Last week's feature focused on communication skills and their importance in the workplace. This week's feature is about the other side of communication-listening skills. Hearing is the physical ...

The difference between being one of the best leaders or one of the worst boils down to listening. Here's what managers should ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." How many times have you nodded along during a conversation, only to realize you didn’t absorb a single ...

Question: I have a new employee who joined our team seven months ago. Recently, we visited a client to negotiate a contract. During that meeting, it became painfully obvious that this individual is ...

During three weeks in February and March, Dr. Gary Sweeten, co-author of the book “Listening for Heaven’s Sake,” talked about the importance of relationship skills along with Pastor Charlie McMahan ...

It's a skill to fully listen to one or more people in a conversation. If you want to test how people are listening, ask them to repeat back to you the message or direction you were trying to convey.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Baldoni speaks and writes about candor, courage and community. A vital skill of any good journalist is the ability to ...

Your ears are constantly picking up sounds around you even when you aren’t actively listening. Selective listening is when you focus your attention on some specific information. It involves ...

Popular culture encourages us to believe you’ve either got soft skills, or you’ve not. It also stereotypes those in tech as inept with people and incapable of being otherwise. Ideas like these are ...

One of Dale Carnegie's most challenging principles is "Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about them." Listening is an underutilized business skill. Think about the qualities of good ...