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Course Pack: Are you Listening?
Are you Listening? eCourse
In this bitesize and practical 15 minute self-led course, you'll practice proven ways to purposefully enhance your listening skills. A great refresher to the live session, or standalone skills-sprint.
Resources and Recommended Reading
Read: some tips from Adam Bryant, learned from conducting hundreds of interviews over a 30-year career in journalism.
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Listen: to this guilded meditation from Mindful.org helps to connect to our sense of hearing.
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Read: A short blog-post from Co-Active to recap on the three levels of listening.
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Watch: In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, "We are losing our listening." In this short, fascinating Ted talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other people and the world around you
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Read: This article from theonebrief.com explores why is listening becoming so important for organisations, and what steps can we take to cultivate this increasingly in-demand skill.
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And additionally, a selection of books to grow your understanding of listening in many contexts:
Do Listen, Bobette Buster:
How to be Heard, Julian Treasure
The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction, Rebecca Shafir.
Time To Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind, Nancy Kline.