Active Listening Techniques: 30 Practical Tools to Hone Your Communication Skills

Active Listening Techniques: 30 Practical Tools to Hone Your Communication Skills

To listen actively is to listen with complete attention and an engaged mind and body. And, while it may come naturally to some, it's also a skill that can be honed through practice. Active Listening Techniques will help you do just that, so you can ensure the people around you feel respected, understood, and heard. Through thirty practical communication tools, you'll acquire the skills you need to better get your message across, allowing you to cultivate healthier personal relationships, achieve greater career success, and more. This guide to listening skills for adults helps you: ● Learn the basics --Discover the importance of paraphrasing, nonverbal cues, emotional labeling, mirroring, validation, and other fundamental techniques. ● Put your skills to use --Each communication tool includes an illustrative anecdote, as well as digestible strategies to help you apply the concept to your everyday life. ● Manage conflict --Learn how invaluable being an active listener is when it comes to navigating difficult or emotionally charged situations. Learn how to develop stronger connections through these simple and effective listening exercises. Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW, was born and raised in New York City by immigrant parents, along with her older brother and younger sister. She is a wife and a mother of two. She is a licensed clinical social worker and CBT therapist. She has over ten years of experience helping clients with anger management, depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, parenting, and interpersonal problems. She's written books about communication skills and anger management, and plans to write many more in order to help as many people as possible. Allyson Ryan is an actress with extensive stage, television, and voiceover experience, including commercials, animation, video games, and promos. The narrator of over eighty audiobooks, she received an Earphones Award for her narration of Kaya McLaren's On the Divinity of Second Chances.