Improve your Listening Skills

Improve your Listening Skills

Listening forms the basis of any communications. Unfortunately, no scientific or methodical training in listening skill is offered in educational institutions.

The main steps to listening can be listed as follows.

• Maintaining good eye contact with the speaker
  
• Being relaxed and attentive
  
• Not getting distracted by thoughts
  
• Not interrupting the speaker
  
• Focussing on key words
  
• Observing the speaker’s body language
  
• Grasping the meaning of words by the pitch, stress, voice and tone.
  
• Visualising the speaker’s words
  
• Asking pertinent questions when the speaker finishes
  
• Not imposing your ideas.

Effective listening can be developed by persistent practice. A careful listener always speaks clearly, confident and correctly. Listening improves the language proficiency of a person. It is the gateway to knowledge and successes in all our endeavours.

Improve your Listening Skills