Put Necessary Effort to Become a Better Communicator

 

A meaningful and effective communication is crucial to human growth and function. One of the most important skills that you can learn in business world is having the ability to listen and most successful companies prefer to hire a team who have quality listening and communication skills. Communication involves effective listening and understanding the message of the other person who is talking. In fact, an employee can end up causing organizations huge losses if he or she possesses poor listening that can lead to mistakes. There are many reasons why we need to become a good listener. If you are a good listener employee, it allows you to build better relationships with your co-workers and customers, gives you the ability to demonstrate empathy and allows you to become more efficient and productive. The most important part of communication by far is good listening skills and is even more important than speaking. Unfortunately, more often than not, there are hinder to our ability to communicate effectively as we are too focused on the speaking aspect of the conversation.

 

A good listening skill can minimize misunderstandings and foster good communication. While other common relationship concerns such serious issues within their own right, as lack of emotional support, financial stress, unfulfilled expectations, inability to resolve conflict, this kind of interpersonal conflicts may either be easily or avoided with the application of good listening skills. There are occasions when some situation may progress far more quickly than expected and conflicts become explosive. It may be important to slow down and listen in these circumstances because listening well allows you to discover the other party’s true concerns or needs accurately determine the situation from the other party’s perspective and respond in a manner that may end the heated situation. Learning and practicing different types of listening skills may be necessary in an effort to become a better communicator. In most cases, we tend to listen in order to learn facts, analyze a particular issue and uncover emotions. You have to use the method that works best for you if you want to improve your listening skill.

 

There are some guides to improve your listening skill and to help you determine if you are listening properly. Removing all distractions is the first and most important thing you need to do and distractions can be your food, your phone or your laptop. Good listening skills involve your focus on them instead of something else when you are having a conversation with someone. When you're talking to someone, unfortunately it is very common and is very rude to browse through your phone so you need to just remove the temptation and put those kinds of distractions away. We often forget to pay attention to what the other person is saying because most of the time, we are already planning what we might say in response and just focusing on ourselves. We can say we had that listening skills if we fully understand what the other person is trying to say, we pay attention and show them that we are listening and are interested to what the other person is saying.