{"id":9913,"date":"2022-09-28T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arliemediadesign.com\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2025-03-23T23:07:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:07:19","slug":"3-ways-to-improve-your-active-listening-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happy.co.uk\/blogs\/3-ways-to-improve-your-active-listening-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways to Improve Your Active Listening Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Truly empathetic listening requires courage \u2013 the willingness to let go of the old habits and embrace new ones.Ram Charan, Co-author of&nbsp;Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening with humility allows us to problem solve more effectively through deepened understanding. It can help create and maintain relationships through trust. Below are a few ideas on how we can listen with more humility in person and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Create a Space for Listening<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-empt and minimise potential distractions. Try listening in different spaces to find where you focus best. Put your phone on silent and turn off the email notifications on your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re using an online platform to host larger meetings, ask participants to mute their microphones, when they are not speaking, to eliminate background noise. Experiment with using different screen views. You may find a full-screen view helps you resist the temptation of clicking away from the meeting. Gallery view on Zoom allows you to see everyone\u2019s video at once; do you find this more or less distracting? Try listening using headphones, do you notice any difference in your ability to focus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember people communicate using more than speech. If you\u2019re hosting a meeting remotely, encourage people who are comfortable being on camera to switch on their video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Be Mindful<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Be mindful of how your mind wanders as you listen. Notice the when and the why. Do you always stop listening after about 40 mins? Do you stop listening when you are bored? Challenged? Stressed? Upset? Are you distracted by how you look on camera? What are you doing instead of listening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bringing awareness to how, when and why you don\u2019t listen will help you identify your barriers to listening. You can use this awareness to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few ideas include ensuring your meetings are less than 40 minutes long, make boring topics more exciting by trying new ways of notetaking and hide your own camera view in remote meetings if it is too much of a distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen with humility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Empathetic listening is a truly humbling experience. When we stop assuming we have all the answers we begin to recognise the value of other people\u2019s perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, I completed an introduction to counselling course which required me to do a lot of listening practice. I\u2019d find I was so worried about doing and saying the right thing, I\u2019d miss what the speaker was trying to communicate. I spoke to a friend of mine about it who gently told me I was misplacing my focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be a good listener we need self-awareness but we also need to be able to re-direct our focus towards the speaker to truly understand what they are communicating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Approach with curiosity \u2013 not&nbsp;judgement<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Express your curiosity by asking open questions. Summarise the speaker\u2019s key points to make sure you have understood them correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suspend judgements on the speaker and yourself. Your mind may wander but chastising yourself for it will only prevent you from listening further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make sure your body language reflects what you are saying. 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