With this knowledge, you will be able to develop more effective communication strategies for a variety of environments.

Research shows that people listen with a natural or preferred style.

The Personal Listening Profile listening quiz identifies five approaches to listening.  These approaches are important because they reflect the focus of our listening. These approaches are:

We use a variety of different approaches depending on the situation, but research suggest that each of us tend to use some approaches more than others.  That is, we have a natural Listening Style that is comprised of one or more different Listening Approaches.

The Listening Style that we use determines both the quality of the information that we gather and the reaction of others to our behavior. And although our Listening Style is the one that comes most easily to us, experience tells us that we can adapt our current Listening Approach to the needs of almost any situation with appropriate insight and motivation, thus improving our listening skills.

The Personal Listening profile includes a narrative description of your Listening Style based on your most natural approaches to listening.

The Personal Listening profile provides your own Listening Approaches Graph that illustrates how inclined you are to use each of the five Listening Approaches.

The Personal Listening profile describes your potential strengths and possible growth areas to become more effective in listening.

The Personal Listening profile discusses your expectations of others as listeners.

The Personal Listening profile includes your Communication Gap Analysis, a narrative that highlights situations in which you may be a good communicator and situations in which you may benefit from improvement.

The Personal Listening profile contain a personalized Action Plan which will help you determine positive next steps for developing strategies that work to improve listening skills.

The Personal Listening profile include a detailed overview of each of the five Listening Approaches.

The Personal Listening profile provides a guide to how the Listening Approaches combine to create the 15 unique Listening Styles.