Identify and briefly explain the four listening styles

What will be an ideal response?


People oriented listeners prefer to focus on emotions and feelings communicated either
verbally or nonverbally by others. Action oriented listeners prefer messages to be
communicated in a well organized, brief, and error free manner, They want to get to
the point and may be more skeptical, second guessing the assumptions underlying a
message. Content oriented listeners are comfortable with complex and detailed
information and are likely to see a message without facts and evidence as being less
important. Time oriented listeners like brief, short messages.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Fisher used interaction analysis to discover four phases in decision making by groups, which he called

A. orientation, evaluation, decision, and confirmation. B. orientation, conflict, decision emergence, and reinforcement. C. formation, orientation, evaluating, emergence. D. formation, development, evaluating, and decision emergence. E. initiation, information, conflict, and reinforcement.

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If presentation technology is allowed to dominate a speech, it can divert attention from the speaker's message.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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It is perfectly acceptable to have an assistant help you with presentation aids during your speech

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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