David J. Parnell’s Professional Listening Series | Part 4 of 4 | Habits & Strategy

Today we are going to finish our 4 part professional listening series by talking about quality listening habits that you can begin developing right away and we will look at skill preparation and development at the Macro and Micro levels.
First let’s talk about developing quality listening habits. There is simply no silver bullet for doing [...]

David J. Parnell’s Professional Listening Series | Part 2 of 4 | Bad Habits

As we determined in the previous post, when we reduce “listening” down to its purest form, it is the process of gathering information. When a communicator begins to CONSCIOUSLY determine for what purpose the information is being gathered AND what information specifically is being gathered is where they truly become an effective listener.
Before going any [...]