Action Plan for Effective Listening

Action Plan for Effective Listening Please respond to the following Discussion 1 Action Plan for Effective Listening. Create a formalized action plan with specific steps describing what you can do to evaluate your progress in becoming an effective listener. Look at the take action plan in Thinking Activity 3. 4 and you must review the Eight steps of effective listening before you are qualified to answer this question. Students will respond to the followingDescribe exactly what you will do to improve your listening. Must show steps that relate to improving listening. It takes a lot of concentration and determination to be an active listener. Old habits are hard to break, and if your listening habits are as bad as many peoples are, and then theres a lot of habit-breaking to do Be deliberate with your listening and remind yourself frequently that your goal is to truly hear what the other person is saying. Set past all other thoughts and behaviors and concentrate on the message.Ask questions, reflect, and paraphrase to ensure you understand the message. If you dont, then youll find that what someone says to you and what you hear can be astonishingly different Describe when and where you will try to improve your listening (days/times/places). Must be specific. I would start using active listening today to become a better communicator, improve my workplace productivity, and develop better relationships. Describe specifically how you will check your progress.Must be specific. Being an actively empathic listener means, then, that you not only make sure youre actively paying attention but that you let the speaker you know you are. You ask questions when youre not clear on what the other person is communicating, you try to infer what the person is feeling, and you let the person know that you remember what he or she actually said. You neer drift off into la-la land, and your face doesnt assume that of a computer in sleep mode.