The Problem Of Active Listening

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

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.

In the book of “Why dont we listen better?” by James C. Peterson, he provides the readers with a strategic understanding of listening and how executing the skill can significantly impact your social life. While reading this book, I noticed a lot of repetition stated by Mr. Peterson, a method in which I found to be very interesting and helpful. Alongside of repetition, he also introduced various methods used to effectively communicate with each other separated into five sections. Part One: Options in Communicating, Part Two: The Talker-Listener Process, Part Three: The Listening Techniques, Part Four: Using the TLC in groups, and Part Five: Concluding Philosophy.

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.

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.

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

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.

The techniques that I used in my practicum was active listening skills , when it came to the meetings I had to make sure I listen to all the information that was given so that I would be well prepared and equip to be beneficial to the students. During the meetings we also discussed emergency procedures to beware of all codes just in case a mishap happen while I was present. Also at this time I was able to ask my director questions to make sure I understood what was ask of me and express my concerns. Every month my placement did a practice drill so the students beware of the routine in case of an emergency. The skills that was helpful when it came to helping the students to finish their homework was patience, listening skills, observer, critical

In the patient interview, I used a variety of active listening techniques. During the patient’s responses, I would nod my head and respond with an okay or a follow-up question. To show the patient that I understood what they were sharing, I also included several summarizations throughout. Including more of the other techniques such as validations and affirmations could have helped me to build better rapport with the patient.

How does the Active Listening Process and Barriers to Active Listening work when you are not face-to-face during the conversation? Is it easy to misunderstand what someone is typing when you are unable to add body language, inflection and tone to the conversation?

Active listening is one of the best approaches for the conflict resolution. Conflict is not always bad. It becomes negative when it is recurring and unsolvable conflict. The positivity and the negativity of the conflict depend on the nature of the conflict and the way it has been managed. With Active Listening, The involved parties can listen to each other in the mutual respect to clear any misunderstanding that could be the source of their conflict.

It is inevitable to be surrounded by sounds. No matter where you go, there will never be a place without sound. This is precisely why causal and deep listening are both necessary skills to have. In my paper I will address the theme of how deep listening makes us better understand the world and the importance of adhering to both causal listening and deep listening. I intend to show that by analyzing the differences in causal listening and deep listening and by referencing the works of Hendy, Chion, and Novak, as well as my own personal experiences.

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.

There are five stages of listening, receiving, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding. The five stages overlap. In receiving, you need to focus your attention, maintain your role and avoid assuming that you understand. In understanding, it is important that you see the speaker’s messages from their point of view. It is also helpful to rephrase their message to be clear and also ask questions to clarify or confirm that you understand their message. The third stage is remembering, you need to focus on the main idea, organize what you hear, combine what you knew previously and repeat important information to yourself such as names and information. Next is evaluating, you should wait until you fully understand what the speaker