Listening actively is so important that we do not do it, we demolish all our chances with people and success. Negotiation can burst into disaster if we do not listen and assilimate. In fact the importance of listening is hard to explain in words.
Lets enumerate the benefits of active listening.
- You acquire more information and as a consequence make better decisions. At a consequence make better decisions. At workplace it helps you to clearly understand the assignment projects given to you.
- You are able to enhance your relationship with your peers and colleagues. As a result you are able to build better rapport with bosses & clients. Since you are able to understand your co workers & develop better relations, you are able to more effective in team based environment and projects.
- Due to active listening, you are able to understand things better, you are perceived the other person’s point of view, in turn it makes you more effective in resolution problems.
- Because of active listening, you become more aware of the underlined meaning of what people say, often times people do not mean what they say.
Let us understand we can enhance our listening skills.
First of all you must have a strong desire to listen and win. Undoubtedly a good listener is a winner. So you must develop a habit of being attentive. You must not be in a hurry to interrupt the speaker and say what you have in mind. You should reflect while you are listening to someone. If you listen to someone then you will be able to assimilate rightly and clearly.
No doubt the habit of listening has to be formed and nurtured. You will start realizing the benefits. Therefore your desire to become a good listener will become stronger and it will have a snow-balling effect to your advantage. But always keep in mind that habits die hard and therefore you have to consistently work hard to develop the great habit of active listening. Above all Lord has given us two ears and one mouth. So we must listen twice as much as you speak.
