What is factual listening?
Individuals employing factual listening are attentive to new ideas and data, and are accepting of any differences from what they already know. The outcome is that their opinions or views on a situation may be altered by new information which is now available to them.
What are main types of listening?
7 types of listening skills
- Informational listening. When you want to learn something, you’ll use informational listening to understand and retain information.
- Discriminative listening.
- Biased listening.
- Sympathetic listening.
- Comprehensive listening.
- Empathetic or therapeutic listening.
- Critical listening.
What is Level 4 listening?
“Level 4 Listening” suggests listening with an open mind, open heart and open will – or in other words with curiosity, compassion and courage! The increasing depth and quality of listening from level 1 to level 4 come with the increasing presence or mindfulness of all team members.
What are Otto Scharmer’s 4 levels of listening?
Otto Scharmer’s 4 Levels of Listening are a simple, positive way to help you get better at listening. They’re slightly different to some other levels of listening. The four levels are: Downloading, Factual, Empathic and Generative. Otto Scharmer’s 4 levels of listening are Downloading, Factual Listening, Empathic Listening and Generative Listening.
What is easyempathic listening?
Empathic Listening requires a yet deeper level of listening, and needs the individual at hand to have a certain level of emotional intelligence.
How to improve your listening skills?
Use silence selectively and don’t try to fill the pauses in the conversation. Once you slow down the pace a little, you can focus on the skills of the next level, Empathizing. We spend a lot of time in our workshops helping people work on this mode of listening.