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After viewing the TED talk, by Lucianne Walkowicz titled, "Let's not use Mars as a back up planet,"
create 5-7 questions that you could ask the presenter.

After viewing the rest of this week's videos and reading the article from Fast Company, post responses to the following questions:

On a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the most effective, rate your listening ability. Why did you give yourself that rating?

Application for our own interactions. What strategies do you feel you already use effectively? What strategies do you need to use more of? Do your listening skills fit in to the communication style you were identified as having?How is your balance of listening versus telling?

Share an experience this week you had trying to be a better listener. What strategies did you try? Did you feel that they worked? Was it hard to flex to a different style?

links below:
"How to be a better listener"from the NY TimesLinks to an external site.
"Three ways to nail what Sir Richard Branson cites as his top leadership soft skill' from Forbes

The second video is a short clip from the sitcom, Everyone Loves Raymond. The video is under 3 minutes and provides a comical yet accurate reflection of the challenges of being an active listener: http://bit.ly/1lHO8vELinks to an external site.

3. The third video is a TED talk by Julian Treasure, titled, "5 Ways to Listen Better." This video is 7:50 in length and shares Julian's strategies for what he calls "conscious listening." Julian believes we need to be conscious listeners to be fully living. He recommends an acronym called RASA to help us be more conscious when listening. The letters stand for - receive, appreciate, summarize, and ask: http://bit.ly/1m3CkoaLinks to an external site.

4. The fourth and final video is from the sitcom, Big Bang Theory and provides another humorous look at how hard listening is when we have our own information to share. The video is under 3 minutes in length and may remind you of some of your own conversations: http://bit.ly/1ybrmpVLinks to an external site.

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The solution provides information, assistance and advice in tackling the task (see above) on the topic of interpersonal communication styles on listening. The task involves listening to Lucianne Walkowicz's Ted Talk, 'Let's not use Mars as a backup Planet' and putting together a discussion and completing a set of questions related to it. Resources are listed for further exploration of the topic. A word version and a pdf is attached.

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Dear Student,
Hi and thank you for using BrainMass. The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are asking for help in putting together a discussion on the topic of interpersonal communication. This task is a multiple task asking you to listen and create. I suggest this simple outline:
1. About the Ted Talk - 100 words
2. 7 Questions - 200 words
3. Listening Ability - 100 words
4. Listening skill used, strategies, style, balance of telling/listening - 100 words
5. Experience of better listening, style used, challenges - 100 words
6. Resources
This should give you 600 to 700 words which should cover what you need. You can use the listed resources to further explore the topic. Just let me know via the feedback section if you need further clarification. All the best with your studies.

Sincerely,
AE 105878/Xenia Jones

Active Listening Exercise
In Lucian Walkowicz's Ted Talk (Walkowicz 2015), the astronomer talks about her observations and ruminations about the activities of the NASA's Kepler mission - the search for places in the universe that could support life. Being part of the Kepler mission, she is well versed on the subject, bringing up Kepler's data findings which indicate that there are thousands of potential planets in other star systems, outside of our own solar system. The Earth being just among the many billions in our galaxy, she highlights our planet's uniqueness - ...

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