What are the 4 components in the hierarchy of active listening?
While the model is sometimes used for training in the sales arena, it is helpful in all walks of life. The stages of the model are: Sensing, Interpreting, Evaluating and Responding.
A blog post can't do full justice to everything that was covered, but here's an introduction to Andreas and Jeff's concept of 'The 3 P's of Coaching Agility', which are: listening presence. listening perspectives. listening personas.
Listening actively during public speaking is integral for public success and comprehension, so it is important to learn about the four kinds of listening: appreciative, empathic, comprehensive, and critical.
This is when you listen beyond the words and feelings. It is when you forge a connection with the person in such a deep way you become generative with your hearing — adding more, much more than what is being said. You are helping the other person experience hearing themselves.
In an article in the International Journal of Listening, Watson, Barker, and Weaver identified four listening styles: people, action, content, and time (1995).
Effective listening has three modes: attentive listening, responsive listening, and active listening. Understanding these modes will help you increase your listening accuracy and reduce the opportunity for misunderstanding.
In Stephen Covey's landmark book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, he identified five levels of listening. The five levels of listening are ignoring, pretending, selective, attentive, and empathic.
The listening process involves five stages: receiving, understanding, evaluating, remembering, and responding. These stages will be discussed in more detail in later sections.
What volume should audio be listened to and mixed at? Critical listening should be done at various levels, though 80 – 85 dB SPL is the sweet spot with the best frequency balance and low risk of hearing damage.
Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process. Listening is key to all effective communication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood.
The idea behind “think win-win,” i.e., habit 4 is to have the courage to seek mutual benefit from all human interactions instead of having winners on the one side and losers on the other. Achieving a “win win” way of interacting with others is more than just being nice or looking for a quick fix.
In his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey states that most effective communicators are great listeners. Often, we listen with the intent to reply, when we should really listen with the intent to understand. The most effective listeners are empathic listeners.
At the Listening Partnership, we call these complexities the different dimensions of listening. The fine art of listening has a broad scope, usually including the coach's intention, presence, focus, curiosity and observations.
This is the most basic form of listening and does not involve the understanding of the meaning of words or phrases but merely the different sounds that are produced.
