Personal Strategy For Uncompromising Life

One of these ways is to practice being an active listener. Rephrasing and summarizing what the speaker is saying and repeating key points while writing them down will help me listen the entire time someone is speaking. I am privileged to have plenty of opportunities to attend lectures that are given at my work place. I chose to attend a lecture this week for the sole purpose of practicing my listening skills. During the lecture I practiced being an active listener. I made mental note of key words and phrases and wrote down main points that were not clear so that I could resort and do further research after the lecture. I also focused my attention to the speaker’s mannerism to help me identify which messages were most important to understand. This practice session taught me the most effective way to absorb information given through an oral

Talking and listening are essential life skills. The ability to talk in order to communicate and exchange ideas and information, to negotiate with others, to express feelings and emotions, allows human beings to function well in the world and to be full and active members of society. Communication, to be effective, requires the ability to listen, to understand and to make sense of what is heard. On the personal level, when we listen, we give attention to the other person in such a way as to allow them to feel heard, understood and therefore respected. In that way, listening is more than

It also helps to sit facing someone with impaired hearing; seeing your lips will make your words more

-clear speech-in order to help people to understand you are saying, speak clearly, don't cover your mouth with your hands or turn away from the person.

- use not only verbal but non verbal communication skills like smile, nodding , eye contact etc.

To communicate effectively we must understand and ‘apply’ the ‘rules’ of the structure used in language and be able to vocalise this through speech. We must also hear and understand the speech of others through our ability to listen and to interpret body language and facial

• When learning a new skill, it can help auditory learners to go over steps out loud as they

The ability to speak and listen effectively can mean the difference between succeeding and failing in a job.

* I am good listener I allow people to speak and make eye contact quite regularly so the person I am listening to knows they have my undivided attention.

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus’s views on courage are similar to those of Steve Pavlina. Atticus believes that courage is taking risks even if one knows that there is a chance of failure. In “The Courage To Live Consciously” by Steve Pavlina. the author writes about facing fears and what is actually means to have courage. Pavlina discusses ways to work up to one’s greatest fear, starting small. He tells the readers that it will be hard to face a fear and to take step towards a certain goal but the chance of success is worth it in the end. Atticus Finch shares his definition of courage with his kids in To Kill A Mockingbird. He said, "I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of

As the speaker continues more information is given. The listener is then able to collect the verbal and non-verbal data to gain a better understanding of what is being communicated (Eunson 2008: 310).

Being able to take in the information that is presented and being able to apply it is a crucial tool that is needed in order to be successful. One of the assignments that we were given in ENGR 1000 was that we were tasked to see what type of learner we were. Everyone has their own unique way of learning and I myself feel that I am more of a visual learner than verbal. There are eight different characteristics on a scale from one to ten which means there can be fifty thousand and four hundred different possibilities. This is why it is important to know and understand what type of learner you are because you are only one of that fifty thousand and four hundred. You could and are very likely spinning your wheels trying to learn things the wrong way if you truly don’t understand how you learn. I can read a book cover to cover and at the end, sometimes I could not tell you what I have just read. After taking that survey I was surprised at how much I was heavily leaning only on visual and not verbal. Just this one alone was putting me at a disadvantage in my education because I was only really taking in half of what I could be. I have started to rely different learning styles so that I can be more we

With this, I prefer to see and read information to full gain comprehension. If I forget the data, or not clearly understand it the first time read, I have the option of reading it over. I do not always trust myself to absorb all information the first time around. I take a lot of notes to look at. Notes help me remember even though I may not read the again, I can refer to them in my mind after writing them down. I am not sure if just anyone reading them would get anything out of it, but at least I know what they mean.

Second, effective note-taking skills are considered indispensable for a consecutive interpreter as one could not memorize all the information delivered by the speaker, note-taking helps interpreters to recall and reproduce accurately what has been said. Mahmoodzadeh (as cited in Alexieva, 1993, pp.199-203) emphasizes that it is impossible for the interpreter to remember all that is said in lectures, negotiations or press conferences even with the best of memory, particularly when names, dates and figures are involved. For example, if the witness in a police interview

Better listening leads to better recollection of important info this results in fewer mistakes. Thus, attention to good listening technique is important when complex issues are involved.