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 this. Countless studies have shown that NOT using old habits atrophies the neural net that produces the habit and REPETITION develops new neural nets that create new habits. So the first step is to bring cognition back into the picture. We have already talked about potential bad habits, so to complement that I have provided a fairly comprehensive list of quality habits that you need to begin developing while you are listening to your communication partner. Parts of this post are protected. Please login or register for Level 2 Access - The Insider's Club or Level 3 Access - The CGP Certification Program to view the complete contents of this post.
Once you feel comfortable with this you can then begin to pay attention to your own conversations and make the proper mental adjustments when necessary. You will start out slowly at first and the skill will be sporadically applied. But with time and practice you will quickly be applying your listening skill set innately and at the micro-level.
You can now consider yourself a professional listener… To learn more about other forms of effective communication please feel free to search my other blog posts or connect with me on Skype.
