As a listener understanding your biases and ensuring you listen with you eyes, ears and heart can greatly impact how successful you are in your job.
There is a difference between listening and really hearing what someone is saying.
'Listening barriers/filters' was very helpful in my own self-assessments and reflection. This is really helpful information that I find myself (in some cases) ensuring that I am honest, constructively critical and open in my self-assessments just to make sure that I'm not holding back my own opportunity to grow.
Fascinating that our listening effectiveness is only estimated to be 25%! I will definitely focus on active listening from now on.
I appreciated the quick and clean breakdown of the types of positive as well as negative listening - particularly the negative, it is important to understand that often negativity comes from the listeners perception not the speakers participation.
I learned about empathic listening which I really liked, which is to listen with your eyes, ears, and heart. I intend to use all the listening techniques I have learned here onto the students.
