Listening Barriers

Introduction

Listening is a convoluted process of selecting, assisting to, constructing significance from, recalling, and responding to verbal and nonverbal messages. Listening involves the process of selecting, sorting through various sounds that contend for your attention; attending to, focusing on a specific sound or message; understanding, assigning significance to sounds; Remembering, recalling information; and Responding, affirming your understanding of a message. Whether a one-by-one is cognizant of it or not, every individual has a specific listening style, (preferred way of producing sense out of the spoken messages that are heard) that applies to them. In this paper I will discuss the distinct listening styles and barriers, the ones I personally have recognized with, and their cause and result on my being. (Davidhizar, 26)

Discussion

Effective listening is arguably one of the most significant skills to have today. Personal relationships require good listening to face perplexing issues together. Business persons and employees require productive listening skills to solve convoluted problems rapidly and stay competitive. Students and professors require it to understand convoluted issues in their fields. (Robertson,1053)

Effective listening is not about the words having consigned, it requires more than hearing the sounds transmitted. We should listen for significance and we can manage this by focusing on the persons and not only on words.To assist us listen and broadcast better, we have listed common barriers for productive listening that we should watch out every time we are in a conversation.

Environmental Distractions

These encompass cell phones, music players, television, portable gaming consoles and others. These are the most widespread barriers for productive listening. Yes it is very basic but most of us still overlook this very basic stuffs and I can see that they are still widespread in gathering areas and other gatherings.

Whenever possible, put yourself in a good ecological position for more productive listening. (Robertson,1053) And ...