8 Bad Listening Habits to

Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

• Bad habits to break • ID-ing the important stuff

Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

This is soo boring. I’m hungry… #1: Calling the Subject Dull Using dry and dusty subject matter as an excuse to let your mind wander Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

A yellow shirt? Ugh. Bad choice.

#2: Criticizing the Speaker Spending valuable time critiquing the way the speaker looks, acts, and talks. Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

#3: Listening Only For Facts Skipping the main ideas and only recording disconnected facts Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

#4: Rigidly Outlining Forcing all lectures into an outline, even when the speaker doesn’t present that way Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

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resolved only getting #5:by Faking attention Looking attentive even the facts or ideas that the though your mind is speaker is trying tobutconvey anything focused Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

#6: Tolerating Distractions Squirming, talking, or shuffling papers in a way that distracts themselves AND their neighbors Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

#7: Choosing Only What’s Easy Spending leisure time listening to mindless TV rather than stuff that requires a brain and builds listening skills Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

Talk 5x slower than

Think 5x faster than #8: Wasting Difference B/ Speech and Thought Speeds

Failing to take advantage of your brain’s ability to move faster than the speaker’s mouth Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

* Repeats the same information * Slows down * Gets louder * Writes on the SmartBoard Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

Words and phrase that help listeners understand a lecture Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

Today … We’re focusing on…

Our goal is … We’ll be looking at… Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

There are 3 reasons… First… Second… Third… Most important . . . Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

I. A. B.

II. A.

III.

I. For example . . . In order to. . . Because . . . Also . . .

A. B. C. II. A.

III. Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

In conclusion. . . Signal words give To summarize ... the listener clues about the content Because of a lecture

From this we see . . .

Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff

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This is important . . .

Remember this . . . You’re going to see this again . . . Today’s Agenda: • 8 Bad Listening Habits to Kick • How-to ID the Important Stuff