Five Negative Listening Behaviors Paper

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This memo will identify five positive and five negative listening behaviors.

At work an employee was asked to turn off the lights and close the garage door. During the conversation this employee did not make eye contact and had his body turned away. This showed that he was not listening and did not fully comprehend what was said to him. Upon inspection of what he was asked to do, the employee failed to close the garage door. After confronting him, the task was explained again with eye contact and a more calm demeanor.

In a classroom a student showed positive listening behavior when she paraphrased the instructions that the professor gave about an assignment. The other students showed negative listening behavior because they were packing

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