ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <link href="../../slc.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="../../hide.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print"> <title>Basic Scout Leadership Course Materials</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div class="A4page" style=" border-bottom-style:solid; border-right-style:solid; border-bottom-color:#006600; border-right-color:#006600; width:700px; height:1050px; background-color:#FFFFFF "> <div style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0 "><img border="0" src="../../images/speakinglistening.gif"><BR><a href="../speakinglistening.htm">Back to Speaking and Listening Overview</a></div> <h1 align="left" style="margin-left:250px ">Scout Leadership Course Handout</h1> <BR> <h2 align="left" style=" margin-left:250px ">Session area</h2> <p align="left" style=" margin-left:250px ">Speaking and Listening</p> <BR> <h2 align="left" style=" margin-left:250px ">Outline of the session</h2> <h3 align="left" style=" margin-left:250px ">In this session, we learn the key skills of Speaking and Listening. Any leader will tell you how important it is to listen to people around you. Being able to speak clearly and confidently is the best way to pass on information.</h3> <BR><br /><br /> <h2 align="left" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px ">Session Notes</h2> <p align="justify" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px "> </p> <BR> <h2 align="left" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px ">Listening  Its Importance to Leadership</h2> <p align="justify" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px "><br /> Every time I am in a meeting or class and my mind begins to wander, I have to kick myself to get back into the game. Sometimes, I also find myself filtering what is being said and applying my own belief system to what is being communicated. I know these are weaknesses and I perpetually need to work on being open minded so I hear what is being said and more importantly, what is being communicated. It is not easy. But, I know that it is important as a leader to have effective listening skills. Listening is the least practiced of the four communication skills writing, reading, speaking, and listening. During our school years, we learn to read and write. We also may take a communications (speaking) course. But do we ever take a listening course? <br /> <br /> We can't learn when our mouth is flapping. We build trust by learning and to learn we must listen. <br /> <br /> <i>"God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say." </i> &nbsp;&nbsp; -- Source Unknown<br /> <br /> Listening is an attitude, a mindset that dictates whether you are either self-centered or other-centered. If you are self-centered, you are most likely cutting others off, refusing to give feedback, not engaged, and daydreaming among others. If you are other-centered, you are focused on listening, but more importantly you are hearing what is being said and are working intensely to connect the dots the hidden messages, the ones that are not openly communicated yet are there for the taking. <br /> <br /> If you want to improve your listening skills, try this on for size. When another individual is speaking, wait two seconds after they have completed their sentence to make your observations. Think about making a statement that clarifies what they communicate so you fully understand and appreciate what has been said. </p> <br /> <h2 align="left" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px ">Speaking  Its Importance to Leadership</h2> <p align="justify" style=" margin-left:0px; margin-right:250px "><br /> Just how important to you is the ability to speak well in public and communicate effectively? Nearly all great leaders of all time have been great orators, persons able to motivate others, to implement great purposes, incite, achieve, passionately accomplishing their set out PURPOSE. Of course there have been exceptions, such cases always exist, but it is a useful skill, to say the least. In speaking, always strive to have something worthwhile to say. Some people talk a great deal, but never seem to say much. Always try to say it as plainly as possible - make it understandable. </p> </div> <div style="position:absolute; left:560px; top:950px "><img border="0" src="../../images/scout_leadership_badge.gif"></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:490px; top:250px "><img border="0" src="../../images/sessions/speakinglistening.gif" width="200px" height="325px"></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:700px; top:0px "><img border="0" src="../../images/participant_handout_title.gif"></div> <div style="position:absolute; left:720px; top:0px "><img border="0" src="../../images/speakinglistening_title.gif"></div> </body> </html>