Throughout the course, the key takeaways that have impacted me would be learning the verbal and non-verbal communications. I believe learning these is the most essential necessity for effective listening. Effective listening can come in many aspects, but the for this post, it would be focused to our group project, effective listening within the family. Effective listening within the family is a very important topic as everyone will definitely face it at some points in their life.
Our group has found out that there are barriers that hinder effective listening within the family and have agreed to this 3 main key points to them. They are; ego, status within the family and failure to understand which was presented in our slides during the presentation day. We feel that these 3 points are the most important keys that hinders effective listening within the family. Firstly, ego works in a way a person's self esteem is more higher importance than listening to others. In a way, when a person were to speak another in a family, their ego would hinder effective listening. Secondly, status within the family is where the money-maker in the family would demand the others in the family to follow his demands. For example, if he/she were to demand the son/daughter to be a nurse, she/he is expected to be a nurse without any obligations. Lastly, failure to understand is where within a family, a person fails to understand or misinterpret what the other party is trying to say. Working on these 3 skills would help to improve effective listening within the family.
Within this project, it has taught me the importance of effective listening within the family. Quite often, these small issues are often neglected as they are seen to be useless or for my case, I am usually not around at home often. With that, i feel that one should adopt or improve these skills at home so as to be a effective listener within the family. I admit that i am always not around at home. Therefore, in the future whenever i have the time to be at home, i will put in a little bit in more effort for effective listening by taking note of the 3 key points listed out by our group and to use understanding of verbal and non-verbal communications.
Finally, i would like to reemphasize that effective listening is a very important topic for everyone, especially within the family as they are the few people that you would see everyday. Regardless if they are around or not, your family are the ones who are always there for you. Thus, i feel that the key takeaways from this project is to not only improve your effective listening for other aspects in life, but within the family as well.
Thank you for the time and effort for reading this blog. With that, i shall end my blog.
Thank you for this reflection, Syai. I appreciate you taking the time and making the effort to think back over the listening aspect of the module and your project to reflect. I also appreciate the effort to summarize the variables that you and your groupmates found to be essential for good listening.
ReplyDeleteI wish you all the best as you continue your learning journey!