7 Tips to learn the art of listening

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7 Tips to learn the art of listening
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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• A guide by Pg Diploma in Business Management
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• Most of the successful people Ive known are the
  ones who do more listening than talking.
• -Bernard M. Baruch
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• When someone asks you what qualities you think a
  good leader should have. What are your answers?
  Is it a good speaker or a decision maker or a
  risk taker or a charismatic person? In all these
  options, we deliberately left out one of the most
  important quality and that is Listening. A
  successful leader is the one who can carry out a
  good conversation and brings out that energy at
  the workplace which could help people to work to
  their best of potential.

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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• Many people think a good conversationalist is the
  one who is a good talker but in reality it is the
  one who is a good listener. There is an
  interesting statistics around this which says
  that, English speakers can say 125 to 150 words
  in one minute but are capable of listening to 400
  to 550 words in the same duration. There is an
  old saying as well, He who speaks first loses.
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• So whilst you do your pg diploma in business
  management, learn the art of listening. This
  would not only help you excel in your diploma in
  financial management but would also help you
  develop a crucial skill to become a better person
  overall.

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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• Below are the 7 tips to learn this great art
•  Intention of being Involved
•  There are a lot of benefits of listening. It
  helps you to learn new things. It helps you
  formulate a better reply. You always get into a
  conversation for some reason, so do not deviate
  from your goal. Stay involved and come out having
  your purpose solved.
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• Conducive Environment
•  There has to be an ideal environment to listen
  to a person talk. Always choose a quiet place
  that is conducive to listening. This would help
  you recollect your thoughts as well whilst you
  listen.
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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• Go with the Flow
•  A good conversationalist is the one who knows
  how to act in the moment. Deciding in advance
  what you are going to say before entering into a
  discussion can make it one sided. So allow your
  conversation to go with the flow. Listen to all
  the sides, weigh everything and only then speak
  your mind.
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• Stay in the Moment
•  In order to listen, you need to rid yourself off
  all the distractions such as social media, phone
  calls, sms etc. Put your phone on silent or pilot
  mode whilst you are in the conversation.

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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• Learn to Pay Attention
•  Many a times this happens that you are 100
  percent in the room without any distractions but
  your mind starts to wander. For this you need to
  learn how to pay attention no matter how boring
  the conversation is turning out to be. One best
  way to develop this is Yoga.
• Be Empathetic
•  We listen only when we have certain agreement
  with what the person says. To ensure this, put
  yourself in the other persons shoes. This would
  help you empathise with the person and hence
  would help have a fruitful discussion.

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7 Tips to learn the art of listening

• Wait for your turn to talk
•  This is one of the hardest thing to do. In a
  conversation you will get a chance to talk. Wait
  for your turn before you talk and do not
  interrupt when someone else is talking. In order
  to truly listen, you need to resonate so that the
  person feels that you are listening and for this
  you need to wait for your turn to talk.