Developing listening skill is not only required in a student's life. It's required to achieve success in any walk of life. Please listen to what I got to say on Listening Skills. Better understanding will lead to making your communication more effective. Improving the Listening Comprehension is a must for that. It 's required to achieve success in personal life and in professional life.

1. Listening Skill
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2. Listening Skill
 It simply means your ability to indulge
yourself in an undeterred episode of
listening.
 It’s Skill
 So can be trained and developed

3. Listening Span
Is the amount of time one can indulge
himself in an episode of undeterred
listening at a single stretch.

4. Uses of Listening Skill
 Listening is directly proportional to learning
 The amount and quality of learning is closely connected to
your ability of listening
 Listening is too essential to build, keep and enforce
relations.
 Listening helps you empower interpersonal skills
 Listening can enhance your problem solving abilities.
 Listening will empower your own personality
 A good Listener is a good friend, invariably.

5. How to Develop Listening Skill
 We are naturally gifted with listening skill as we are
human beings
 We can improve upon it to have an edge over others
 Constant, purposeful practice alone can bring in an
improvement
 Meditation helps you improve
concentration, concentration augments listening skill
and listening span
 You can go for some brain gym, intellectual
games, arithmetic puzzles, computer games etc to
improve it further.
 A strong desire to develop is, above everything, basic

6. In Interpersonal Skill Development
Although not the topic of popular
conversation, listening skills hold
a lot of weight in relationship
building. Business networking is
commonly perceived as doing
proactive things to create useful
relationships. Yes, certain bond
building activities must be
performed but there are details

7. Emphasis is on the SKILL
An important detail is to have
exceptional listening skills. In other
words, just as much emphasis that
is put into having a good elevator
pitch or to be able to explain the
great features and benefits your
services should be applied to your
listening capabilities

8. There’s Room for Improvement at
any level
This is one vital aspect to Personal
networking and relationships that
shouldn't be overlooked. You may
be a great listener but it's always
good to do a spot check and
consistently welcome improvement

9. How great of a listener are you?
Ask yourself the following
questions

10. 1. Do you seek first to understand and
then to be understood?
Sometimes we can be so excited and engrossed
with our own agenda that we are in a hurry to
spread the word and speak of our own needs.
There's nothing wrong with doing this, however,
it should not interfere with lending your ear in a
way that allows you to receive important
information coming from your conversation
partner. You must be receptive and
understanding regardless of your own current
status

11. 2. Are you conscious of how much you talk
versus how much you listen?
If you are actively trying to become a better
listener, it will do you well to pay attention to
how much and how well you are listening. To
become a champion listener, you should
speak a few words in order to get the
conversation going and then listen
attentively. When you determine that enough
has been discussed about the other person's
interests, it's safe for you to express yours

12. 3. Do you prove that you are listening?
When engaged in a conversation, it's not
enough to simply stare and listen. You
must react and respond to what is
being said with your body language;
You should nod your head, make facial
expressions, smile, etc.. Additional
proof that you are listening is to ask
questions and give brief input.

13. 4. Is your input effective and well
received?
The only way to give good input is
to clearly comprehend what is
being explained to you. The
reaction of your conversation
partner will indicate the level of
your understanding

14. 5. Do you ask questions?
Input is great but nothing says you are
listening like asking relevant
questions. The right questions are
absolute proof that you are listening
and how well.

15. Achieve Success in Professional
Networking
 Listen properly
 Know your Listening Span
 Learn Some techniques to improve your listening
span
 Try to spend time only on relevant events and
matters
 Develop genuine interest on such relevant and
required matters.
 Avoid others as far as possible.
 Learn to say no whenever wherever required.

16. Listen to
Be Listened to

17. You’ll Be Successful
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