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Thursday, October 27, 2005
Thursday, October 20, 2005
What is Active listening?
Defining Active listening: Active listening is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding. It is made up of three components;
Hearing
Interpreting
Assigning a contextual meaning.
The Process of listening is organized into three steps not because I say so but, due to the biological process which regulates listening.
The proof of good listening is an appropriate response.
- Judi Brownell
Most of us would not differentiate between hearing and listening. This is mostly due to the conditioning that all of us go through in the school which says Ear is for Hearing
There is a big difference. You can hear the noise, but you have to listen ....
Friday, October 14, 2005
Listening skills: Tips and Techniques
Listening skills v/s Hearing
Almost all of us are born with the ability to Hear. As we grow older, right from day one, we begin to develop our listening skills, i.e. Interpret what we hear and give a contextualized meaning to the sounds. So listening is not an inborn talent, but something we develop out of practice. It is a cognitive process in psychological terms. Irrespective of how good one might be, we all can do a better job at listening. All too often we are being referred to the saying;
God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason - Use it in that proportion.
I have first hand experience in this area and the techniques that .......
Almost all of us are born with the ability to Hear. As we grow older, right from day one, we begin to develop our listening skills, i.e. Interpret what we hear and give a contextualized meaning to the sounds. So listening is not an inborn talent, but something we develop out of practice. It is a cognitive process in psychological terms. Irrespective of how good one might be, we all can do a better job at listening. All too often we are being referred to the saying;
God gave us two ears and one mouth for a reason - Use it in that proportion.
I have first hand experience in this area and the techniques that .......
Monday, October 10, 2005
Interrupting and Empowering: A new perspective
Most of the communication skills courses tell us not to interrupt. I think they are leaving out an important and natural power. Interrupting need not be only in a conversation. It has many garbs. You may be interrupting your sleep to read this article and some times, it is a good thing to do. So instead of casting away it as an unnecessary behavior, utilize it in the following way.
Due to the ritualistic living that we are undergoing, it is quite easy to adjust ourselves into a stereotype and react to circumstances.
This is one of the reasons everything stays mediocre instead of the Grand. We often interrupt or grand ideas and empower mediocrity because it is familiar and we won’t be seen as fools. If you reverse this process, i.e. interrupt mediocrity and empower creativity, you will have lot more satisfaction and success.
Next time you catch yourself thinking of a problem interrupt that thinking and empower your self to look for the solution rather than keep staring at the problem. Who says learning communication skills can be boring? We get a whole new dimension don’t we?
Have Fun
Sri Hari
Skills for the Next Level
Due to the ritualistic living that we are undergoing, it is quite easy to adjust ourselves into a stereotype and react to circumstances.
This is one of the reasons everything stays mediocre instead of the Grand. We often interrupt or grand ideas and empower mediocrity because it is familiar and we won’t be seen as fools. If you reverse this process, i.e. interrupt mediocrity and empower creativity, you will have lot more satisfaction and success.
Next time you catch yourself thinking of a problem interrupt that thinking and empower your self to look for the solution rather than keep staring at the problem. Who says learning communication skills can be boring? We get a whole new dimension don’t we?
Have Fun
Sri Hari
Skills for the Next Level
Monday, October 03, 2005
Focussing on the Principles
Forget techniques and learn principles:
A lot of managers are fond of using something called a Sandwich technique. It is situation where you slip in a negative comment or feedback layered in between two positive comments. It is a good technique no doubt. But if you repeat it to the same old staff for 2 years, it means you are not capable of innovating. People get conditioned to any one particular behavior over time and so the technique looses its impact.
We all develop a favorite way of reacting to situations. We gather these techniques by experience and learning from others. What we eventually have forgotten is that they are just techniques, and are replaceable. Something like software programs which almost always get replaced by a better version.
But since it works so well to us, we get possessive about it and find our selves bound by it. It becomes difficult to break that mould. A person in a mould is like a frog in the well. He has limited reach and limited awareness.
Technique is like giving fish to a hungry man while understanding a principle is like teaching him fishing. So instead of getting all cluttered up with techniques understand the principles driving them. You will find many on my website.
Have Fun
Sri Hari
Skills for the Next Level
A lot of managers are fond of using something called a Sandwich technique. It is situation where you slip in a negative comment or feedback layered in between two positive comments. It is a good technique no doubt. But if you repeat it to the same old staff for 2 years, it means you are not capable of innovating. People get conditioned to any one particular behavior over time and so the technique looses its impact.
We all develop a favorite way of reacting to situations. We gather these techniques by experience and learning from others. What we eventually have forgotten is that they are just techniques, and are replaceable. Something like software programs which almost always get replaced by a better version.
But since it works so well to us, we get possessive about it and find our selves bound by it. It becomes difficult to break that mould. A person in a mould is like a frog in the well. He has limited reach and limited awareness.
Technique is like giving fish to a hungry man while understanding a principle is like teaching him fishing. So instead of getting all cluttered up with techniques understand the principles driving them. You will find many on my website.
Have Fun
Sri Hari
Skills for the Next Level
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