Active listening is a skill you can develop by being fully present in the conversation. You can do this by using attentive body language, asking open-ended questions, and reflecting back.

In Radical Listening, Drs. Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener advocate for moving beyond “active listening” to align with what the speaker truly needs. A new manager feeling ...

A new study reveals that while high-quality, nonjudgmental listening improves how people feel about a conversation—reducing defensiveness and enhancing perceptions of the listener—it does not make ...

While each is important in its own right, the skills are intricately interrelated: the potential effect of a good question is only fully realized if accompanied by active listening, which in turn is ...