HECM 221 - CNA: Improving your listening skills

Improving your listening skills

COMMUNICATION AND ADOPTION 3(3+0)

Lesson 20 : Listening

Improving your listening skills

Practice will help you to improve your listening skills. Here are two simple exercises:

Take a few minutes every day to sit still in a quiet room. Then close your eyes and do nothing but listen. Listen for specific sounds and identify them. One of the problems with poor listeners is that they are more attuned to what is going on inside themselves than to what is happing in others and the outside world. This exercise will help you to forget yourself and to turn outwards.

Listen to interviews on the radio and television. Pay particular attention to the people being interviewed. What are they saying? What are the thoughts, emotions, and feelings behind what they are saying? You can do the same exercise when attending lectures and talks. Regular exercise will improve your listening skill.

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