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Lila H.

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What can you do about it

The best way to maintain close relationships is through everyday talk. Don't just reduce conversations to logistics such as what to have for dinner.

When you ask, "How are you?" you have actually to listen to the answer. You can't assume that you already know what's going on.

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You're Not Listening. Here's Why.

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Communication

Active Listening: The Master Key to Effective Communication

Active listening, as the name implies requires effort. It is much more than simply "hearing" what is being said. This article will show you how to improve your listening skills to make you a better conversationalist, and a more empathetic friend, spouse, parent or partner.

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Active listening

Is a technique for developing our ability to listen, to make a conscious effort to understand what people are really saying.

As a communication technique, it is used in many prof...

Core components of Active Listening

Comprehending: To communicate, we must first understand what the other person (or people) are actually saying.
Retaining: To respond in an appropriate manner, we must understand and retain what the other person has said.
Responding: An active response should show that we understand what the other person has said, have paid attention to their words and also read their non-verbal cues.

Improving Active Listening skills

Educate yourself on common cognitive biases and shortcuts;
Avoid trying to respond immediately. Allow the other person time to finish speaking, then provide a considered response;
Minimize conversational narcissism by keeping track of your use of pronouns(I, me);
Seek to develop a clear picture of the other person’s logic;

Alana

@alana_378

Why even successful leaders struggle to communicate

The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.

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Closeness-Communication Bias

Highly successful leaders sometimes struggle to communicate with people that they know well. This error is not prevalent while talking to strangers, and is called the Closeness-Communication Bi...

George Bernard Shaw

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

Speak To A Group As Individuals

While speaking to groups, a leader tends to be formal, and is distracted by the large crowd, failing to create a deep level of intimacy.

The trick to effective communication is to deliver the message as if one is talking to an individual. This makes the speech emotionally genuine, with each listener able to grasp the energy and attention, as they would if it was a one-on-one communication.

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Felix

@felixg26

How to Have Closer Friendships (and Why You Need Them)

Even if you find it easy to make friends - and it's not, for most people - getting truly close to people is still difficult. Here's how to make it easier. Like so many people, I grew up watching the TV show "Friends," dreaming of the day I would be living a glamorous city life surrounded by a group of close friends.

nytimes.com

The need for close friendships

We are social beings and we need to create intimacy with other people, for the well-being of our body, mind, and heart.

Close friendships regulate ...

Defining closeness

Close friendships need intimacy and reciprocation to exist.

Intimacy means being able to be fully yourself and be seen and understood by others.
Reciprocation means that both people feel they are seen and understood by the other person.

ta-text="What you learned...">“We think about relationships as things that happen to us, but the truth is that we make them happen.”<

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