Ineffective Listening

SHARED FROM:

Lyndon Jones, Effective listening, Education & Training, February, 1980

Lyndon Jones, Effective listening, Education & Training, February, 1986

 

Poor listener may be identified when the person:

• calls a subject uninteresting
• criticises the speaker's delivery
• fakes attention
• tolerates distractions

Some Causes of Ineffective Listening

•        Too keen to be the sender

•        I know what you are going to say

•        Distracted too early

•        Not interested in what you are going to say

•        Not interested in the speaker

•        Speaker is a poor communicator

•        Don't like the speaker

•        Too busy to listen

•        Pre-occupied; possibly with a personal problem