Improving Your Listening Skills

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Have you ever noticed how good it feels when someone really listens to you? When we’re listened to, our feelings and needs are taken into account, we’re more relaxed and open, and we feel we can achieve our objectives. The goal of this program is to help participants get these kinds of results when communicating with others.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

In idXready™: Improving Your Listening Skills, participants will:

  • Recognize the importance of developing good listening skills by reflecting on their past listening experiences
  • Discover the five different listening approaches used in communication and the specific characteristics of each approach
  • Discover their most natural listening approaches
  • Explore their strengths and challenges as listeners
  • Identify effective listening approaches and behaviors, and practice modifying their listening approaches to meet the communication needs of team members
  • Create action plans to improve their ability to communicate effectively to all team members by using different listening approaches

PROGRAM LENGTH

Approximately 4¼ – 5½ hours. Breaks are not included in this time.

LEARNING MODEL USED

Personal Listening Profile®

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For Windows

  • Microsoft Office 2003 with Power Point 2003
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 +) or Windows XP (Recommended)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher (free at www.adobe.com
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
  • USB Ports (USB 2 recommended)
  • 512 MB of memory (Minimum)

For Macs

  • Mac OS 9 or higher
  • PowerPoint 2004
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)

Improving Your Listening Skills $995.00

Improving Your Listening Skills Participant Workbook- $108.50