When another person is speaking to me, I…

Your Listening abilities depend a lot on the situation. Choose a spontaneous or pre-planned situation in your professional or personal life, focus on listening to one person in particular or a special group of persons.

Notice also that this Assessment is only the tip of the iceberg. It doesn’t deal with verbal interventions (questions, feedback…), your communication style, types of listening to use, your filters...

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* 1. Focus on the sender as much as possible

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* 2. Concentrate on the content of the message

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* 3. Anticipate what the sender is going to say

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* 4. Establish eye contact with the sender (depending on the culture)

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* 5. Keep listening even if I disagree with the sender

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* 6. Nod, smile, or give other positive nonverbal cues

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* 7. Plan my verbal intervention (response) in my head

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* 8. Get distracted by environmental sounds

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* 9. Listen without judging or criticizing

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* 10. Think about issues unrelated to the topic

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* 11. Pay attention to the sender's nonverbal (congruence)

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* 12. Look like I’m listening when I’m not

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* 13. Get overwhelmed by my emotions

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* 14. Allow sender to vent his or her frustration

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* 15. Think of my different view on the topic

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* 16. Display an open and caring posture

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* 17. Create a nonthreatening environment

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* 18. Have a tendency to keep what I don’t understand to myself and figure it out later

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* 19. (not a question :-)

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