How does Poor listening affect relationships

When a person is talking, He wants that the other person give attention to him and also gives the signals that he is interested in conversation

Poor listening is not a good thing it gives a bad image about a person. Many people have this bad habit in their life, that they are poor listeners. This negative trait affects conversation and relationship, as if you don’t pay attention to speaker.

Listening is a Skill

It makes people to understand what speaker is speaking about. Hearing is just a physical ability, but listening is understanding and gaining information.

It can also make strong bond between speaker and listener. By having listening skills, listener can easily understand about the meaning behind words.

Effects of Poor listening

If a person is not giving attention to speaker that what is he talk about then he doesn’t get the point, what the other is trying to give. This may lead to problem. Any relationship is based on understanding.

If poor listening trait affect your communication or conversation then at the end your relationship affect badly.

By this listener gives bad or negative impression that he is not taking interest in listening, which may also give bad impacts to his social status or social relationship.

Sometimes poor listeners also stop or interrupt the speaker or people talking to him, it makes the people feel less valued as their communication have no importance.

Example of Effects of Poor listening

Now a days where mobile phones are seems to be more important than people. Many times it have been seen that a person is talking and the other just hearing but not listening. His focus is on mobile phone and not giving attention to him

How to Improve Poor listening

In my opinion listener have to be open-minded, that he can absorbs all information or message and also give time to speaker to speak, what he wants to say and listen to him properly and quite patiently.

This may give confidence to him and the topic or issue in the conversation is briefly explain and both will understand it easily

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