M.C. CONSULTING

“Quality Communication Consultations”

The Alliance

 

The Three Ws

 

(Effective Listening Skills)

 

1. Who

 

-         High school students

-         High school teachers

-         High school administrations

-         Employers

-         Colleges / Universities

-         Family members and friends

 

2. What

 

-         Program period: One week. 20-30 minute sessions each.

 

Day 1: Introduction: Games (Telephone game), Activities, Getting to know trainers                    and trainees.

            Introduction to the listening process (Business Communication, 133)

 

Day 2: Types of effective Listening: sensing, attending, understanding, remembering,               paraphrasing.

            How to improve listening skills

            Road blocks to effective listening

 

Day 3: Mini Training Workshop

            Putting into action what we learned

            Scenario: Plane crash in the arctic. (Team Work:  listening and decision-                        making)

 

Day 4: External and internal distractions

            The communication model

 

Day 5: Final Training activity workshop

            We pair them up.

            We guide them with discussion questions

            We have them share with each other and how they use their effective listening                skills to communicate.

            Final: We see how they progress on the telephone game.

 

 

3. Where

 

High schools in Illinois or the Chicago land area.