Listening Skills: How to Listen Beyond the Blah Blah
Tools For Leaders to Become Better Listeners.
Instructor :
Amanda Box
Webinar ID:
14912
Date: JAN 07, 2025 (TUE)
Start Time: 10 AM PT - 11:15 AM PT
Duration: 75 Mins.
What you will learn
- How to Sharpen Your Focus
- Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
- Learn to Listen When You Don’t Want to
- Facilitate Others Listening to You…
- How to Sharpen Your Focus
- Identify Strengths and Weaknesses
- Learn to Listen When You Don’t Want to
- Facilitate Others Listening to You
- Identify Un-listeners, Improve Your Patience
- Become Audience Centered, Build Your Credibility
- Understand The Impact of Improving Your Listening Skills
- Learn Effective Feedback Strategies
Course Description
- People only listen accurately 25% of the time
- Most people will only remember 50% of what has just been said to them!
- Over the long term, the average person will only retain around 20% of what has been spoken to them.
These sad statistics explain much about why work projects and relationships are sometimes a struggle.
Everyone today is distracted by pings and notifications all the time. From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep, constantly pinging and being connected. This degree of distraction is a huge obstacle to active listening.
The attention spans have shrunk by over 50% over the last 10 years. This is why TV and online ads are all so short.
- Snapchats and TikToks are 7 seconds long
- YouTube has launched the Shorts segment
Advertisers know this is all we have the attention span for.
Short attention spans affect our listening, and it’s just getting worse.
All of this combined clearly shows we’re all suffering from sensory overload and exhausted from it. Then top this with our overactive minds; it’s no wonder that proper listening is so difficult today!
With proper tools and techniques, developing new listening skills and breaking yourself free from the cycle that so many of us are stuck in is possible.
Benefits of Active Listening:
- You can make better decisions because you’ll have the skill to process more information effectively.
- You’ll be able to see the hidden messages and agendas behind what someone is saying and can tell when people are lying to you.
- You’ll have better, more profound, and connected relationships with the people at work and in your life because it shows you care about them and what they have to say.
- You’ll have more substantial and fulfilling conversations, even when engaged in small talk
Successful listening skills are a game changer for any professional as you strive to accomplish your goals, build a solid team, and outsmart most conflicts.
Join Now!
- People only listen accurately 25% of the time
- Most people will only remember 50% of what has just been said to them!
- Over the long term, the average person will only retain around 20% of what has been spoken to them.
These sad statistics explain much about why work projects and relationships are sometimes a struggle.
Everyone today is distracted by pings and notifications all the time. From the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep, constantly pinging and being connected. This degree of distraction is a huge obstacle to active listening.
The attention spans have shrunk by over 50% over the last 10 years. This is why TV and online ads are all so short.
- Snapchats and TikToks are 7 seconds long
- YouTube has launched the Shorts segment
Advertisers know this is all we have the attention span for.
Short attention spans affect our listening, and it’s just getting worse.
All of this combined clearly shows we’re all suffering from sensory overload and exhausted from it. Then top this with our overactive minds; it’s no wonder that proper listening is so difficult today!
With proper tools and techniques, developing new listening skills and breaking yourself free from the cycle that so many of us are stuck in is possible.
Benefits of Active Listening:
- You can make better decisions because you’ll have the skill to process more information effectively.
- You’ll be able to see the hidden messages and agendas behind what someone is saying and can tell when people are lying to you.
- You’ll have better, more profound, and connected relationships with the people at work and in your life because it shows you care about them and what they have to say.
- You’ll have more substantial and fulfilling conversations, even when engaged in small talk
Successful listening skills are a game changer for any professional as you strive to accomplish your goals, build a solid team, and outsmart most conflicts.
Join Now!
Why you should attend
As leaders, it’s tempting to get so caught up in our own voice, in what we have to say, we drown out everyone else.
When you stop listening, your leadership voice falls on deaf ears because you lose touch with the very people you are leading.
Poor listening leads to assumptions and misunderstandings. These lead to errors, ineffective decisions, and/or costly mistakes.
On a personal level, poor listening leads to hurt feelings and a loss of team cohesion. This deteriorates trust and weakens communication even further.
If you haven’t been listening, I challenge you to take some aggressive steps now to reset your leadership style. Pay special attention to the areas in your organization and the people in your organization who have grown silent.
Just because people aren’t talking, it doesn’t mean that don’t have anything to say!
Join this interactive webinar, where Amanda Box shows you how to listen actively.
Participants will learn step by step how to assess listening barriers, interpret nonverbal communication with skill, and work on focus.
This seminar is useful for anyone who wants to improve professional and interpersonal listening skills.
Take these steps and your leadership voice will grow stronger and your leadership impact will be greater!
Enroll Now!
As leaders, it’s tempting to get so caught up in our own voice, in what we have to say, we drown out everyone else.
When you stop listening, your leadership voice falls on deaf ears because you lose touch with the very people you are leading.
Poor listening leads to assumptions and misunderstandings. These lead to errors, ineffective decisions, and/or costly mistakes.
On a personal level, poor listening leads to hurt feelings and a loss of team cohesion. This deteriorates trust and weakens communication even further.
If you haven’t been listening, I challenge you to take some aggressive steps now to reset your leadership style. Pay special attention to the areas in your organization and the people in your organization who have grown silent.
Just because people aren’t talking, it doesn’t mean that don’t have anything to say!
Join this interactive webinar, where Amanda Box shows you how to listen actively.
Participants will learn step by step how to assess listening barriers, interpret nonverbal communication with skill, and work on focus.
This seminar is useful for anyone who wants to improve professional and interpersonal listening skills.
Take these steps and your leadership voice will grow stronger and your leadership impact will be greater!
Enroll Now!
Course Agenda
- Sharpen your focus
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Learn to listen when you don’t want to
- Facilitate others listening to you
- Identify un-listeners
- Improve your patience
- Become audience centered
- Understand the impact of improving your listening skills
- Build your credibility
- Learn effective feedback strategies
BONUS:
- PDF copy of the presentation handout for your future reference.
- Soft copy of the certificate of completion on request.
- Sharpen your focus
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- Learn to listen when you don’t want to
- Facilitate others listening to you
- Identify un-listeners
- Improve your patience
- Become audience centered
- Understand the impact of improving your listening skills
- Build your credibility
- Learn effective feedback strategies
BONUS:
- PDF copy of the presentation handout for your future reference.
- Soft copy of the certificate of completion on request.
Who is this course for
Everybody Benefits from Watching This. Even Better When Done as a Group!
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Business Owners, CEOs and Executives
- Human Resource Professionals
- Project Managers
- Benefit Specialists
- Management Consultants
- Anyone who is looking to build strong connections
Everybody Benefits from Watching This. Even Better When Done as a Group!
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Business Owners, CEOs and Executives
- Human Resource Professionals
- Project Managers
- Benefit Specialists
- Management Consultants
- Anyone who is looking to build strong connections
Instructor Profile
The success of your communication determines your success in every other aspect of your life. That philosophy is the foundation for Amanda Box while teaching and facilitating the fundamentals of communication.
Her 20+ year career has been spent in a dual role of teaching on the college level and consulting with business and industry.
Box uses an interactive and dynamic presentation style to teach specific communication skills to diverse groups. With improved interpersonal, presentation and writing skills, professionals can spend time doing their best work rather than getting bogged down in the frustrations of flawed communication.
Box connects with people on every level including business leaders, government agencies, medical professionals, industry leaders, sports teams, university development teams and many more.
Specialty topics include: communication through change, presentation skills, conflict management, advanced business writing and grammar, customer service, gender difference, small group dynamics, team building, interpersonal communication, and listening skills.
Amanda Box taught full time on the university level for 10 years and continues to serve as adjunct faculty while consulting with business and industry.
Box rounded out her professional skills while serving as the communication coordinator for four years for a nonprofit organization where she was responsible for all internal and external communication including several publications, the web site, and media campaigns.
Box has undergraduate and graduate degrees in communication.
