The Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a series of seven listening sessions for the Across the Committee on The Impact ...

The film "Many Hear, Some Listen" explores the complexities of listening and communication through various character archetypes: Joe, the non-attender; Helen, the assumer; and Maurice, the word picker ...

Recently, while leading an executive workshop, I provided the participants with a list of 10 communication skills. For each of the skills, I asked participants to rate their personal skill level and ...

In our everyday life, we continually verbally and non-verbally interact with those in our surroundings both in our personal and professional lives. We do this by means of encoding and decoding ...

To become an effective communicator, you need to learn to listen just as much as you need to learn to speak. Unfortunately, most people focus more on the speaking than they do on the listening.