Communication
Active Listening
Stop Hearing. Start Listening.
12 lessons4 modules9h 0m durationbeginner level
About this course
Most professionals hear but rarely listen — they plan their reply while the other person is still talking, miss emotional cues, and confuse acknowledgment with understanding. Active Listening gives you a structured, research-grounded framework drawn from Carl Rogers' person-centred therapy, motivational interviewing, and neuroscience of attention. Across four modules you will practise attentive presence, diagnostic questioning, paraphrasing, and the handling of difficult conversations — skills that directly reduce rework, improve team cohesion, and increase client retention.
Curriculum
Module 1: The Anatomy of Real Listening
- Why Smart People Are Often Poor ListenersPreview
- The Three-Layer Listening Model🔒
- Attention as a Skill: Training Your Focus🔒
Module 2: The Art of Asking Powerful Questions
- The Question Hierarchy: From Closed to Transformational🔒
- Socratic Probing Without Interrogating🔒
- Calibrating Questions to Context🔒
Module 3: Reflecting, Paraphrasing, and Summarising
- Paraphrasing: The Accuracy Test🔒
- Emotional Reflection: Naming What You Hear🔒
- Summarising to Create Shared Understanding🔒
Module 4: Listening in Difficult Conversations
- Your Listening Biases: What Distorts What You Hear🔒
- Listening in Conflict and Under Emotional Pressure🔒
- Building a Listening Practice: Systems for Sustained Improvement🔒
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