Active Listening Techniques, Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW
Active Listening Techniques, Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW
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Active Listening Techniques
30 Practical Tools to Hone Your Communication Skills

Author: Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW

Narrator: Allyson Ryan

Unabridged: 3 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

To listen actively is to listen with complete attention and an engaged mind and body. And, while it may come naturally to some, it's also a skill that can be honed through practice. Active Listening Techniques will help you do just that, so you can ensure the people around you feel respected, understood, and heard.

Through thirty practical communication tools, you'll acquire the skills you need to better get your message across, allowing you to cultivate healthier personal relationships, achieve greater career success, and more.

This guide to listening skills for adults helps you:

● Learn the basics—Discover the importance of paraphrasing, nonverbal cues, emotional labeling, mirroring, validation, and other fundamental techniques.

● Put your skills to use—Each communication tool includes an illustrative anecdote, as well as digestible strategies to help you apply the concept to your everyday life.

● Manage conflict—Learn how invaluable being an active listener is when it comes to navigating difficult or emotionally charged situations.

Learn how to develop stronger connections through these simple and effective listening exercises.

About Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW

Nixaly Leonardo, LCSW, was born and raised in New York City by immigrant parents, along with her older brother and younger sister. She is a wife and a mother of two. She is a licensed clinical social worker and CBT therapist. She has over ten years of experience helping clients with anger management, depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, parenting, and interpersonal problems. She's written books about communication skills and anger management, and plans to write many more in order to help as many people as possible.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on May 25, 2024

"Active Listening Techniques: 30 Practical Tools to Hone Your Communication Skills" by Nixaly Leonardo serves as a concise and highly practical guide for anyone looking to improve their interpersonal communication. Leonardo's book is compact yet brimming with actionable advice that can be quickly un......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 10, 2023

"Active Listening Techniques: 30 Practical Tools" is a book by Nixali Leonardo that provides a comprehensive and practical guide to developing effective listening skills. The book offers a step-by-step framework for improving listening skills, and provides numerous real-world examples and case studi......more

Goodreads review by Nate on December 13, 2022

Active Listening Techniques is short, sweet, and to the point. The book combined practical rules with a particularly illustrative parable of how they're used. Honestly, one of the better books that I've read in the self-help category. One of my particularly favorite concepts was the idea of reflexiv......more

Goodreads review by Erina on May 07, 2024

This is more like a workbook, after a few notes on theory at the beginning, the book offers tools to master different active listening techniques. They all follow the same pattern: there is a story, that illustrates the example, then some pointers on how to handle the situation; and a few exercises......more

Goodreads review by Gwynneth on April 26, 2025

Again, since I've gone through this book so long ago, I can only really remember that it was a simple enough read with straightforward ideas of active listening. Nothing monumentally different in its approach that truly stuck with me, but it must have offered strong grounding for my day-to-day life......more