Learn To Listen And Improve Your Skills

By N. George

Worth Noting:

• Those with good listening skills should be happy about them while those with poor listening skills should come up with strategies than aim at improving or sharpening their listening skills. Some of the habits that they should incorporate are explain below.
• Non-interruption of others while speaking. Failure to interfere with the speaker or doer of an action plays several major roles which include helping the listener to hear maximum amount of information being transmitted, understanding the sequence of events as the narration continuous, letting the narrator or actioner to remain in focus due to non-diversion from your side, promote actioner to see patience in you with him which in turn builds trust and more and more information both in quantity and confidentiality is disseminated.

Being human makes us social in nature. We regularly interact with other people as well and our environment. Whenever we interact we hear and feel what is happening around us and react towards that. We may also be the initiators of actions or change so whenever we do this we expect response to our actions or inactions.

To arrive at the desired results we are required to research and understand thoroughly on the cause and effect of every action or inaction. Whatever the response we get aids us in knowing the next course of action. If the response is as per expectation then we are assured that we applied the correct methodology. Should the response deviate from our expectations it clicks into our minds that either the method applied was wrong or we have misinterpreted the outcome.

Why need to research? What is the importance of correct interpretation? We carry our research to learn about previous tendencies or behaviours of certain projects that are of great concern to us. Correct interpretation will help us ascertain the actual effects of processes under the study.

We may have the right results but poor interpretation may limit our understanding about the matter under study. This interpretation is heavily influenced by our knowledge about the subject matter, our body health more so the ears, eyes and the skin.

An additional factor is how attentive we are, good concentration with whatever we are doing helps us to leap maximum benefits for example keen listening will help us to hear every bit of audio communication, staying focused while observing an action will help us deepen our understanding of the subject for instance paying attention to body language will give more impact to the information which we have heard.

A happy football fan who is cheering his team for scoring a goal may be clapping his hands and broadly smiling to express his delight in the team. A teacher on duty cautioning late comers that in future they will be punished may put a stern face to show the seriousness of his assertions.

Those with good listening skills should be happy about them while those with poor listening skills should come up with strategies than aim at improving or sharpening their listening skills. Some of the habits that they should incorporate are explain below.

Non-interruption of others while speaking. Failure to interfere with the speaker or doer of an action plays several major roles which include helping the listener to hear maximum amount of information being transmitted, understanding the sequence of events as the narration continuous, letting the narrator or actioner to remain in focus due to non-diversion from your side, promote actioner to see patience in you with him which in turn builds trust and more and more information both in quantity and confidentiality is disseminated.

Upon completion of narration you are able to ask relevant and comprehensive questions having taken your time to listen and think about the issue in depth.

Be sensitive to the issues being communicated. Becoming sensitive to the communicator builds a good rapport between the listener and the communicator. It helps the communicator to feel accepted, understood and friendly with you.

There is also relieve feeling in the side of the person talking after pouring out whatever was disturbing him. When you listen paying attentive to the required level of sensitivity and respond in a similar rhythm you will be able to give a highly impactful response.

Regulate your eye contact. Whenever facing someone who is talking to you, you should not stare at that person to avoid intimidating him. Much as you should look at him at times you need to shift your eyes up and down as well as sideways.

Looking at a person in the eye indicates that you are paying attention to the speaker and the message and you are caring about the communication.

Request for clarification. When listening to someone any unclear message or missing information should be sought from the speaker instead of making conclusions which at times may be misleading. Through enquiry you will be able to enhance your level of understanding of what is being spoken.  Asking for more information will also serve as a signal that you understand what is being discussed and also show that you are interested with the issue at hand.

Let your question be open ended. Asking non limiting questions will help you gather maximum information possible. It will also give more liberty to the speaker to explain the situation in broad sense. By becoming open in mind you position yourself at advantage when it comes to leaning new details and enhance you decision making abilities.

If you are poor in listening start learning new skills to become good, if you are already good there is a room for improvement and become better, if you classify yourself as a better listener learn more skills and be the best listener, retainer of information and thoughtful decision maker.