Active listening is a valuable skill that helps you truly understand others. By giving full attention, asking thoughtful questions, and showing empathy, you can strengthen relationships, resolve conflicts, and become a genuinely great listener in any situation.
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Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening. While regular listening can look like being blank and silent, Active Listening is engaged, creative, and responsive.
In this course, you will gain both the internal awareness and external skill-set that are the foundation of Active Listening. You will be able to have far more satisfying, interesting, successful conversations.
I created this practical Udemy course for you--filled with my unique insights from starting out as a terrible listener to now being a professional listener, a Master Certified Coach. I’ve been teaching people how to listen actively for twenty years now and these skills are both learnable and priceless. My course is packed with real-world examples that demystify and simplify what to pay attention to so you can be a great listener.
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James Kong is a sound and communication expert. His vision is for a world that listens consciously and speaks powerfully.
Julian is author of the books How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening and Sound Business.
His five TED talks about sound and communication have been watched over 90 million times and his latest talk, How to speak so that people want to listen, is the sixth most watched TED talk of all time.
James is a media commentator on speaking and listening skills, and has been featured by the likes of TIME Magazine, The Economist, The BBC, and The Times.
James's company, The Sound Agency, works with major brands worldwide to improve the way they sound. Their ...
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This course includes 2 modules, 5 lessons, and 1:15 hours of materials.
Improve your reactive habits, define your listening mindset, amplify your curiosity, & add value as a great listener
Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening. While regular listening can look like being blank and silent, Active Listening is engaged, creative, and responsive.
In this course, you will gain both the internal awareness and external skill-set that are the foundation of Active Listening. You will be able to have far more satisfying, interesting, successful conversations.
Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening.
Assess your developing active listening skills with this mid-term quiz to reinforce techniques learned during the course.
Master Certified Coach
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