Listening

Put your new listening skills into action this week on Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, or any other celebration you partake in. Continue

Given that we devote so much time to listening, we would be well advised to do it better: we need to understand the process and improve our skills so that we can become more effective in our work and personal relationships. Continue

Studies show that many of us spend 70 to 80 percent of our waking hours engaged in some form of communication. Breaking it down further: we spend about 9 percent writing, 16 percent reading, 30 percent speaking and 45 percent listening. Studies also find that most of us are quite lacking in our listening skills. Why are so many of us so bad at listening when we do so much of it? Continue