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The Art of Active Listening
 
description Join Kristin Arnold for a fun, upbeat workshop to explore the different facets to active listening. Discover your preference for listening, and receive practical tools for great listening, interpreting and comprehending messages. You will experience ways to assess and then appropriately respond to a message. We will also help you develop a personal action plan to enhance your active listening skills.

 
learning objectives
  • To have participants learn and use their preference, listening style.
  • To enable participants to actively listen while engaged in team meeting and activities.
  • To give participants new strategies and techniques to improve their listening skills and avoid miscommunications.
 
workshop approach Facilitative in style, modeling the behaviors and tools for successful teamwork with a focus on active listening. We have based the workshop on adult learning theory and it is reinforced with team activities, printed material and practice activities.

 
who should attend All team members

 
size: max/min 50 Maximum / 10 Minimum

 
prework required
  • All participants must complete a web-based pre-workshop survey.
  • Each participant should come prepared with an example of a real life situation when they found it difficult to listen to another person.
 
duration One day

 
sample outline Active Listening
  • Why should we listen actively?
  • Listening preferences
  • Stages of listening
Setting the Stage
  • Attending to the message
  • Perceiving the message
Interpreting the Message
  • Comprehending the message
  • Feeling the message
Assessing and Responding to the Message
  • Check for understanding, meaning and feeling
  • The inevitable miscommunications
Listening Breakdowns
  • Prevention strategies
  • Intervention strategies
Application to the Workplace
  • Great questions
  • One Good Idea...
 
learning assessment One month after the training, all participants will complete a follow-on, web-based questionnaire to gauge learning and application to the workplace.
 
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