5 poor listening styles
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Five poor listening styles are identified: spacing out, pretend listening, selective listening, word listening, and self-centered listening. These styles involve allowing one's mind to wander, making agreeing comments without paying attention, only listening to parts that interest you, focusing only on words without body language or emotion, and listening only from your own perspective. The document prompts reflection on which styles one engages in, what that says about them, how speakers likely feel, and how to improve active listening skills.
5 poor listening styles
- 1. Five Poor Listening Styles
- 2. Spacing Out Your mind is in another place and you are caught up in your own thoughts
- 3. Pretend Listening • You make agreeing comments like, “yeah”, “uh-huh” • The speaker usually figures it out quickly and feels that they are not important enough to be listened to
- 4. Selective Listening • You only listen to the part of the conversation that interests you • A key word will catch your interest and then you may change the conversation to something you want to talk about with that word in it.
- 5. Word Listening • We actually pay attention, but only listen to the words and not the body language or the emotions that are behind the words. • You don’t seem to be on the same page as the speaker
- 6. Self Centered Listening • We listen from our own point of view. Instead of listening in the other people’s shoes, we want them in our shoes • Often say things like –I know exactly how you feel • Or You think that your day was bad, you should hear about my day
- 7. Common Listening Responses • Judging • Advising • Probing
- 8. • Which listening styles are you guilty of? • What does that say about you? • How do you think people talking to you feel? • What can you do to change and improve your listening skills?