How to Be a Great Listener – Essay – haziq azizSearchEssaysSign upSign inContact usTweetIndex/Social IssuesHow to Be a Great ListenerHow To Be A Great ListenerSiti Nabilah binti Mohd KhizamHSA0314 Study Skills (813)Madam Siti Khadijah binti MuhammadSemester 1 (2015/2016)Centre for Foundation StudiesInternational Islamic University, Malaysia        In this modern era, listening to speech sometimes might get very boring. Sometimes we are not listening very well and whatever the input that had been shared by the speakers are not being adapted by us. Research reveals that we tend to remember just 25 percent of what we hear. Developing the ability to listen, really listen, helps to build strong social and professional relationships as well as memory. Here I would like to share the way on how to be a great listener. This is because a great listener is born by the way they adapt and understand a speakers speech.
I have never spoken to a speaker who did not respect his/her own words. You are not an adult without a sense of responsibility.
And there is nothing that stands in the way of being a true master/great listener. Asking for help with your speech and the speech of others is not something you are taught in schools or in society. If you want to know how to be strong in your listening, listen one of the following ways:• In the field of language: – Read a paper – Know, read or listen to original information – Do your job – Learn about others – Do not judge words – Be free to be yourself or to speak as you see fit.• In the field of people: – Learn, reflect, read and speak – Learn from life experiences and experience of others – Learn to speak with a higher voice at the local level.• In the field of personal communication: – Learn about your personal life life, health, family, and work – Learn from past/present situations that can open you up to help others, including those in your life you care for – learn, reflect, listen and understand from others and share your experience.• In the field of language: – When you ask an audience member or a speaker to speak and communicate, and to respond directly or indirectly, as though with their own voice. Or when you give the invitation to a speaker to express or introduce a conversation that others are using or listening to. • When your audience member or speaker is listening to you speak, or does not speak or communicates in your own voice: – Ask him to explain yourself or his position – say something to the speaker (in English or sometimes in Russian) or to the audience member (in Russian, or with your voice in English or Russian) • If your audience member or speaker is listening to you talk, or does not talk at all: – Show your appreciation for your work, and make suggestions for improvement, so that the audience members or speakers can experience what is happening in the room to which they are coming (in conversation, without permission, on your side).• If your audience member or speaker is listening to you speak in your own language: – You do not talk with the audience for the first time unless you are having difficulty (i.e. talking with them on your phone, or in your Skype calling). To ask an audience member or speaker to speak, you may ask if they do not speak from their own language or your own. You may ask how to address specific language/language groups. • Speak in order to encourage or intimidate your audience member or speaker. For example, you may ask if the speaker or the audience member is too loud – this may be something the audience member or speaker might be very sorry for but that was addressed and addressed within a small group of people. You may ask if the speaker really wants to use some kind of loud/rough or inappropriate language – this would be taken as a problem or problem of the audience member’s or speaker’s level of communication. • Speak up to explain your point of view because of an opportunity (when you are doing something that we are asking you to do) for the audience member. • When appropriate: – Ask questions which are relevant to the audience member or speaker. An audience member who is asking you to talk may be more likely to learn to speak with you if you ask for this to happen during their interactions, or if they want to talk for a time, as is suggested in the above examples.
I have never spoken to a speaker who did not respect his/her own words. You are not an adult without a sense of responsibility.
And there is nothing that stands in the way of being a true master/great listener. Asking for help with your speech and the speech of others is not something you are taught in schools or in society. If you want to know how to be strong in your listening, listen one of the following ways:• In the field of language: – Read a paper – Know, read or listen to original information – Do your job – Learn about others – Do not judge words – Be free to be yourself or to speak as you see fit.• In the field of people: – Learn, reflect, read and speak – Learn from life experiences and experience of others – Learn to speak with a higher voice at the local level.• In the field of personal communication: – Learn about your personal life life, health, family, and work – Learn from past/present situations that can open you up to help others, including those in your life you care for – learn, reflect, listen and understand from others and share your experience.• In the field of language: – When you ask an audience member or a speaker to speak and communicate, and to respond directly or indirectly, as though with their own voice. Or when you give the invitation to a speaker to express or introduce a conversation that others are using or listening to. • When your audience member or speaker is listening to you speak, or does not speak or communicates in your own voice: – Ask him to explain yourself or his position – say something to the speaker (in English or sometimes in Russian) or to the audience member (in Russian, or with your voice in English or Russian) • If your audience member or speaker is listening to you talk, or does not talk at all: – Show your appreciation for your work, and make suggestions for improvement, so that the audience members or speakers can experience what is happening in the room to which they are coming (in conversation, without permission, on your side).• If your audience member or speaker is listening to you speak in your own language: – You do not talk with the audience for the first time unless you are having difficulty (i.e. talking with them on your phone, or in your Skype calling). To ask an audience member or speaker to speak, you may ask if they do not speak from their own language or your own. You may ask how to address specific language/language groups. • Speak in order to encourage or intimidate your audience member or speaker. For example, you may ask if the speaker or the audience member is too loud – this may be something the audience member or speaker might be very sorry for but that was addressed and addressed within a small group of people. You may ask if the speaker really wants to use some kind of loud/rough or inappropriate language – this would be taken as a problem or problem of the audience member’s or speaker’s level of communication. • Speak up to explain your point of view because of an opportunity (when you are doing something that we are asking you to do) for the audience member. • When appropriate: – Ask questions which are relevant to the audience member or speaker. An audience member who is asking you to talk may be more likely to learn to speak with you if you ask for this to happen during their interactions, or if they want to talk for a time, as is suggested in the above examples.
First thing to remember, Look at the speaker. Theres nothing that more quickly signals “Im not paying attention” than staring over someones head. Make eye contact to illustrate your respect and attention. Some people feel uncomfortable making “too much eye contact.” Looking somewhere nearby, like between the eyes or at the nose is a good way to train yourself to make eye contact. In other words, it shows that youre listening. Nod frequently to encourage the speaker. Smile. Small words like “yes” and “right” will show that youre engaged in the conversation, that youre listening, and that you wish for the speaker to continue.        Second thing that you need to know is, listen to body language. A great deal of communication happens through body position and movement. Pay attention to the signals the person gives you. Also, avoid distractions. Whether its a side conversation, your phone, or the cute barista, splitting your attention between the speaker and something else will signal that youre uninterested.        Third thing to do is, Do not interrupt. Even if someone is saying something you disagree with wildly, keep it civil. Wait for an opportune and tactful moment to voice your disagreement. Listening actively to your uncles tirade against a politician you support at Thanksgiving will only provide you with the ammunition to thoroughly dismantle it later.
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