Listening Skills Training: How to Truly Listen, Understand, and Validate for Better and Deeper Connections

by James W. Williams

Discover the Art, Psychology, and Techniques to Become an Amazing ListenerDid you know that you could change the entire quality of your life just by focusing on one simple action you do every single day? You’ll progress quicker in your career. Your relationships with your co-workers, friends, lovers, and parents, and even with passing strangers, can improve dramatically. You can open your mind to learn new skills and information in a way you’ve never experienced before.

What is this change?

It’s the change of learning how to listen to others properly.Listening Skills How to Truly Listen, Understand, and Validate for Better and Deeper Connections dives deep into the art of listening, a seemingly long-lost skill that so many of us have forgotten how to do properly, despite it being able to bring so many benefits into everyone’s lives. After all, there’s a reason the experts claim that the most important element of any successful relationship is being able to communicate properly.

James will take you on a journey into the science and psychology that goes into listening while providing you with powerful, actionable tips, so you can develop the skill as fast and as effectively as possible.

Some of the powerful topics you’ll discover ✓ The psychology of listening

✓ How to become an amazing listener

✓ How to become more aware of yourself and your own emotions

✓ Acknowledging your own expectations and judgments that stop you from listening

✓ How to validate others (the most powerful listening skill you can learn!)

✓ The art of reading body language

✓ How to know when someone is lying to you or gaslighting you

✓ Tips for responding in the best possible way

✓ And so much more!

This book is only for readers who are ready to change their lives. Once you’re ready to improve your listening skills to improve your relationships in all aspects of life, it’s time to turn to the first page.

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Genres: Self Help, Communication, Nonfiction

178 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 26, 2021

Reviews

[Aldo · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are valuable tips to improve our listening skills. I agree with the author that "being able to listen to someone is one of the most important skills you'll ever learn." If you want to learn, practice, and become a better active listener to enhance your relationships with people, give this well-written book a shot!

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Practical easy to utilise self development book.
Backed up with science and interesting facts.
The tools and tips are told and demonstrated in stories throughout and referred back to as the book progresses.
Reading this and returning will help you become a better listener and communicator.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

How well do you listen? If you are like many people, you could use some serious effort to improve. This book provides many useful tips and guidelines for improving listening skills, and hopefully greater success in relationships and business. Rather than being a passive act, the true art of listening requires focus and presence, is active and involved. The author presents seven well-written helpful chapters addressing every aspect of listening using friendly, conversational text, sample interactive dialogs as examples, and ways to practice and hone your listening skill. There may be some aspects of the book that have been covered in other similar materials, but the author writes, organizes, and explains the material well, creating an accessible guide and a good choice to read on this subject. An enjoyable and useful book full of reminders and refreshers on how to put your best ear forward.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review..

[AugustRose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting and thought provoking book. It is a multidimensional book, covering a broad spectrum of communication on many levels.
I don’t have a problem listening, but have much to learn how to validate, listen to understand where the other person is coming from, not interrupt with questions, which I thought was part of being good listener.
I highly recommend this book, James did an excellent job in covering so many aspects of conversing and listening.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

[Dale · Rating 5 out of 5]

**“When we are taught about listening, it’s often presented as a passive skill, something you have to do while you allow your eyes to glaze over, your mind to drift, all as you simply wait for your opportunity to speak again.” -- James W. Williams **

Listening is an important part of communication that seems to have gone to the wayside over the years. The author presents well-written helpful chapters addressing many aspects of listening. The author shows easy ways to practice and hone your listening skill.

[Giovanni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of tips to improving our listening skills and improving our relationships

James W Williams outlines how we can become more effective listeners and communicators. This book has a great list of exercises and tips that enables you to develop a plan of action that will result in improve communication skills.

Really useful nowadays, for every field! Be a good listener could really make the difference in our relationship with the others, and in our life!

[J · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seemed like a better book at the start than it did at the end. Felt like the author used very little of his own work and copied & pasted blocks from other sources. There were some good examples on conversations, for me a lot more of these would have been beneficial, or a supporting audio attachment where these could be expanded. Not sure if I would recommend, there's better material on youtube/fireside. If you're quick at reading then its probably worth a quick read.

[Tony · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good introduction to a lost skill

This is a book that brings to your attention the importance of listening as part of communication. An art that has sadly, fallen by the way. To listen, truly listen, to someone is the greatest gift you can give them. This book introduces the basic concepts and the skills necessary to be a good listener.

[C. McLeish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye Opening For Sure

I always thought I was a good listener. After reading this book, I realize I have a lot of areas where I can improve on. I have already started to implement and practice in the different areas where I am not only weak, but I didn’t know it was relevant.

[Bruce Coats · Rating 2 out of 5]

conventional communication wisdom

We should want more than older studies that are often quoted but were never accurate, conversation analysis from someone who does not regularly analyze dialogue, or methods that are true to a researched model.

[Evellard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A go to for a quick listening skill advice.

Excellent reference book for basic and effective listening skills applied knowledge. As the book title, Listening Skills training. Take time to practice.

[Brian Zondi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Average book

The book seem to have a lot of information but some I struggled to follow because some of the things looked like repetition. You can try you may enjoy it.

[Sarah Drasner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, quick read. The intro is a bit too long, but great once you're past it.

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to this on Audible. It was easy to listen to and had relatable examples.

[sherline jules · Rating 4 out of 5]

good

It was very informative and I learned a few things from it . If you are someone who needs ideas how to listen to others besides themselves.