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Effective Listening

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Discover how to master the art of active listening to accelerate your professional growth and build stronger workplace relationships.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Listening as a career superpower
1. Situational Listening
  • Reflect on your listening habits
2. Listening When Emotions Are High
  • Listen to spot unspoken concerns and messages
  • Pause: Stay grounded during charged conversations
  • Listen to diffuse defensiveness
  • Pro Tip: Listen to build alignment with stakeholders
3. Listening through Boredom and Overload
  • Manage attention and distraction while listening
  • Take smart notes to engage while listening
  • Ask questions that sharpen understanding
  • Pro tip: Don't hear what you expect
4. Listening to Make Decisions
  • Listen for the big picture to make strategic decisions
  • Ask sharp questions to vet ideas
  • Summarize to drive alignment
  • Pro tip: Listen for the outlier to find the best idea
5. Listening to Build Connection
  • Talk less to connect more
  • Listening when words are hard to hear and understand
  • Listen with empathy
  • What empathetic listeners don't say
  • Listen well in virtual meetings
Conclusion
  • AI as your listening coach
  • 30-day listening challenge

Taught by

Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou

Reviews

4.7 rating, based on 3 Class Central reviews

4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 805 ratings

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    Ayush Patidar
    it was really awesome and helped me in deeper understanding about listening. i had learned different types of listening, challenges while listening and effective ways of listening.
  • This is a really great and encouraging course which compelled me to take certain actions that I would rather not. The examples were great and they case scenarios too. Although I just finished the course and have not applied the behaviors of good listening, I quickly was able to identify the areas where I fell short in terms of listening.
  • Anonymous
    I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Very insightful, clear and well structured. I would highly recommend it.

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