Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching GuideA proven program for turning effective listening into a powerfulbusiness tool Managers and other employees spend more than 40percent of their time listening to other people but often do it sopoorly that the result is misunderstood instructions, misdirectedprojects, and erroneous actions--millions of dollars' worth ofmistakes just because most people don't know how to listen. In thisnew edition of her classic guide to the art of effective listening,Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how to acquire active, productivelistening skills and put them to work for you--professionally,socially, and personally. With her time-tested techniques, you'lllearn how to: * Eliminate distractions and improve your concentration on what isbeing said * Locate key words, phrases, and ideas while listening * Cut through your own listening biases * Interpret body language clues * Ask constructive, nonthreatening questions that elicit realinformation * Get others to listen to you * Master a whole range of listening skills that you can use on thejob and in your personal life Listening: The Forgotten Skill uses an interactive learningapproach with work-sheets, charts, graphs, and self-tests that helpyou pace and monitor your own progress. |
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... stop them . Listening to five - year - olds can be an education ! Not many adults realize they have listening problems . When they do stop to think about what they do when they don't listen , adults manage to identify quite a few habits ...
... stop them . Listening to five - year - olds can be an education ! Not many adults realize they have listening problems . When they do stop to think about what they do when they don't listen , adults manage to identify quite a few habits ...
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... stop saying to yourself . Whenever you hear yourself say the negative statements , say to yourself , “ Stop — that's no longer true . What's now true for me is ( positive statement ) . ” Change the negative statement to a positive one ...
... stop saying to yourself . Whenever you hear yourself say the negative statements , say to yourself , “ Stop — that's no longer true . What's now true for me is ( positive statement ) . ” Change the negative statement to a positive one ...
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... stop disapproving and start approving of what is being said . This criticism can influence the talker to become self - con- scious , thus losing his or her train of thought , expressing him- or herself less clearly , or saying what he ...
... stop disapproving and start approving of what is being said . This criticism can influence the talker to become self - con- scious , thus losing his or her train of thought , expressing him- or herself less clearly , or saying what he ...
Contents
What Is Listening and What Can It Do for You? | 1 |
How You Got to Be the Listener You | 22 |
Barriers between Listener and Speaker | 46 |
Copyright | |
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