The Art of
Listening Workshop
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Listening is the key ingredient to be integrated by
organizations and their staff in order to transform the
organizational culture into one that fosters acceptance,
support and empowerment in order to achieve a shared
goal.
According to the International Listening
Association, 45% of our time is actually
spent listening, while we are
distracted, preoccupied, or forgetful
75% of that time.
The adult attention span averages
twenty-two seconds and right after
listening to someone we usually recall
about half of what we've actually heard.
Within a few hours we remember about
20%.
- Less than 5% of adults have had actual
listening skills training.
- How many of you have been taught to
speak? How many of you have been taught
to listen?
- When surveyed, organizational and
business leaders rated listening as the
most important skill for their
companies.
- While Listening is [100%] of effective
communication, high schools and colleges
offer courses in public speaking but
nothing is available in "public"
listening.
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The Art of Listening Workshops have been designed to
take a look at how we communicate, how we listen, and
how we interpret the information and emotions being
expressed from one individual to another. The filters,
biases, stereotypes, judgments, and assessments we
listen through often cloud true communication and halt
effective dialogue, causing confusion and
misunderstandings. These Workshops are organized around
experiential exercises, discussions and lecture that
will teach the tools necessary for effective listening
and is suitable for anyone in your organization.
- Do the dynamics of your organization
promote effective communication for
achieving its goals?
- Are you interested in improving your
sales and your bottom line?
- Is "getting everyone on the same page" a
concern in your organization?
- Do you feel some people are not giving
100% and you don't know why?
- Do projects typically start well and
then bog down in miscommunications and
broken agreements?
- Do you want to take your staff to the
next level?
- Is your staff becoming diverse and
misunderstandings are occurring?
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Listening is an art. It is the art of educating our
ears, our minds, and our eyes. Listening is at
the heart of communication. While hearing is an
involuntary physical act listening is a voluntary
act that occurs when an individual uses all of their
senses to understand and relate to another. Learning
to listen is the essential skill that creates
relationships that leads to understanding and mutual
respect. Deep heart listening is going beneath the
surface, back and forth between what you hear and
what you don't hear but sense. What you hear with
your ears to what you feel down to your bones. This
form of listening unlocks layer and layer of meaning
from one individual to another. We interpret what we
hear according to the way we listen. Words have no
meaning, people have meaning and meaning comes from
inside of us. We give words their meaning. According
to psychologist Carl Rogers, "Deep Listening is a
life long practice". Going into the heart is a life
long practice. Therefore, the more you learn how to
listen the more you listen.
Because our experiences, knowledge, and attitudes
differ we often misinterpret each other while
believing that a common understanding has been
accomplished. Read More
About Listening
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