Types of Listening Skills

• Active Listening: Listening in a way that demonstrates interest and encourages continued speaking.
• Appreciative Listening: Looking for ways to accept and appreciate the other person through what they say.
• Comprehension Listening: Listening to understand.
• Critical Listening: Listening in order to evaluate, criticize or otherwise pass judgment on what someone else says.
• Discriminative Listening: Listening for something specific but nothing else.
• False Listening: Pretending to listen but actually spending more time thinking.
• Full Listening: Listening to understand.
• Informative Listening: The listener's primary concern is to understand the message.
• Relationship Listening: Listening in order to support and develop a relationship with the other person.
• Total Listening: Paying very close attention in active listening to what is said and the deeper meaning found through how it is said.