Habit # 5

Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.

1. Understand

To grasp the meaning of

2. Communicate

To reveal by clear signs

3. Valued

Highly regarded or

esteemed

4. Genuine

Free from hypocrisy or pretense

5. Judging

To form an opinion about through careful weighing of

evidence and testing of premises

6. Caring

To feel interest or concern

7. Confidence

Faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or

effective way

8. Listen

To pay attention to sound

9. Spacing Out

Mind drifts off

10. Pretend Listening

Act of concern to what is being said, while thinking of

something else

11. Selective listening

Hearing only certain parts

12. Word Listening

Keying on particular words

13. Self-centered Listening

Hearing only things that deal with only you

14. Advising

To give information or notice to

15. Probing

To search into and explore very thoroughly

16. Feedback

The partial reversion of the effects of a process to

its source or to a preceding stage

17. Mirroring

To reflect in or as if in a mirror

18. Mimicking

To imitate closely

19. Interpret

To explain or tell the meaning of

20. Mature

Having completed natural growth and development