Active Listening Relationship

Listening to a conversation with person always maintains your personal relationship, professional work related and some other activities. In this article ’The Art of Listening’ what I really liked and found important was, the author

Active listening is a great way of showing someone you are paying attention to them. I used active listening throughout my interview and I think I used it very well. I was able to listen and collect

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 begins from the very first meeting and is very important that the client knows that you are hearing them and succinctly understanding what they’re saying, and also to allow the therapist to gather as much information as possible, clearly and fairly.  This initial process will also serve to allow the client to gain enough information about the practitioner that they feel comfortable and confident in their abilities to help them. This will be achieved through a combination of clear information given about the practise itself and the rapport and trust the client feels with the therapist. If there is no rapport or potential for a trusting relationship between the two, the therapy will be ineffective. It’s a therapist’s responsibility to know when they are not in a position to work with a client, for any reason.

Collins (2009) explains how support is the most distinguishing factor in coaching (Collins, 2009, p. 85). The client needs to feel supported and respected to make strides in coaching (Collins, 2009, p. 85). I believe by welcoming my client and actively listening to the information being shared, as well as, guiding instead of giving advice, my client will be able to see I am committed to the coaching. I believe when these skills are presented and maintained within the coaching process, the client will be more willing to tackle difficult

After completing the reading for the chapter on listening I found it interesting on how there are many aspects and different kinds of listening that I had not known of prior to reading the chapter. One part of the chapter that I found to be intriguing was the part on the different kinds of listening styles. When we listen to people speak we are able to use different styles depending on the conversation. For example, when we use relational listening we try to relate to how the others are feeling. Recently I have used relational listening in the wake of the MSD shooting. Being that my sister currently attends the school and I graduated from the school in 2014, I had spoken to many of my friends and current students that were affected by this

Therapeutic alliance is an essential element of Interpersonal Psychotherapy. Wurm, Robertson, & Rushton, (2008) postulates establishing productive a therapeutic alliance is more important than any techniques. Therefore, the basic tenet of IPT is that all interventions should be therapeutic and seek to enhance the therapeutic alliance. Active listening is a critical part of building the relationship. Weissman et al., (2007) suggests that there should be an effective balance between activity and active listening. In addition to active listening, being able to communicate empathy, relate to the client’s experiences, exercising effective reflection and creative reframing also indirectly bring about therapeutic change and is will valuable to

There are a number of attending skill needed for a counselor to be successful in developing trust and rapport with a client. These skills include eye contact, warmth, body posture, vocal style, verbal following, and overall empathy (focus on client) (Kanel, p. 51). It is said that of all these skills, the most valuable skill is listening, as this one, helps show the client that you care, and two, helps the counselor to identify the issue at hand and helps the client find practical solutions. Being a good listener also will helps to build rapport, which is a major necessity. In our text Kanal (2014) states, “People

In one stage of communication, the quality of conversation can be improved when the workers are engaged in active listening. For instance, note taking during meetings which challenge both individual listening and writing skills, encourages co-workers to improve their sort-term memory to be more active later that day (Hybels & Weaver 2008,). It helps listeners to verify their understanding, and it gives the other person an opportunity to elaborate on main point of the information. Active and effective listening behaviours have a huge impact on the growth of business in the work place, because it shows the interaction between co-workers and how they deal with problems in their environment (Eunson 2012). Active and effective listening demonstrates the ability of workers to hear and feel what the other people want so say without judgment. Thus, active and effective listening skills have positively impact on the workplace.

Effective listening is a way of showing concern for clients that fosters cohesive bonds, commitment, and trust. Effective listening tends to reduce the frequency of interpersonal conflict and increases the likelihood that when conflicts emerge they will be resolved quickly and effectively. In addition, if you listen to the people you manage to learn more about your client. Using effective listening helps clients feel worthy, appreciated and respected. When a therapist give clients all of their attention the client responds positively by interacting on a deeper level such as disclosing personal information or by becoming more relaxed. When a therapist pays particular attention to what the client is saying they are encouraging the client to continue talking, as well as ensuring communication remains open and positive. Effective listening uses skills such as paraphrasing what the client says, responding to clients, use of silence, clarifying what client

Using the “listen” concept posited in the CLEAR coaching method, the coach can learn to become more proficient in listening for what is both verbalized and that which is not verbalized – true or not true (Coe, Zehnder, & Kinlaw, 2008). The tone of voice and body language

As I have not had a lot of practice with this I felt like I still did miss some information and when trying to summarise some of the information gathered I lost my train of thought and was not able to execute these principles properly. Active listening allows empathy and appreciation towards the information that is being shared, this helps the client believe that what they are saying is seen as valuable and that you have their best interests at hand (Gonzalez, 2009). This is what I would like my clients to feel when I am conducting an initial

Active listening is an attentive and interactive form of listening. One of the primary objectives of active listening is establishing and achieving empathy among all parties engaged in communication together. The words a person uses during communication are important, yet active listening includes listening to a person's words as well as interpreting and intuiting what a person feels and thinks. Active listening is a highly engaging activity. Active listening requires the person doing the listening to have a very keen awareness of all aspects of the communication. Active listening then is a sensory activity that challenges the listener to see, hear, sense, perceive, understand, feel, empathize, and reciprocate.

Listening is more than just hearing. The process of listening involves receiving and constructing meaning, and responding to verbal and/or nonverbal messages. In other words, listening is not always easy and being a good listener is all about developing listening skills. To receive messages appropriately we have to listen actively. Active listening can be broken down into three important skills; first of all you have to reflect the feelings that the person is communicating, secondly reflect the content that they are communicating and finally ask good, meaningful questions.