Category: Listening skills

  • Spectacular Silence

    In these times we all have painful experiences and encounter all sorts of difficulties. I am deeply grateful for every person who brings a little humanity, who gives their time and their knowledge without counting, to get us out of this health crisis. What’s more, each one of us has to find some way to…

  • Silence spectaculaire

      En ce moment, nous avons tous des expériences douloureuses et des difficultés de toutes sortes. Je suis extrêmement reconnaissant envers toutes les personnes qui apportent un peu d’humanité, qui donnent sans compter leur temps et leur savoir-faire pour que nous sortions de cette crise sanitaire. De plus, il faut trouver, chacun à sa manière,…

  • Back from the ILA Listening Convention

    Everyone says that listening is very important, I mean, really important… Some people deeply understand the need to be more effective listeners and know that it can be learned. Some of them are strongly committed to researching, writing, teaching and spreading their experiences and knowledge everywhere they can for us to […]

  • Ten Listening Tips – #10

    CP Moreau talks about how to respond to show you’ve listened to someone in Tip#10, the last in the series of ten listening tips in preparation for the 2017 International Day of Listening.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #9

    In Tip #9, Sandra Bodin Lerner talks about reflecting back what you hear from a listener to confirm understanding.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #8-2

    Anita Dorczak talks about why it is so important to understand cultural differences, in Tip#8, in a series of ten listening tips leading up to the 2017 International Day of Listening.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #8-1

    In the eighth tip of this Ten Listening Tips series Kathy O’Brien discusses how cultural and age differences are important, because people could have different expectations of listening and speaking.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #7

    In this seventh tip out of ten, Avi Kluger describes how he listens for the emotions behind communication.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #6

    The sixth of these ten tips is about looking for verbal versus nonverbal cues, by Graham Bodie.

  • Ten Listening Tips – #5

    The fifth of these ten listening tips is about listening to understand, not to respond by Laura Janusik.