Deeper Listening

Deeper Listening

Course Description

Listening well is the most valued communication skill in relationships, organizations and business – even if most people don’t realize it or practice it well. It also happens to be a mission-critical aspect for improvisational comedy troupes to be successful. Utilizing and drawing from the deep exploration of listening, and fully listening, in our improv has led to one of our most engaging workshop topics — Deeper Listening.

In Deeper Listening, we will explore the multiple dimensions of listening well — which goes well beyond making note of words spoken by your communication partner. Results you can expect are greater awareness of non-verbal communications, increased ability to show value and interest in the person being listened to, heightened abilities to leverage the value of communication received, and so much more. This is a life-skill and business skill workshop that has the ability and likelihood to have profound impacts on the attendees.

Course Length Options

Our Deeper Listening materials can be presented as a series of three or four modules over time, or presented in full in a full-day workshop. We will happily provide you with greater depth on how we might best implement this material in your context, but with the assumption that this is your first experience with this course you may want to consider the course length options as providing increasing depth and skill development. For instance, an initial 90 minute Intergenerational Communications workshop will be more focused on framing the issue than on skill development to navigate the issues presented. We always seek to provide actionable take-aways in our workshops, but will not be able to build competencies in this area at the same depth as a half or full day workshop will allow.

Another way to view our course length options is to view them on a continuum. Most of our courses are designed to move from Awareness to Competency to Mastery. The 2-hour to half-day workshops will provide increasing depth of Competency with the full day workshop designed to provide very strong skills (Mastery) in the subject matter. That said, the skillset obtained in a full day program can be supplemented and re-enforced with follow-up experiences.

90 Minutes

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps

2 Hours

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues

3 Hours

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items

Half Day

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items
  • Small Group Exercises

Full Day

  • Exercises
  • Debrief
  • Next Steps
  • Localize Issues
  • Action Items
  • Small Group Exercises
  • Small Group Projects
  • Accountability Plan

Group Size Options

Small Group

5 - 20 Participants

Small Group

Deeper Listening workshops can work quite well in a small group setting for almost any audience of participants.

Mid-Size Group

Groups of 25 - 100

Mid-Size Groups

Groups of 25 – 100 work well for Deeper Listening courses. Insights often vary from those in smaller groups, but can be equally impactful and meaningful.

Large Groups

Groups of 100 - 250

Large Groups

Large groups can also work well for Deeper Listening workshops — although generally best to limit sessions to not more than 2 hours.

Conferences

Groups of 250 +

Conferences

Although a full day course may not work as well for especially large groups for this course, Deeper Listening can be impactful for large groups.

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