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Listening Styles and How Using Them Effectively Helps You to Engage an Executive

IN UNDERSTANDING THE listening styles of individuals, including your sponsor, we have to first go back to the basics of communication itself.

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Figure 7.1: Common Elements for All Communications

As Figure 7.1 shows, the most common process for communication to occur involves encoding and decoding. A speaker encodes an idea or information using the language that is common to both people. This communication can be in oral or written form. The listener then decodes the ...

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