Active Listening Process

active listening is about giving your full attention and watching not just what is being said but how its being said. This can be observed by watching their body language, gestures and other signals.

Effective communication is not just about speaking and listening. It is also about watching and feeling. Our body language and tone of voice actually communicate more strongly than the words we use. So, listening effectively involves tuning in closely to the other person’s body language and tone of voice as well as their words.

My predominant listening style would be task-oriented. I say this because the other styles do not describe me. Rational-oriented listeners are relaxed and pleasant while listening to very emotional speeches, while I find them uncomfortable. For example, if a person should describe the hardships of their lives and break into tears, I would most likely find myself avoiding looking at them or blocking them out. Not because I am unsympathic to their plight, but because I am a reserved person, and I believe that such ardent feelings should be kept within, aside from one’s confidants. Analytical-oriented listeners enjoy droves of input from the speaker with an overbearing amount of facts and data. I find these speeches mundane. For example, a teacher who in history class is giving a lecture about

During the conversation, there were a few times where we got confused by what one of us was trying to say. During these times, we stopped the conversation and used different signs and fingerspelling to make sure the message was brought across correctly and everyone understood what was being said. This is quite a lot different then what happens in the hearing world

The Office is an NBC produced show that provided comedy on Thursday nights for eight years. The Office is all about the employees of Dunder Mifflin who live in Scranton Pennsylvania (the electric city). The documentary style show films the employees working at the paper as well as filming their personal lives. An average episode of The Office is typically thirty minutes long. But the series had a few hour long episodes, depending on if it was the beginning of the season, or the end. The series finale is one of the few episodes that was an hour long. The series finale displays many different types of listening that was explained in class. Listening is important to any and all types of conversation. Without it, it would be impossible to receive and interpret messages.

Listening is a skill that requires active, rather than passive, participation to advance shared understanding and minimise misinterpretation. Lang, Floyd and Beine (2000) describe active listening as a skill that ‘focuses on attending to patients’ clues, ie, utterances and/or behaviors that are not explicit but may have special meaning and suggest unshared ideas, concerns, and expectations’. This essay will discuss how active listening strategies such as analysing and displaying non-verbal body language, clarifying meaning and accuracy, expressing understanding for the speaker’s feelings through empathy and silence contribute to effective communication by encouraging the speaker to convey his or her thoughts, building trust and

Active listening is also an integral part in the receipt of a message. Part of a listener’s responsibility is to provide feedback, making communication a two-person affair, and as important, senders must seek out and attend to the feedback that is offered by their receivers (Cheesebro, O’Connor, Rios, 2010). By actively listening to the sender, we can translate and respond to the message appropriately. Through active listening, we can develop respect and trust with the sender, increase productivity, maintain a “cooler head”, increased confidence and remembering the important information that the sender is trying to convey to us (Cheesebro, O’Connor, Rios, 2010). It is believed that we only take in 50% of what we are listening to at any given time so it is crucial that in communication, we extend to each other the same courtesy as the sender as we do as the receiver. Active listening is more than just hearing what the sender is

1. The medical worker was not focused on the patient. She answered her phone and interrupted the patient by calling out to a co-worker.

There are several ways to actively listen. Use nonverbal cues such as making eye contact with the speaker. This lets the speaker know that they have your attention. Pay attention to the speaker’s nonverbal cues and respond accordingly. A good listener shows empathy and respect to the speaker. It is important for the speaker to know that they are being listened to and that the listener shows interest in the speaker’s message.

Active listening is a technique which the listener in the conversation will repeat the message they have heard back to the speaker, in order to gain confirmation that their understanding is correct. The idea is that in communication there are distractions; for example, in a conversation the parties' communication may be waiting for a pause in the conversation so that they can speak; this detracts from the attention they are paying to the speaker. Likewise, if one party to the conversation

Active listening shows the person you are listening to that you are doing just that: listening. By displaying appropriate body language and positioning, summarizing what the person has just told you, and following it with your own insight or comment, you show that you heard the person and understand what they are saying. Following that up

According to Central Maine Medical Center policy on temporary pacing, the pacer works to “deliver direct electrical stimulation to stimulate the myocardium to depolarize which initiates a mechanical contraction when the sinoatrial node is unable to do so.” Temporary pacing of the heart is indicated in multiple circumstances. It is primarily used after a valve surgery. However the pacer is also used for the maintenance of inadequate heart rate and rhythm during surgery, postoperative recovery, cardiac catheterization, coronary angioplasty, certain drug therapies that cause bradycardia and before implantation of a permanent pacemaker. It can also be used to stabilize heart beats after a myocardial infraction.

According to (Mind tools, 2017)Using active listening skills can help to minimize or avoid unnecessary conflict. It can bring clarity and understanding to conversations and interactions with other people. To work, the listener focuses on the words and the feelings of the speaker for understanding. Active listening happens when the listener

Determine the talker's needs during the interaction. At the beginning of a conversation, the talker may be tentative and not say what he or she means. Whether he or she continues often depends on the listener's initial response. Stay neutral and try to listen objectively. Direct, clear communication rarely occurs when information flows one way. Listening blocks are obstacles that interfere with our listening they

Active Listening It is most important to learn how to pay full attention to others as they communicate, and this process involves more than merely listening to the words. It involves absorbing the content, noting gestures and subtle changes in voice or expression, and