Active Listening in Business
Active listening in a business context extends the improv principle of listening to understand rather than to respond. Applied improvisation exercises train participants to hear the full content of what colleagues are saying, attend to nonverbal signals, and resist the impulse to formulate responses before a speaker has finished.
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