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Ten Ways to Improve your Listening skills
1. Find area of interest - maintain eye contact even if the subject appears boring. There will be
some information that will be useful.
2. Judge the content, not delivery. Find out what the speaker knows, not how he presents it.
3. Withhold evaluation until comprehension is complete – don’t become preoccupied with
rebuttal before idea is completely presented. Don’t listen defensively.
4. Listen for ideas
- main ideas, central facts, organizational patterns.
5. Be flexible in notetaking.
6. Work at listening - spend energy to give conscious attention.
7. Resist distractions - a matter of concentration.
8. Exercise your mind - develop an appetite for hearing a variety. of presentations difficult
enough to challenge your mental capacities
9. Keep your mind open - be careful of emotional impact of certain words - don’t listen
defensively composing a rebuttal.
10. Capitalize on thought speed.
Speech speed - 100-200 words per minute
Thought speed - 400-500 or more words per minute.
Take advantage of differential - do not allow distractions during this time.
TEN WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING SKILLS
Ten Ways to Improve your Listening skills
1. Find area of interest - maintain eye contact even if the subject appears boring. There will be
some information that will be useful.
2. Judge the content, not delivery. Find out what the speaker knows, not how he presents it.
3. Withhold evaluation until comprehension is complete – don’t become preoccupied with
rebuttal before idea is completely presented. Don’t listen defensively.
4. Listen for ideas
5. Be flexible in notetaking.
6. Work at listening - spend energy to give conscious attention.
7. Resist distractions - a matter of concentration.
8. Exercise your mind - develop an appetite for hearing a variety. of presentations difficult
enough to challenge your mental capacities
9. Keep your mind open - be careful of emotional impact of certain words - don’t listen
defensively composing a rebuttal.
10. Capitalize on thought speed.
Speech speed - 100-200 words per minute
Thought speed - 400-500 or more words per minute.
Take advantage of differential - do not allow distractions during this time.
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