Questions from Listening Skills

 

       

Short answer type questions 

1.       How is listening different from hearing? 

2.      Why is it important to listen? 

3.      Do you often find it difficult to listen properly? 

4.      How can you overcome this difficulty? 

5.      Why is it important to listen to our customers and clients? 

6.      How does listening help in developing good relations with people? 

7.      How is listening and understanding from another person’s point of view important for a manager?

8.     It is important to listen to every employee in the organisation, including those at the bottom of the hierarchy. Why? 

9.      Why does the elderly gentleman rush to the general merchant’s store? 

10.  What is interesting about the beggar?

11.   Why does Mr. Kishore speak to Deep Chand? 

12.  What do people imagine about Seth Govind Ram? 

13.  Who or what really breaks the bank?

Case study OR Real Life Experience

In a paragraph of 150 words write about an instance, when somebody did not listen to you and its consequence, or when you did not listen well and its consequence.

Proverbs on listening skills

·         Listening is the beginning of understanding … Wisdom is the reward of a lifetime of listening.

·         Listening requires more intelligence than speaking.

·         To listen, well is as powerful, a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.

·         Talk becomes an argument when one person stops listening.

·         Listening looks easy, but it is not simple. Every head is a world.

·         Who speak sows; who listens reaps.

·         Eat what is cooked; listen to what I said.

·         Listen 100 times; ponder 1000 times; speak once.

·         From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking, repentance.

·         The wise man has long years and a short tongue.