Reflective Listening Skills

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Reflective Listening Skills

Reflective Listening Skills are extremely important. In general, most people talk too much and simly don't listen!

Managers and other employees spend more than 40 percent of their time listening to other people but often do it so poorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirected projects, and erroneous actions—millions of dollars' worth of mistakes just because most people don't know how to listen. In this new edition of her classic guide to the art of effective listening, Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how to acquire active, productive listening skills and put them to work for you — professionally, socially, and personally. With her time-tested techniques, you'll learn how to:
  • Eliminate distractions and improve your concentration on what is being said
  • Locate key words, phrases, and ideas while listening
  • Cut through your own listening biases
  • Interpret body language clues
  • Ask constructive, non-threatening questions that elicit real information
  • Get others to listen to you
  • Master a whole range of listening skills that you can use on the job and in your personal life

 

Download the audio book Listening: The Forgotten Skill by Madelyn Burley-Allen.

 

Hearing vs Listening 

We hear, provided our hearing is healthy, but we often don't listen. Here's the definition and explanation what hearing is:

Humans can generally hear sounds with frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. Human hearing is able to discriminate small differences in loudness (intensity) and pitch (frequency) over that large range of audible sound. This healthy human range of frequency detection varies significantly with age, occupational hearing damage, and gender; some individuals are able to hear pitches up to 22 kHz and perhaps beyond, while others are limited to about 16 kHz. The ability of most adults to hear sounds above about 8 kHz begins to deteriorate in early middle age.

When we hear something, it's just sound waves reaching our ears and then being forwarded to our brain. If we are ACTIVELY listening, then we absorb what we hear, we think about it and we store it in our short term memory, maybe we will later even add it to our long term memory. To listen is an active effort, hearing is passive.

An active listener is what we all like. If somebody is listening to you, you feel good, you get the impression that your conversation partner is valueing what you say and that he takes your words seriously. Developing listening skills is important, and with just a little effort and the right techniques, everybody can master this valuable skill in a short time.

Communication Skills 

Why Listening is more Important than Speaking

Communication Skills are very important in our hectic and highly coimmunicative society.

But most people think that communication is talking, telling others about everthing and anything one thinks is important.

But communication is not a one way street! Communicare - the word that is the origin for comunication - means interaction between two or more people. So it's not about monologues, but dialogues.

For a dialogue to be a meaningful exchange of ideas and opinions, both or all parties involved in this dialogue need to be ready to also listen to what the others have to say.

This is why listening skills, especially reflective listening skills are so important!

Listening and Hearing - A Definition 

Hearing (or audition) is one of the traditional five senses. It is the ability to perceive sound by detecting vibrations via an organ such as the ear. The inability to hear is called deafness.

In humans and other vertebrates, hearing is performed primarily by the auditory system: vibrations are detected by the ear and transduced into nerve impulses that are perceived by the brain (primarily in the temporal lobe). Like touch, audition requires sensitivity to the movement of molecules in the world outside the organism. Both hearing and touch are types of mechanosensation.

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The Human Ear 

The ear is the organ that detects sound. The vertebrate ear shows a common biology from fish to humans, with variations in structure according to order and species. It not only acts as a receiver for sound, but plays a major role in the sense of balance and body position. The ear is part of the auditory system.

The word "ear" may be used correctly to describe the entire organ or just the visible portion. In most animals, the visible ear is a flap of tissue that is also called the pinna. The pinna may be all that shows of the ear, but it serves only the first of many steps in hearing and plays no role in the sense of balance. In people, the pinna is often called the auricle. Vertebrates have a pair of ears, placed symmetrically on opposite sides of the head. This arrangement aids in the ability to localize sound sources.

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