Project Active Listening: Recent Episodes
Rhonda Stroud McCutchen
Active Listening is an essential skill for effective communication. Therefore, there needs to be discussions surrounding how to best achieve this crucial skill. Active Listening allows everyone’s voices to be heard and helps individuals, no matter age, gender, race, geographical location, or physical ability, feel that they matter. Project Active Listening Podcasts always ask the question: What Do You Hear?
In this episode of The Project Active Listening Podcast, Dr. Bobby Gueh and I discuss two key components to a successful conversation: Commitment and Practice! So often we have conversations without being committed to truly listening to what is being said by the speaker, or us in response as the listener, and we don't realize that it takes time and effort to effectively hear what is truly being said due to our individual, and often unrealized, implicit biases. And then we discuss ways to put into practice the commitment of listening to what is being said beyond the act of hearing the words spoken.
On this episode of The Project Active Listening podcast, Dr. Bobby Gueh and I discuss the impact of implicit biases on both the speaker and listener relationship of any type of conversation. As well as how to increase your effectiveness as a listener if you do two (2) things: Commitment and Practice.
Part 1 discusses what active listening is from the perspective of a school counselor. It also addresses the cultural responsiveness needed by teachers to become better listeners for their students of color, particularly black males.
Project Active Listening is a show designed to discuss how being an active listener is an essential skill for effective communication, because we always ask the question: What Do You Hear?