Listening Skills

People spend more time listening each day than any other form of communication, yet listening skills are rarely taught. Leaders who develop their listening skills are better positioned to manage today’s diverse, multi-generational workforce.

Design Builder Package

The Listening Skills Design Builder package gives you everything you need to design a solution that improves leaders’ listening skills. The package will include the building blocks necessary to build a solution from scratch. Or, for those who are looking for a starting point, you’ll also receive a starter design that you can apply right away, or customize to best meet your audiences’ needs.

Audience: Intended for use with leaders at all levels.

Pricing:

$600 for individual use

Overview

The background. The Overview report gives you the critical information you need to fully understand the topic. The content is summarized in a simple, easy-to-read report that covers:

Key definitions
Business case for your client’s investment
A summary of the key related research and models
Recommended methods to improve listening skills

Delivery Slides

Professionally designed, completely customizable delivery slides for use in your face-to-face or virtual solution as well as slides to use in your pitch deck or proposal.

Toolkit

The Design Builder Toolkit includes additional components chosen to complement your design. Specifically, the Listening Skills toolkit includes:

Two activities to help leaders practice good listening skills
One activity that demonstrates the impact of poor listening
One activity that demonstrates the importance of good listening
Active Listening Checklist
A list of related third-party tools
A summary of related assessments*
A list of Listening-related quotes for use in your professionally designed presentations

*Additional third-party purchase required

Starter Design

You know your audience, and you’ll want to create a design that best meets their needs. However, it’s always easier to have a starting point. You will also receive a customizable starter design on this topic that includes:

Trainer notes
Presentation slides specific to the starter design
Participant workbook

You can immediately apply this starter design, or incorporate other elements from your Design Builder package to modify the design to best meet your needs.

Sample Materials

The following provides an example of the Listening Skills content. These are a few of the pages included in the Overview report. Materials can be customized to match your branding. My Thinking Partners offers creative services to help you, if needed.