Tag: Communication
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Appreciative Listening Definition: A Plain-English Guide
Appreciative listening means listening for the value inside what you are hearing. Not the flaw first. Not the counterargument first. Not the quickest summary you can carry away from the conversation. It is the practice of attending to what someone loves, what they are trying to share, and what kind of experience they are inviting…
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Perception and Critical Thinking: How Attention Affects Intention
In today’s world, we are often tasked with processing debilitating levels of information at nearly all times. To meet this need, oftentimes the first sacrifice is our emotional investment in the activities around us: if we tried to keep up, pathetically, with emotional investment of all that happens, we would exhaust ourselves before breaching even…
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Education for Critical Consciousness and Getting More from Life
Education for critical consciousness, improving critical thinking skills, or considering critical development more generally are all worthwhile goals for an individual at any stage of their life, young or adult. And yet, often I hear from friends, colleagues, and coworkers this almost self-defeating attitude of some subject being too complex, some puzzle being too tricky,…