Improve Listening Skills

  Improve Listening Skills  http://www. askmikethecounselor2. com/improve‐listening‐skills. html    Improve listening skills is an extraordinary skill to develop, which pays great dividends in personal relationships. The one downside that I have discovered... More

 
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Improve listening skills is an extraordinary skill to develop, which pays great dividends in
personal relationships.

The one downside that I have discovered is that if folks get a sense that I can do this, and
because so few of us do it well, I am invited to listen and listen and listen, even when my four
year old daughter is demanding my attention.

So listening well demands that I be able to set boundaries ("Can you excuse me for a moment,
my daughter is setting fire to the cat.
.
.
, I ll be right back.
")
But improving listening skills can be done.

When I am teaching my domestic violence education groups, I teach listening skills by modeling,
and by discussion.

But the first step in listening in to make a mental commitment to doing just that.

The next step is to realize that listening is a dynamic process, and I will get distracted, day
dream, ect, and actually not hear, and that Less