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May
20
Impact of Technology on Listening
Leslie Ramos Salazar, Ph.D. Director (Academia), Global Listening Centre. Associate and Abdullat Professor of Business Com-munication and Decision Management at West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas, USA. The COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic impacted how we communicate with others, and as a result how we listen to one another. Face-to-face communication is often avoided, especially [...]
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Oct
09
Listening to Each Other in a Challenging World
Around the world, the polarization and radicalization of groups who have lost faith in their fellow humans is increasing. We are seeing a troubling rise in generalizations and manipulative propaganda that encourage dehumanization of our fellow human family members. Stuck in our silos and connecting primarily through technology during COVID-19, we have diminished opportunities for [...]
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Oct
09
Listening as Basic to Serving (Listening Seva, Part 2)
Challenges: feed the hungry, respond to crises and disasters, deal with recessions. Listen. In a previous article, “Listening as Service”, we have explored how we can serve others through safe, effective and compassionate listening: “Listening is built around and is supported by the other essential human behaviors: trust, care, curiosity, reason, and patience.” That article [...]
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Oct
09
Using the “P-A-C-T”: How Understanding the Preferred Listening Styles of Others Can Enhance Communication During the Global Pandemic
Overview Our interpersonal exchanges with others, even in the best of times, are typically dynamic and unpredictable. Regardless of whether it’s a professional, personal, or impersonal relationship, discerning how to accurately interpret meaning is sometimes a challenge. Perhaps you may have a conflict with a colleague who has ridiculed a family photo on your desk, [...]
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Oct
09
Listening and Mental Health
Decades from now, 2020 will be remembered as the year when much of life stood still. As we struggled under the weight of a worldwide COVID-19 crisis, and the related economic and social consequences that accompanied it, a second pandemic took shape: a mental health pandemic. It is this second challenge to our collective health [...]
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Aug
16
Seeking a “Listening Method”: A Brief Overview of Interdisciplinary Approaches
In this article, we summarize and synthesize the approaches to a coined “listening method” that has been proposed by researchers across diverse disciplines (e.g., psychology, communication, sound studies, ethnography, etc.) to date. In an extensive scholarly literature search through multiple digital libraries and databases, only 13 references to a named listening method were found, beginning in 1936 and with a marked increase in references since 2016.
Nomination Form
Download the Form Attach Documentation Applicable Links Letter of nomination Accompanying evidence of the nominee’s global listening impact (i.e., publication, media, testimony from others). Each person can nominate only two Major areas of nominations: Major areas of nominees include listening research and promotion, healthcare listening, academics, politics, environmental, humanitarian work, law, journalism- having high integrity [...]
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Dec
15
“If They Would Only Listen”: Racism as Exemplified in Policing
What are the qualities of listening that are relevant to the discussion of racism? And what is the legacy of racism in American society? This paper explores these issues based on principles from social psychology to explain how racist biases impede empathy and understanding. The starting points are an overview of listening in the context [...]
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Dec
15
Listening: The First Response to Racism
Prejudice against a person’s race is not confined to one country or culture, nor is it a new phenomenon. But this spring’s agonizing death of George Floyd, witnessed by the world via video, at the hands (and knees) of police, resulted in a world-wide firestorm of protest and violence. New York Times columnist David Brooks, [...]
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Nov
06
Appointment of First President
The Global Listening Centre (GLC), a unique global philanthropy with a specific vocation to promote learning, research, and service on behalf of the noble cause of listening around the world, is pleased to announce, on the occasion of its 6th year anniversary, the appointment of its first President (Academia), Prof Dr Amb Colette Mazzucelli. A respected educator, Dr. [...]
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