How to Listen Effectively
Advanced Toastmasters practiced advanced listening skills as Toastmaster Tony Kombol spread enlightenment about the whole “April showers bring May flowers” scenario, with some science, some history, and some Old English to boot. The Eyes and Ears team was composed of the following: ah-counter and grammarian, Alicia Hughes, who also offered “insipid” as the word of the day, meaning “uninteresting”; timer, John Bowen. Rei Fuller’s presentation was titled “How to Listen Effectively.” This was from the Success Communication Series, which normally runs 2-3 hours. As this was an advanced club, she was done within 50 minutes time. The workbook for this project was filled out by all audience members in the process of listening to all the information given. Some group exercises were also completed. These were the techniques for better listening that were explained: L— Like to listen I — Ignore distractions S— Summarize T— Tame emotions E...