Post on 24-Dec-2015
Today’s Agenda:• 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick• How-to ID the Important Stuff
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Today’s Agenda:• 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick• How-to ID the Important Stuff
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8 Bad Listening Habits & How to Break Them
Today’s Agenda:• 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick• How-to ID the Important Stuff
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This is soo boring. I’m hungry…
#1: Calling the Subject DullUsing dry and dusty subject matter as an excuse to let your mind wander
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A yellow shirt? Ugh. Bad choice.
#2: Criticizing the SpeakerSpending valuable time critiquing the way the speaker looks, acts, and talks.
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#3: Listening Only For FactsSkipping the main ideas and only recording disconnected facts
FACTS MAIN IDEAS
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#4: Rigidly OutliningForcing all lectures into an outline, even when the speaker doesn’t present that way
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#5: Faking attentionLooking attentive even though your mind is anything but focused
OMG! I can’t believe she dumped him!
Attention: Collection of tensions that can be resolved only by getting the facts or ideas that the speaker is trying to convey
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#6: Tolerating DistractionsSquirming, talking, or shuffling papers in a way that distracts themselves AND their neighbors
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#7: Choosing Only What’s EasySpending leisure time listening to mindless TV rather than stuff that requires a brain and builds listening skills
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#8: Wasting Difference B/ Speech and Thought SpeedsFailing to take advantage of your brain’s ability to move faster than the speaker’s mouth
Think 5x faster than
Talk 5x slower than
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How to ID the Important Stuff
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If the speaker . . .* Repeats the same information
* Slows down* Gets louder
* Writes on the SmartBoard
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Signal WordsWords and phrase that help listeners
understand a lecture
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Preview WordsToday …
Our goal is …
We’re focusing on…
We’ll be looking at…
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Main Idea WordsThere are 3 reasons…
Most important . . .
First…Second…Third…
I.A.B.
II.A.
III.
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Support Ideas WordsFor example . . .
Because . . .In order to. . .
Also . . .
I.A.B.C.
II.A.
III.
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Summary WordsIn conclusion. . .
Because . . .
To summarize . . .
From this we see . . .
Signal words give the listener clues about the content of a lecture
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Test Clues WordsThis is important . . .
Remember this . . .
You’re going to see this again . . .