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Listening
Shawnetta King
Keiser University
Listening
Why is good listening important for both the audience and speaker?
The skill of listening is one that is very significant for every individual in every aspect of our lives. In the context of public speaking, it is a skill that is important both for the audience as well as the speaker. However, to understand the importance of listening it is important to note that listening is not all about hearing what is being said to us because good listeners are active listeners which means you hear every word being said to you assessing it and making sense out of it, and also giving a response (Rybold, 2006). For a listener, this is a skill needed if at all an individual is going to learn anything or understand what the speaker is talking about. Listening helps the audience be good students in a public speaking forum and gain a lot from it. For the speaker, listening helps to create a strong rapport with the audience since it makes them feel respected, values and involved and also acts as a way of persuading the audience to also listen back and thus making the entire public speaking process a success.
Provide two real or hypothetical examples of situations in which good listening was not employed and analyze the examples using a listening checklist to illustrate what went wrong.
A good example of an instance when good listening is not being employed is when two angry individuals are arguing with one another and speaking loudly to each other angrily most often at the same time. At the end of the day, issues go unresolved. Usually, in such an instance, everyone is so heated up wants to express themselves to the other without even caring what the others think. In such an instance the two individuals are talking back at one another, each one of them expressing what they want to say at the same time. In such an instance the very important aspect that is lacking is the aspect of turn taking. When everyone is eager to say something and end up saying speaking at the same time, they deny each other a chance to literally comprehend what the other party has to say, what they think and how they feel (Lucas, 2015).
References
Lucas, S. E. (2015). The art of public speaking (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Rybold, G. (2006). Speaking, listening and understanding: debate for non-native-English speakers. New York, NY: International Debate Education Association.