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Active Listening; Effective Listening Skills
Growing up our parents always taught us, treat the way you would like to be treated. Well, the same goes for listening; we should listen to others the way we would want to be listened to. Proper listening skills are a very valuable asset to have. People who work in an organization tend to spend most of their time in some form of the communication process. Effective communication is an essential component of organizational success whether it is at the interpersonal, intergroup, intragroup, organizational, or external levels.
Even though we have been communicating throughout our entire lives, the process of transmitting information from an individual (or group) to another is a very complex process with many sources of potential error. With all communication, some of the meaning behind the message is lost in the process. This tends to happen the most in cross cultural situations where language barriers come into play. In the......

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