{"id":15814,"date":"2019-07-18T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/?p=15814"},"modified":"2019-07-18T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:04:07","slug":"key-reasons-poor-listening-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hubgets.com\/blog\/key-reasons-poor-listening-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Reasons for Poor Listening Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Listening is critical to your workday and poor listening skills can ruin it. Top executives for a Chicago manufacturing plant were asked to survey the role of listening in their plant. After hearing a seminar on listening, Ralph G. Nichols and Leonard A. Stevens explain in their Harvard Business Review<\/a> article, that one of the most common responses was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

?Frankly, I had never thought of listening as an important subject by itself. But now that I am aware of it, I think that perhaps 80 percent of my work depends on my listening to someone, or on someone else listening to me.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is true for nearly anyone who works with other people. Having good listening skills is critical to avoiding miscommunication and staying connected with other team members and managers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Improving your listening is critical for being\neffective in the office. The first step to doing so is understanding and\nidentifying your poor listening habits. Here are common reasons for poor\nlistening skills and how you can improve them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Too many distractions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Distractions are everywhere, whether it?s a phone ringing or someone interrupting a meeting. The temperature of a conference room could even count as distraction if it?s making you uncomfortable. As such, the four common main types of distractions according to Bright Hub<\/a> are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n