Effective Listening Skills for Professionals

In this class, you’ll learn Effective Listening Skills for Professionals. Good listening is consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 Communication Skills that hiring managers and employers want their people to have.

Who doesn’t like a good listener? Yet, listening is a powerful but often neglected communication skill.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

• Fundamentals of active listening
• Dos and Don’ts for common listening “issues”
• Develop your comprehensive listening skills
• Develop your empathetic listening skills

The class is designed specifically for employee-level professionals, team members, and other types of individual contributors. It’s meant to be your first class in listening skills.

Be sure to download the workbook and follow along with the lessons!

You can go through the class as an individual but it’s also designed to experience with an entire team.

More About Listening

At work, the average employee spends up to 50% of their time listening. That percentage goes up with every leadership promotion.

In professional settings, the lack of good listening skills can cost people career advancement opportunities. Studies show that up to 96% of people believe they are good listeners, but the vast majority are not.

In contrast, good listening is usually viewed as an important leadership behavior.

This class will help you make immediate improvements.