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title: How good are your listening skills?
description: What causes you to stop listening? This document outlines the twelve main distractions of effective listening.
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# How good are your listening skills?

### A really useful document for anyone who ever listens...

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"A more detailed version of this document is often used in our seminars. This summary outlines the twelve main distractions of effective listening. Take a look and assess how good your listening skills are."

**Scott Levey**

 

This document is for you, if:

- you sometimes find yourself in a conversation not completely concentrating on what the other person is saying
- you want to know what not to do to be an effective listener
- you want to identify why someone you know is such a bad listener