Listening Skills
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"John Dwyer" dwye...@netspeed.com.au
I am tasked to run a presentation on listening skills in about four weeks.
I wish to quote a number of examples of substantial errors that occurred because people have misheard the spoken message. Does anyone have any examples that I can use?
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John Dwyer, Able Toastmaster National, Twilight, Canberra Gourmet and Majura Clubs District 70
ggrot ...@hotmail.com (Sky_Eagle1)
Have you tried searching?
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=listening&meta=g... for example?
Rick rick.clemen...@verizon.net
One exorcise that I've done is to have everyone stand up. They are to follow what you do. You tell them to put their hands on their shoulder and you do the same. You tell them to put your hands on their chest and you do the same. This continues until you tell them to put their hands on their hips while you put your hands on your head. They will of course put their hands on their head instead of hips.
This exorcise works well for listening or illustrating people follow what you do instead of what you say.
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"John Dwyer" dwye...@netspeed.com.au
Ladies and Gentlemen, Thanks for the reponses.
John Dwyer.
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john_sle ...@yahoo.com.au (John Sleigh)
"John Dwyer" has been asked to run a presentation on listening skills in about four weeks. and would like to quote a number of examples of substantial errors that occurred John A few other activities that can be incorporated into a listening / communication activity: To show that it's not the words that matter, but the space between the words ask people if they agree with the statement: Woman without her man would be useless.
Compare those who agree with: Woman! Without her, man would be useless.
To show that emphasis makes a difference read the sentence: I didn't say you took the book with emphasis on a different word each time.
Emphasise "I" it means it wasn't me that said it Emphasise "didn't" the statement becomes a denial Emphasise "say" and while I may have thought it, it wasn't verbalised etc.
Another interesting one I hope I don't have to tell John about, because he was at a meeting recently when I used it.
Tell your life story The first person makes a statement that is true for them about something taht happened very early in their life.
e.g. I was born in a small village in a remote part of Eastern Africa.
The next person repeats it, then adds something that is true for them that took place at a slightly later age.
I was born in a small village in a remote part of Eastern Africa. The hospital was in Orange County, about mid way between Los Angeles and San Diego.
The next person repeats the staements so far, then adds something else that is true for them that took place at a slightly later age.
I was born in a small village in a remote part of Eastern Africa. The hospital was in Orange County, about mid way between Los Angeles and San Diego. It rained heavily on my first day at school.
When I ran this at Canberra Gourmnet as a Table Topics alternative last month it reached about 15 sentences (and contributors) before the next person missed a sentence.
It worked well without any note-taking being allowed (don't forget to stress that at the start, John) We then repeated it and the next round ran out at about 4 contributors.
So if you try it and it doesn't get far the first time, don't give up.
Have Fun John Sleigh, DTM Sydney Australia
ionarodri ...@hotmail.com (iona)
Hello John: One exercise could be to have a couple of volunteers (4 or more)choose all but two of volunteers to leave the room (not the audience) have one of these volunteers read a paragraph which should be relatively complicated to everyone. Then request the second volunteer to repeat verbatim to the next person brought into the room. What will result is a deviation from the original piece read. It never fails, the message always gets distorted. The idea being proving a difference in what is conveyed and what is understood by a participant.
Hope this helps, Iona Rodricks, ATM-S, CL Meadowvale Toastmasters #585043 District 60, Div 9 Area 39 p.s. I hope this message isn't posted twice - I don't know why this occurs when I post.
"Yoj" jgaylo...@earthlink.net
Probably the simplest example is to use the old game of "Telephone".
Whisper something - a sentence or two - to the first person in the first row. Have that person whisper it to the person next to them. Continue this until the message has reached the last person in the last row.
Have that person stand up and tell the message he or she received. Then tell the group your original message. I have played this as a game many times. Only once did the ending message match the original. In that case the original message was a single word - popcorn.
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Joy Gaylord, ATM, CL Simi Valley Toastmasters, 3533-33 Nova Toastmasters, 5507-52 Storytelling & Performing Arts Toastmasters, 7763-52 Southern California, USA
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