Workers who possess exemplary listening skills are valuable members of the workplace. Effective listening skills support customer service initiatives, benefit workplace relationships and prevent ...

There’s nothing that breaks down human communication more than when the ears go on vacation and the mouth keeps working overtime. I believe one of the most important strategies I can offer the young ...

What does active listening in relationships look like? As I sit in my office while the rain comes down, I contemplate the complexities of human nature and wonder about relationships. Why do some have ...

You can teach hard skills, but emotional intelligence and active listening? These are the skills that really matter when looking for a job. Interviewing is full of uncertainty. What set of skills are ...

For years, smartphone users have suspected that their devices were eavesdropping on their conversations to serve targeted ads. Now, recent revelations suggest these concerns could be justified. A ...

What happens in the brain when simply hearing becomes listening? To answer this question, researchers at the University of Basel have traced the neuronal fingerprint of the two types of sound ...

There’s a cute story of the worker returning to his desk, trembling, after his annual review with his boss. “What’s wrong?” asked his co-worker. “Boss said I have two problems, and I need to work on ...

Listening is an active process that involves focusing on what is said without allowing other thoughts to invade the process. Small business owners and entrepreneurs who employ serious listening skills ...

Whether the words of a story come from listening or reading, it appears that the brain activates the same areas to represent their semantics, or meaning, according to new research. Share on Pinterest ...

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Facebook's stance on music is simple: when it's discovered through friends, people listen to more songs and from a wider variety of artists. That's why, less than two months ago at its 2011 f8 ...