Active listening Video
learn how to improve your active listening skills
Watch this video on active listening can help polish communication skills. Active listening is essential for personal and career growth, understanding human nature, influencing people, and building relationships. In today’s fast-paced world of technology, everyone wants to be different and be heard and fewer people want to listen.
Sadly, true listening is resembling with a long-lost art that we need to re-learn. However, good listening skills require constant effort, full concentration, and implication. Other abilities, such as critical thinking, empathy, and creativity, rely on this simple yet underrated capability we develop from birth.
Active listening, a core skill and foundation of efficient communication
Actively listening is the foundation of efficient communication and a skill that helps us understand, recognise and influence people’s feelings. By mastering active listening, we can enhance our abilities to solve problems, facilitate a deeper understanding of people’s needs, emotions, and perspectives, and improve our well-being and the quality of our lives.
Active listening is a core skill that helps us concentrate on complex ideas and concepts. Good listening skills demonstrate a genuine interest in having meaningful conversations and creating stronger relationships. Also, active listening techniques reduce misunderstandings, help retain information and learn faster. Listening with attention and actively is a basic skill for learning and development.
This video session outline:
- Role of active listening skills in professional growth
- How to be a good listener
- 4 steps to improve active listening
- Empathetic listening
- Key takeaways to learning to listen actively
References:
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ed. Ponte (2014)
- Conference Paper, Figl, Kathrin & Bauer, Christine. (2008). Online Active Listening And Media Competence. 1. 207-214.