Personal Listening Profile

What is the Personal Listening Profile?
This profile helps individuals to identify their preferred listening style and demonstrates how they can adopt other approaches when appropriate. This profile is designed to help people accept their interpersonal differences and assume behavioral strategies that foster considerate, collaborative, and effective relationships.

What are the benefits of completing the Personal Listening Profile?
Organizations have always known that success depends on people communicating effectively, contributing not only to the bottom line but to a positive performance environment. Successful organizations also know that good communication is not just about speaking well. It's about the quality of the connection between the senders and the receivers of the message. The strongest influence on the quality and outcome of all communications is the ability to listen effectively. Only by listening effectively can you respond appropriately. The Personal Listening Profile helps individuals understand how to listen more effectively in a variety of situations. It is useful in many applications, including customer service, presentation skills, conflict resolution, and team building.

What does the Personal Listening Profile provide?
✓      Personal insight into communication preferences
✓      Effective information processing
✓      Understanding of diversity in communication styles
✓      Dialogue about communication
✓      Relations to other communication styles
✓      Reduction in conflict
✓      Stronger customer relationships

What is involved in completing a Personal Listening Profile?
The Listening Profile is administered as an electronic questionnaire, with 70 questions. Each question is phrased as an example of a listening behavior and provides a range of possible responses from “sounds like me” to “does not sound like me”.
It takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.