Personal Listening Profile^®

Personal Insight into Communication Preferences: Helps you understand your preferences, strengths, and growth areas as a listener.

	Gain a deeper understanding of the focus of your listening, the motivations behind your listening, and the overt behaviors you demonstrate while listening.
	Gain a feeling of acceptance with the understanding of the nature and value of your contribution.
	Understand the sources of frustrations at work if you are consistently required to listen in ways that are incompatible with your style.
	Understand the danger of not realizing your limitations as a listener.

Effective Information Processing: Helps you more accurately and efficiently gather, understand, and judge the information presented to you.

	Learn how to gather information that is more thorough and complete.
	Learn how to make decisions and draw conclusions that are processed more critically.
	Draw attention to the gaps in your information processing style.
	Learn how to organize information and listen for core meanings of the message.

Understanding of Diversity in Communication Styles: Helps you understand how others might have listening styles that are different from your own.

	Understand that others may have different motivations, priorities, and instincts that compete with yours.
	Help team members understand that diversity does not equal adversity.
	Understand your expectations of others within the communication process.
	Understand how others might misinterpret your listening behavior.

Dialogue About Communication: Helps individuals and groups accept, welcome, and encourage the entire spectrum of listening styles.

	Encourage team members to understand that there are no right or wrong listening preferences, just differences.
	Create a safe forum to discuss differences.
	Create a culture of acceptance around diverse listening styles.

Relating to Other Communication Styles: Develop communication strategies that help you avoid misunderstandings, frustration, and resentment.

	Understand that even though people need to adjust at times, their preferences are not necessarily wrong.
	Develop a model and language through which groups can more harmoniously, cooperatively, and efficiently work together.
	Allow greater focus on understanding the needs and perspectives of team members.
	Develop specific strategies that minimize or avoid miscommunication with team members.

You can complete the Personal Listening Profile in privacy, online. The results will indicate your preferred style and how it affects your communication skills. When you order, you will be sent an access code by email. Use the access code to get a copy of the profile. It takes 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Your results will be returned to you almost immediately.  

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