Careful listening skills include:

refraining from interrupting the speaker

taking quality notes

making an effort to understand

maintaining eye contact with the speaker

Yes, careful listening skills include all these points mentioned apart from these some are given as under.

Explanation:

For the process of effective and efficient listening, the receiving party must be calm or cool from his/her end and will to understand and listen, after which e process of communication should start. Once started both parties should try to think, plan and then say what they feel they want to explain or show. After which the goal of the communication should be achieved by putting away any barrier to the listening process like that distraction on mobile phones, the distraction caused by hot/cold environments and other distractions in the surrounding, etc. After this one should give and take time to understand what was meant while keeping the eye to eye contact to show his/her confidence level. The communication should not be so fast that the other part cannot understand. Note making is a good exercise for effective communication and is an important listening skill.

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