Active Listening Skill–Listen Others to Grow & get Listened

The ability to listen is a key ingredient to become a successful leader. Not only a Leader, but Active Listening is essential to be successful as a parent, supervisor, friend and spouse. Whichever role we play in our life, Active Listener gets an edge in all these aspects. A person who listens to others with empathy, without interrupting and being judgmental earns love and respect from people, both in the workplace and personal life.
This course covers the Importance of Listening, How you got to be the listener you are, Barriers between the speaker and listener, Listening to Yourself, Making Listening Work for you and finally Getting Others to Listen to you.
Great listeners always listen to others with – empathy, Keep an open and curious mind, Listen for new ideas, listen from the heart to help stay non-judgemental, be introspective and have the capacity and desire to critically examine the content, understand the intent.
Think of a situation. You went to meet your supervisor in his/her office to discuss something important. But you find that your supervisor busy typing something on his/her laptop while you are speaking! What will you feel? For sure, you will be feeling neglected and will not like to continue! Your supervisor might be excellent at multitasking, but if we do not listen to the speaker with eye contact and showing visible interest, it can turn any speaker off!