{"id":8035,"date":"2018-11-05T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T09:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8035"},"modified":"2018-10-23T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T19:09:10","slug":"what-is-intentional-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/what-is-intentional-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Intentional Listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple definition is \u201clistening with intention\u201d.\u00a0 Go deeper.\u00a0As a listener, start by getting out of your own head and away from your perceptions, biases, and ideas.\u00a0 Focus completely on the speaker.\u00a0 Notice the words, phrasing, and verbal behaviors of the speaker.\u00a0 Notice also their emotions, energy, and level of thinking.\u00a0 Be aware of their perceptions and possible biases.\u00a0Consider whether they are primarily emotional or logical.\u00a0 Observe whether they are talking about what they see, what they hear, what they do, how they feel, where they are, what they smell, what they taste, and most significantly, what it all means to them.<\/p>\n

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During coach training participants discuss listening and practice listening skills.\u00a0 Basic skills include an awareness of different listening styles, rephrasing or succinctly summarizing for clarity, reflecting emotions and energy behind what is said, listening cumulatively, plus awareness of personal style, learning style, language patterns, and thought patterns.\u00a0 As coaches further enhance their skills, recognizing context and easily adjusting to the language of the speaking further enhances listening.<\/p>\n

What does intentional listening accomplish?\u00a0 Intentional listening meets a very basic human need of the speaker, to be heard and understood.\u00a0 As much as this is sought, the irony is that the majority hear far less than they realize.<\/p>\n