Applying Listening Skills to Effectively Communicate

Applying Listening Skills to Effectively Communicate

Research then apply your critical thinking and communication skills to write about empathic listening. Reflect then write about what you know and learn to describe and apply active listening. Utilize the articles and guiding questions provided to formulate your written response to the topic on empathic listening. Stephen Covey emphasized the importance to first listen to others to understand, without judgement, so to fully understand others – their intent – and to build trust with others. Covey also expressed the importance of investing your focus and time into others. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood®: The Habit of Empathic Communication The term Empathic listening, active listening when we sincerely strive to understand others’ viewpoints, is a communication skill that can help one with building trust and relationships. How good of a listener are you? For this essay, reference the Articles and Blogs and Videos, and watch the video by Dr Brené Brown’s video https://youtu.be/1Evwgu369Jw then utilize the discussion questions below to guide your written response. Include a description of strategies and techniques that you can use to practice and implement empathic listening skills with your friends, family, and in work contexts. Share examples and illustrate how you would approach empathic listening. Questions to guide your essay: What does it mean to be an empathic listener and how might you employ mindful listening? Research indicates that many executives and employees are not very good at listening, why do you think this is the case? In business environments, understanding workplace listening can help meet expectations from supervisors, colleagues, teammates, and customers. What are some ways workplace listening can be improved and what are some listening skills to increase listening effectiveness?