Learning Objectives
In idXready™: Improving Your Listening Skills, participants will:
- Recognize the importance of developing good listening skills by reflecting on their past listening experiences
- Discover the five different listening approaches used in communication and the specific characteristics of each approach
- Discover their most natural listening approaches
- Explore their strengths and challenges as listeners
- Identify
effective listening approaches and behaviors, and practice modifying
their listening approaches to meet the communication needs of team
members
- Create action plans to improve their ability to
communicate effectively to all team members by using different
listening approaches
Program Length
Approximately 4¼ - 5½ hours. Breaks are not included in this time.
Learning Model Used
Personal Listening Profile®
System Requirements
For Windows
- Microsoft Office 2003 with Power Point 2003
- Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 +) or Windows XP (Recommended)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
- USB Ports (USB 2 recommended)
- 512 MB of memory (Minimum)
For Macs
- Mac OS 9 or higher
- PowerPoint 2004
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)
- Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher (free at www.adobe.com)