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Effective Listening (with Audio Descriptions)

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Overview

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Communications experts Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes help you assess your listening skills and develop more-effective listening behaviors.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Improving your listening skills
  • Getting the most out of the course
1. Assessing Your Listening Skills
  • Five skills for improved listening
  • Recalling details
  • Understanding the big picture
  • Evaluating content
  • Attuning to subtle cues
  • Listening with empathy
  • When and how to listen
2. Challenges to Listening
  • Getting distracted by internal noise
  • Multitasking
  • Paying attention to delivery
  • Overwhelming yourself with information
  • Responding inappropriately
3. Effective Listening Behaviors
  • Effective listening behaviors
  • Clarifying your role
  • Using nonverbal cues
  • Allowing silence
  • Paraphrasing what was said
  • Matching emotions
  • Effective listing in action
Conclusion
  • Setting listening goals

Taught by

Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou

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