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Listening: The Forgotten Skill: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides)

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This book is written mainly for the business audience, but all the principles are applicable to every situation. The author is very good at explaining scenarios and solutions. Other authors spend the bulk of their time explaining why we need to listen, but Burley-Allen spends the bulk of her time explaining how to listen. That alone places this book on a more productive plane than most books on this topic. You'll be impressed with how things change in your inter-personal communication at work and at home with the adoption of even a few principles from this book.

I strongly recommend this book for just about everyone. I believe that most of us have huge room for improvement in the area of listening ( if you don't agree, the author will probably convince you of this). The book provides information on typical listening styles, why most of us listen the way we do, and methods for improving your skills. Unlike some other books which confine themselves to the detrimental effects of not listening properly, this one gives you plenty of practical guidance on things you can do to enhance your abilities in this most difficult of communication skills.

I just recently read this book, and was amazed at what I needed to learn, for professional and personal reasons. This book shows you areas where people, businesses and organizations are lacking in communication skills due to the fact that we don't listen and we are not being heard. In this book, the Author Madelyn Burley-Allen, with her years of research and teaching on this subject, she gives you ways of improving your listening communication skills as well as how to speak effectively so that you are listened to. This book provides vital solutions for improving your listening and communication skills. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. It is very informative and helpful and will continuely be a source of information in the future.

I strongly recommend this book. To be quite honest I just fell in love with this book, it tought me things that I never knew about myself.

I've heard all this time and never really took the time to listen.Now, I understand what listening is and how it helped me enchance my abilities to communicate better and better. Everyone should read this book, great asset.

I have met Ms.Madelyn Burley-Allen and she is quite a charming lady. You learn when she speaks.

This review is for the audiobook - although the content is good, the author should have gotten a professional speaker to do the narration. It is so ironic to be unable to LISTEN to a book about listening because the author munches her words, chokes off a few, stops and starts here and there, and flips her pages over so loudly that it is distracting.

I find myself focusing on her bad delivery as opposed to her good content. If you're going to get this book, make it a printed one!

No academic cloudy language. Madelyn writes with perfect clarity, organizes her material usefully, and knows what she is talking about. The exercises are excellent. I use this book in my seminars and workshops on listening for business and government people. I give it my highest recommendation, and have no ties whatsoever to the author or publisher. Enjoy!

With this exciting new Millenieum upon us, most all of us have had classes, lectures, and read books on expressing ourselves more effectively, public speaking and the list goes on. The problem now is "No One is Listening." Madelyn Burley-Allen's book Listening the Forgotten Skill is the perfect tool for helping us get back to the true meaning of listening. What good is all of this teaching, until you are taught how to listen. With this book you are taught how to communicate effectively and listen effectively as well. This is an excellent book for improving your lifestyle through listening.

The audio version of this book must be a joke. The author had to have either been drunk or on some heavy pain killers. I found myself thinking, again and again, "did she just cut the last syllable off of that word, again?" "What did she just say?" "Is she for real?"

The content was great but there is no excuse for the poor, lazy, possibly narcotics-induced rambling of the author in this audio version. Really, you should listen to it, you will not believe it!

This tape is the dullest, most uninspired slop I have ever heard. The author takes a subject that has been neglected for a long time, and instead of turning it into a learning experience, turns it into a endurance test.

I was very disappointed with this DVD. The author is the speaker. She should not be. Her voice was difficult to listen to for many reason. First she frequently sounded out of breath, like it was very hard for her to read. Also, there was a lot of background noise. Lastly at times she mumbled and her pronunciation of certain words was incorrect. I have listened to many non-fiction books on tape. I usually play them numerous times. This is the first time I did not finish one. The author needs to take her own advice and listen...listen to her own CD. If she did, then she would know, it is worth the cost for her to hire someone else to read!