple thinking tools (like CTFAR and the Ladder of Inference) to become more aware of your reactions and improve how you listen
- Integrate active listening as a daily habit—not just a skill, but a natural way of communicating
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Course content
5 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 11m total length
Requirements
- No prior knowledge or experience with active listening is needed
- A willingness to reflect on your own communication habits and improve them
- Openness to listening without judgment and trying new approaches in conversations
- Basic ability to understand and follow spoken English
Description
Learn how to listen with more focus, empathy, and confidence, so you can communicate better in every area of your life.
Active listening is one of the most important communication skills you can develop. Whether you are speaking with a colleague, client, friend, partner, family member, or team member, the ability to truly listen can help you build trust, reduce misunderstandings, strengthen relationships, and respond with greater clarity.
In this course, you’ll discover simple, practical techniques to become a better listener in everyday conversations, work meetings, relationships, and difficult discussions. You’ll learn how to stay present, understand what others really mean, ask better questions, avoid interrupting, and respond in a way that makes people feel heard, valued, and respected.
Many people think listening is passive, but effective listening is an active skill. It requires attention, patience, emotional awareness, and the ability to focus on the other person without rushing to judge, fix, or respond. This course will help you recognize common listening mistakes and replace them with practical habits you can use immediately.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn how to:
Give your full attention during conversations
Show empathy without pretending to agree with everything
Ask thoughtful follow-up questions
Listen for meaning, emotion, and intention
Avoid interrupting or preparing your response too early
Use body language and verbal cues to show you are engaged
Handle difficult conversations with more calm and confidence
Make others feel genuinely heard and understood
This course is designed to be clear, practical, and easy to follow. You don’t need any previous communication training or special experience. The lessons are suitable for beginners and for anyone who wants to improve how they connect with others.
Whether you want to improve your communication skills, build stronger personal relationships, become more effective at work, support others more thoughtfully, or simply have better conversations, this course will give you practical tools you can apply right away.
By the end of this course, you’ll feel more confident in your ability to listen with focus, respond with empathy, and create conversations that feel more meaningful, respectful, and productive.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals (developers, team members, managers) who want to communicate more effectively and build stronger relationships at work
- People who feel they are “listening,” but still experience misunderstandings, tension, or unproductive conversations
- Anyone who wants to handle difficult conversations with more clarity, calmness, and confidence
- People interested in personal growth who want to turn active listening into a daily habit.