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Listen Up or Lose Out

Exam Questions: 40
Course Level: Basic
Pages: 296 | Content: 282, Supplemental: 14
NASBA Area of Study: Communications and Marketing
Not Acceptable for: Enrolled Agents
Version: 7565B

It has been proven that you get better results when you can listen more and talk less. Listening seems like an easy thing to do, but most people retain only a fraction of what they hear, resulting in miscommunications and lost opportunities. This course provides a step-by-step guide to dramatically improve listening skills, which will lead to improved relationships and increased professional success. It will explain how to avoid the urge to criticize, focus on the speaker's point of view, ask the right questions, and find solutions together. Skilled listeners experience fewer conflicts, make better decisions, and discover new opportunities. PLEASE NOTE: Not accepted for Enrolled Agents. All course material provided. No prerequisites. Course level: Basic.

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Table of Contents
  • WHY IMPROVE YOUR LISTENING
  • Quality Listening Enhances Work Relationships
  • Listening Well is Good Business
  • A Good Listener is a Rare Find
  • Quality Listening Strengthens Personal Relationships
  • DO'S AND DON'TS OF GREAT LISTENING
  • Trouble Spots in the Talking-Listening Process
  • Identifying Your Listening Missteps
  • Reducing Major Missteps
  • Skill-Based Listening
  • Whose Turn Is It?
  • Focus Your Attention
  • Be a Great Asker
  • Creating and Sequencing Productive Questions
  • REFLECTING CONTENT
  • Reflective Listening: Antidote to Miscommunication
  • Paraphrase What's Important
  • Listen Through the Pauses
  • READING AND REFLECTING OTHER PEOPLE'S FEELINGS
  • Why Listen to People's Feelings?
  • ''Read'' People's Feelings
  • Reflect Feelings and Meanings
  • THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND
  • Wrap It Up with a Summary Reflection
  • Results-Focused Listening
  • The Listening Spirit
  • Make Great Listening Part of Your Everyday Life
Objectives
  • To recognize the detriments of over using technology
  • To identify why improved listening is good for business
  • To recognize that poor listening skills are all around us
  • To recognize the importance of good marriages and friendships
  • To identify the four potential impediments to speaking clearly
  • To identify the common listening missteps
  • To recognize how to correct listening missteps
  • To identify the challenges involved with listening well
  • To recognize how to avoid conversational gaffes
  • To recognize the importance of good attending
  • To identify the steps in the productive questioning process
  • To identify the characteristics of an open question
  • To identify the characteristics of reflections
  • To recognize the importance of paraphrasing
  • To recognize the significance of conversational pauses
  • To recognize how our feelings affect communication
  • To identify the keys to determining what a speaker is feeling
  • To recognize the difference between feelings and content
  • To recognize the importance of summary reflections
  • To identify the steps in the results-focused listening process
  • To recognize the significance of respect in the listening process
  • To recognize why people may resist changing their listening behavior

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