The Problem Of Active Listening

* active listening helps improve mutual understanding and sorting out problems – open up and say what they really mean

Effective listening is the most powerful of all leadership techniques for motivating employees. The habit of Learning to practice your listening can do more to improve your relationships at work and at home than any other places. Effective listening is essential to motivating employees. If you think about it, you always listen to someone who you value. You listen when your boss speaks to you. You listen when someone who you look up to and respect what you speak, or speak to you. The more important the other person is, the more you hang on every word, and the more influenced you are by what they say. Listen without disturbance, move forward, face the person speaking directly, nod, smile and be pleasurable. When you nod and smile, you encourage

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.

Active listening can be significantly impact a persons’ healthcare experience. When your only interaction with your caregiver occurs when they are obtaining clinical information from you, you can start to feel detached from your identity; one can feel more like an object than a subject. Jim Mulcahy expresses the profound effects non-evaluative active listening can have on someone through his own experiences in the healthcare system. Based on Mr. Mulcahys reflection it is important to maintain a balance of professional and personal communication with patients. For Mr. Mulcahy this behavior helped facilitate and encourage his recovery. Active listening is a gateway to developing a deeper understanding of patients’ feelings, and can help them

I once heard that most people typically listen to respond as opposed to listening to hear. This is a problem, especially in a position of trying to help another person. When people go for help, they need to feel that they are heard. When a person feels heard, they feel cared about. Feeling cared about builds trust because the person knows you understand their issues, and have their best intentions at heart.

Chris Cotter says that active listening is a complicated skill to learn because it requires an individual to be mentally engaged to the speaker’s tone of voice, and body language (Cotter). In other words, students need to be aware of both verbal and non-verbal messages. Louise Rehling says an effective means to start actively listening to focus on a what a group member is communicating, instead of thinking of a response at the same time. When a disagreement occurs in the group, members are expected to watch for body language and other cues to fully understand their group member thought process, instead of deeming them unhelpful for the group (482). When individuals feel that their voice is being heard then a trust among group members is strengthened and the quality of assignment is improved, thus listening skills is an important skill taught in group work. In the present day, a majority of companies want to create a relationship with their consumer. Employees that are able to actively listen to clients are better adept to understand the client and change the way they are communicating with the client.

I’m Jillian Ramsden and I’ve created The Listening Space in Cheltenham, Victoria to take a holistic approach to your health and well-being. I offer a range of counselling and psychotherapy techniques in a confidential, safe and secure environment. This is a non-judgmental place to talk about life and what is bothering you. Using an emotion-focused approach; I can help you overcome depression, anxiety, grief and loss, trauma or any other personal issues you may be facing.

I think this biggest thing I can do to make the most of my degree is to be an active. When I say active, I do not mean physical exercise. By being active I mean being an active listener, an active group member, and an active leader. By taking charge in these three areas, I really do believe that I can complete my goal of going to law school and eventually be employed as a corporate law firm in one of the major firms in Minneapolis.

Ever since you were little, you probably knew what you wanted to be when you get older. You had your mind set on one job you loved. Up until eighth grade I had always only had one job in mind and was positive I wanted to do it. When Mrs. Pennington showed us cfnc.org, it opened up so many different possibilities and it made me realize there were many different opportunities than just what I had thought.

The purpose of this group is to build the social skills of fourth and fifth grade girls to help them be more successful in school. More specifically, it will build positive friendships and create a more positive and productive school environment. The groups objectives will be focused on listening, interpersonal skills, teamwork, and social problem solving. The objectives should be measurable so that the counselor can evaluate if the group objectives were met or not (Sink, Edwards, & Eppler, 2012). The first objective is that students will be able to identify a personal social skill to improve and three small goals or steps to show improvement. The second objective is that students will demonstrate three active listening strategies during role

Trying to find a way to become more involved in my community outside of the university, I attended a pre-medical club meeting about volunteer opportunities my freshman year. My initial goal was to find something in a clinical setting. Many groups spoke about opportunities in hospice, patient transport in the nearest hospital, and after school education programs. Then The Listening Ear spoke about their organization, a crisis hotline center. While not the clinical setting I was looking for, I quickly realized the value this organization held for the community and how beneficial the skills I would gain working there would be for assisting future patients struggling with illness.

This semester I learned it is my job as the practitioner to listen to the clients tell their story, rather than try to be the person to solve their problems.

In using the AHA! Method to listen to my friend tell me about her loneliness, I learned how to be affirming and genuine while listening to someone. By using this method, I also learned that saying less and listening more helped my friend express her feelings more, whereas if I had added my opinion as to how she felt, it could've been conflicting and potentially stop my friend from feeling comfortable by saying anything further to me.

Since I can remember, my cousin Ricardo has been my best friend. He is not just my cousin, he is my brother and cousin (a Mexican terminology) at the same time because both of our parents are brothers and sisters. This, clearly, shows how close our relationship was, not only that, but my house at Mexico is just 3 blocks away from his. I remember how we used to see each other daily to play video games and spend time talking about our day or how we felt. As the years passed, our bond got stronger, no one could stop us. In fact, we practiced appreciative listening because we cared for our relation. I can tell that it had the three A’s of active listening. We had the attention that is required, good attitude, and adjustment. The interpersonal relationship

Active listening is defined as empathic understanding, congruence behavior, and unconditional positive regard is known to improve the social behavior of others. Perceiving active listening behavior in a soul mate can facilitate a positive interaction in terms of future behavior associated with a close connection experiences. Active listening behavior is a part of psychotherapy that has a positive effect on therapeutic personality changes which improve the impression of relevant experiences. Although, perceiving active listening might improve one’s impression of an experience. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of active listening are not well understood, particularly with respect to improving the impression of experiences. Some feels that active listening can facilitate positive relationships. An active