How to learn to listen

How to learn to listen

In business and in the personal relations it is very important to be able to listen and to correctly understand the interlocutor or the opponent. Unfortunately, we are not always able to do it therefore there are a misunderstanding and offenses.

Instruction

1. To seize ability to listen to the interlocutor, constantly develop it in yourself. Being in the public place which is able "loneliness in crowd" listen what people speak about, analyze their talk and draw conclusions.

2. You have to understand that you need to listen and understand the interlocutor, first of all. First, in a conversation of people reveals more fully, you know it better. Secondly, the fact that you listen to it has in more direct talk as thereby you show the respect. Thirdly, in a conversation you can understand how the person treats you. Listen and draw the conclusions.

3. Control yourself on continuation of all conversation with the interlocutor; as soon as you lose thread and cease to catch sense, concentrate and concentrate. You can only ask the specifying questions, formulating them is consecutive, based on the received answers. After he spoke, briefly formulate to the interlocutor the statement of his speech to be convinced that you understood it exactly as he wanted.

4. Try to come during the conversation into visual contact with the interlocutor which can be interrupted for entering of necessary marks into a notebook. You do not drive eyes on in the room, be not distracted by the mobile phone, do not turn over an organizer - let it know that you listen carefully to it, nod and in monosyllables comment heard that the extensive comment did not take away it from the main subject.

5. Do not finish a phrase for the opponent even if your option seems to you the most logical. Even if after a small hitch, the interlocutor makes it. In this case you will be sure that he told that wanted.

6. Do not begin to consider the answer before the interlocutor finished the speech, at this moment you can miss something important because of the carelessness that wanted to inform you.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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