Disclaimer:Based on true experience and management lessons. Quite often,we display the attitude of being selective listeners,even when it is something really serious.But those that expect us to listen to them will actually feel annoyed and even offended.It is only through parenting,atleast when your child is going through that phase where she can't understand or atleast doesn't want to understand something you mean seriously, you get the taste of your own medicine -how you ignored people when they actually wanted you to listen. As she came and cried to me, holding my both the legs,I carried her,wiped her face and left her down. She came to me and I pretended to ignore her,just to show her the taste of her own medicine. The colours had dyed and she came crawling like as if she had participated in a crawling marathon and was in line for winning the good medal there. I noticed my phone on her hands.For a moment when she turned her graze to the TV,i ran like a relay race runner,took my phone,came back and played her favourite "baby shark". listening for information One of the three goals of listening focuses on gaining and evaluating ideas, facts, opinions, reasons, and so forth. The mischief on her face, exactly the same mischievous reaction when she throws down my phone carefully,but with a lot of force was on her face. A complex process that consists of being mindful, hearing, selecting and organizing information, interpreting communication, responding, and remembering. But wait!!How could she not be? I stood for a while and watched,whether could she genuinely not hear or that she was just pretending. But she didn't respond.She was not attentive. I called to her with all her favourite names. I called her with the maximum modulation that my voice could go to. She was just less than 50 metres away from me. Today,but was something very different.As usual I called her today to the kitchen,to wipe her face and mouth after I fed her breakfast. Her this attitude and skill actually gave me boasting rights of "sometimes a good mother". My usually attentive daughter always has her eyes and ears on me.Wherever I am,she is there.Be it in the kitchen or even in the balcony.Ofcourse,her this "always ears and eyes attitude has even made her a watchman for me, whenever I go inside my bathroom to take a shower. My one and a half year old became my communicative skills professor today.Unlike those boring classes we have in MBA,where communication skills are an integral part of th curriculum, today it was a live and interactive session.I understand the meaning of "selective listening" with practical example.
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