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Listening Skills

Listening is deliberate, intentional and focused

In a fast-paced world effective leaders know that listening carefully can make the difference in how they establish relationships and how they produce meaningful results.

Here are some resources that you can enjoy to start learning how to listening more attentively.

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10 Listening Tips
These 10 videos will help you sharpen your Listening Skills

Watch and learn from experts and researchers at the ILA - International Listening Association

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Books About Listening
Here are some books from our bookshelf on this fascinating topic: Listening! Everyone thinks they can listen, but do you really master this skill? Learn from some the world's greatest experts on Listening.

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10 Listening Tips

Leaders Today is an Affiliate Partner of the International Listening Association (ILA).

This exceptional video series was prepared by ILA members for the International Day of Listening.

In each video an ILA Listening Expert shares insights into the art and practice of Listening. You can use these invaluable tips immediately in your daily work and personal life.

Listening Tip #1

Choose to listen more and better, Sheila Bentley

Listening Tip #2

How to prepare to listen to others, Jean François Mathieu

Listening Tip #3

Be an open-minded listener, Debra Worthington

Listening Tip #4

Let the speaker finish talking - Michael & Molly Murphy

Listening Tip #5

Listen to understand, Laura Janusik

Listening Tip #6

Look for verbal/nonverbal clues, Graham Bodie

Listening Tip #7

Listen for the emotion, Avi Kluger

Listening Tip #8-1

Be aware of cultural, age and gender differences, Kathy O'Brien

Listening Tip #8-2

Understanding cultural differences, Anita Dorczak

Listening Tip #9

Reflect back what you heard, Sandra Bodin Lerner

Listening Tip #10

Respond to show you listened and understood, CP Moreau

Books about Listening

Here are some recommendations from our bookshelf, you will find them at your favorite Bookstore.

You will find a good mix of inspiration, practical methods, research, models and tools to make you a superb listener!

Some are authored by members of the International Listening Association (ILA). Leaders Today is an Affiliate Partner of the ILA. If you shop on Amazon Smile , you can select the International Listening Association as a charity to support when you buy a book on listening. Thanks!

Listening in Everyday Life

A Personal and Professional Approach

Edited by Michael Purdy | Deborah Borisoff

In the first part, contributors explore different genres and contexts such as gender, intercultural and interpersonal listening. The second part is about listening in the professions: education, service industries, health care and journalism. An excellent, overarching view of listening, including concepts and applications.
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A Father's Book of Listening

Essential Practices for Truly Loving our Children

Mark Brady, PhD

A delightful, wise and tender book that teaches us how to listen deeply to children and nurture our relationship with them. In busy and stressful times, it gives practical and inspiring tips on how to slow down, be present and empathic with kids. An absolute must-have on any family's bookshelf.

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Power Listening

Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill

Bernard T. Ferrari

Bernard Ferrari analyzes the impact on business of good or bad listening skills. He presents a highly practical framework to improve listening capabilities based on his experience first as a physician, and then as a management consultant.

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The Forgotten Skill

Madelyn Burley-Allen

If you seriously want to improve your listening skills, this step-by-step self-teaching guide will enable you to learn about the barriers between listener and speaker and how to overcome them, and new techniques to be a good listener.
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Human Listening

Processes and Behavior

Carl H. Weaver

This book is as much about listening as it is on how to listen. The author makes complex theories extremely readable, and provides practical exercises to help the reader engage in the behavioural changes need to develop their listening abilities and become a fully self-aware listener.

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Processes, Functions and Competency

Debra L. Worthington | Margaret E. Fitch-Hauser

A rich, comprehensive book offers the best of research on listening, presented in three parts: listening as a cognitive process, a social function and a critical professional competency. The fourth and last part looks at future developments in studies such as the impact of technology. A fascinating read.

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