Student Success Skills

Practicing Active Listening

by jennifer

August 31, 2012

Exhibit A

BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE LISTENING

What I Do	Sample Barriers
o	Allow background noise to affect listening.
o	Allow daily events or interruptions to affect listening.
o	Have prejudice or negative attitudes toward the person speaking.
o	Don’t make enough eye contact (which should be made 80% of the time) with the person speaking.
o	Lack interest in what is being said.
o	Become defensive when the other person criticizes me.
o	Want to tell ‘my’ story before the other person is finished.
o	Interrupt the speaker before s/he is finished.
o	Respond emotionally to what is being said.
o	Let the speaker’s voice quality of speed influence me.
o	Let someone else distract me.

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This semester I have made many improvements; one major improvement is keeping track of my assignments on a white board I keep on my wall. When I get home from class I fill out the assignments I received for that day and do as many of them as I can. This is very helpful because I don't fall behind on my assignments, and I keep up with homework. Another improvement is going to my classes. Before this semester I was lazy and missed far too many classes. By simply going to my classes, my grades have changed greatly. I know when homework assignments are due, exam times, and I kmow so much more of the information we learn..

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