Name: Professional Development Tutorial - Become a better listener
Uploaded: 2022-08-03T18:30:14.000Z
Duration: 3 min 15 s
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The comparative

Modal verbs - A2

but it can be hard to will ourselves to pay full attention.

To-infinitive

first, get in touch with your motivation.

to watch this and work on building this skill?

Maybe your boss told you that you need to get better.

In which case this is something important for your career

advancement or maybe a friend or colleague said something

about you're not listening well and you realized,

"I want to do better, I want to be a better friend".

Keep your reasons in mind as a way to stay focused.

Second, know that becoming a better listener

is a powerful way to show other people that you

You can probably even think back to romantic comedies where

the hero or heroine is extolling their love interest.

but it's one that makes a deep impression.

Third, listening well enables you to understand

Here's the thing, if you've been listening in a cursory

fashion for years, you might not even realize it,

but the information you're taking in might only

the nuances that can make all the difference.

Especially if you're a manager or you aspire to be one,

What's the reason the project's been held up?

Often, there's a surface reason and a real reason,

you need to hear and understand the real reason.

But we often tamp it down in the course of our work life

when you start to think like an anthropologist,

You'll end up getting useful information and also learning

Finally, to get into the mindset of listening,

it's important to recognize the consequences of a person

Someone tries to tell you something and again and again,

You won't get the information you need to function

Second, they start to resent you because they

Third, they become less effective because instead of

they're spending their time devising work arounds

There are real consequences to people not feeling heard,

Getting clear on that, why it's truly important to master

this skill will help you become even more effective at it.

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Professional Development Tutorial - Become a better listener

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