Author: Robert Bacal

Critical listening is a form of listening that is usually not mentioned, since it involves analysis, critical thinking and judgment. Making judgments during listening is often considered as a barrier to understand a person, and there’s a lot of truth…

The University of Colorado website has, in addition to a definition of dialogic listening, a great glossary of listening and communication terms and defintion. It defines dialogic listening as: Dialogic listening is similar to active listening, although it emphasizes conversation…

Relax! It’s normal to have your attention drift when you are listening — even when you are actually trying. Your ability to focus your attention and listen can be developed by practice, and self-awareness, but it’s useful to understand why…

Attempts To Win an Argument Often Backfire and Create Poor Communication You may be familiar with the phrase “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”, taken from the world of physics. The same principle applies to communication,…

Good intentions don’t always make effective communication or better relationships. You might mean well. You want to help. You offer advice to someone without being asked. They get mad. You get mad because the other person isn’t appreciating your effort….

We live in a society that seems to value finding people to blame when things go wrong rather than to identify how to prevent things from going wrong again in the future. So, it’s not surprising that individuals often got…