As usual I learned a lot in class today about active listening and question asking. I found a good site in the internet that talks about active listening and what we can do to improve it in our career and everyday life. It's an interesting site. Here it is and I hope you all find it relevant to our class like I did: http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/Mind%20Tools%20Listening.pdf. The lab in our class was again a little tough to do. It was certainly hard to apply my active listening skills...such as paraphrasing, asking open ended questions, and paying extra attention to the verbal and non-verbal cues. The person in my group was really good at playing a 15 year old boy! Since I don't usually "deal" with teenagers other than in the mall settings...it was tough to "actively listen" and apply, without hesitation, the skill that we talked about in class. Anyway, I also like the part in our lecture on "value of selective" such as selective attention, perception and memory. Selective memory is what my husband accuses me of always practicing on him when I'm "mad". I think it's a good skill to have to survive in any relationship!!! So check out my "selective memory" cartoon above, this really reminds me of what talked about in class! Have a great weekend everyone!
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Selective hearing--I KNOW my husband has that disease. Pretty cool blog--i like the pictures. It's also informative which is great so technically, since I'm at work, I can say I'm actually working since I'm learning as well! Good job Mar:)
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