{"id":230,"date":"2022-05-05T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T17:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/?p=230"},"modified":"2022-08-20T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T10:00:41","slug":"a-great-leader-is-a-great-listener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/2022\/05\/05\/a-great-leader-is-a-great-listener\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Leader is a Great Listener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\">Effective Listening<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine you are having a conversation with someone, the only thing wrong is that you can not understand or comprehend what they are saying. Well, this happens to me alot. In the classroom, at home, or even at work I struggle understanding the context someone is trying to get across to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\"><strong>Reasons that can effect the way we comprehend something<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 3 reaons<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Message Overload<\/li><li>Environemnt distractions<\/li><li>Incomprehensibility<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you may ask, what do these mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental distractions is anything that is getting your attention away from listening to the person talking to you, it could be people walking, seeing something, or even hearing a noise that is distracting to you. Message ovddrload is that the person talking is providing you too much information at once, and Incomprehensibility is not understanding clearly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\">Well, How can you fix this?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be mindful<\/li><li>Control your distractions<\/li><li>Manage your feedback<\/li><li>Recognize the value of silence<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, these are very broad ways to fix your listening skills but there are many factors that contribute to these. Being mindful would be to be open to receiving new information from others. Controling your distractions would be taking yourself away from a loud environment to a quiet environemtn where you can focus on the conversation you are having. Managing your feedback is you need to maintain good eye contact wih the speaker, and good posture. Also responding with good information and questions that are appropriate to the information being talked about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-blue-color\">Being a great listener<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Improve Your Listening Skills with Active Listening\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t2z9mdX1j4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective Listening Imagine you are having a conversation with someone, the only thing wrong is that you can not understand or comprehend what they are saying. Well, this happens to me alot. In the classroom, at home, or even at work I struggle understanding the context someone is trying to get across to me. Reasons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/2022\/05\/05\/a-great-leader-is-a-great-listener\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Great Leader is a Great Listener&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unewhavendh.org\/communication-toolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}