My husband always says that we have two ears and one mouth, and it's best that we use them
proportionately.
Now, when it comes to communication training, we often take public speaking classes and
presentation skills training.
But how many people do you know who have had a speech coach who also trains in listening?
Now, I often talk about a conversation as a dialogue.
And dia, D-I-A, dia, the origin of D-I-A, means two.
Logue means discourse.
Now, when we put them together and two people are having a dialogue, they're both speaking,
hopefully not at the same time, but also they're doing what?
They're listening.
A dialogue involves one person speaking and the other person listening.
Today's communication skills principle is about listening, something that's going to
really help you for when it's your turn to speak.
Let's start by having you pay attention to the sounds in the room.
Just take a moment, few seconds, and tune into the noises that you hear.
Now, I'm going to take you on a little journey that hopefully is going to take you a little
deeper into the act of hearing, because listening is composed of so many parts but it starts
with hearing.
So I'm going to ask you to glance down at the floor, gently keep your eyes open, and
let's just kind of tune into all of our senses for a moment.
What do you see?
As you're looking at the floor and you're aware of what you see, maybe smell.
What do you smell?
Just be aware of what you smell.
Take a second to tune into the taste that might be in your mouth.
Right? The different flavors.
We can even tune in to sense of touch by running our thumb along our fingers.
Really tuning in.
But the sense that I want to focus on is hearing.
So I want you to close your eyes and I want you to imagine the shape of your ears.
I want you to tune into the sounds that you hear close to you.
The sounds that you hear further away from you.
Where inside your ear is my voice reaching?
I can hear the sounds from the room.
I can hear the sounds from the room next to me.
Can you hear the sounds in the room next to you.
What about the sounds that might go outside the window, outside the building?
Because if you really tune in, you might hear some of those sounds as well.
Maybe a car.
Maybe a bird.
Maybe the rain.
Can be anything.
Take a nice long breath.
If your eyes are not already open, go ahead and open your eyes and tune in to your natural
sense of hearing.
How is it different?
Is it more awake?
Because with an awakened state of hearing, you'll probably be able to understand and
go through the listening cycle so much better for your response.
My name is Jill Diamond.
I thank you for being here today.
I want you to come back to hear more and watch more of my YouTube videos, and I want to thank
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I'll be back with another communication skills principle real soon.
Keep on listening.