During a conversation with an acquaintance, deliberately attend and listen more carefully than you usually do. Maintain appropriate eye contact with an open, attentive posture. Use a supportive vocal...

During a conversation with an acquaintance, deliberately attend and listen more carefully than you usually do. Maintain appropriate eye contact with an open, attentive posture. Use a supportive vocal tone, and focus carefully on what the other person is saying. Observe what happens and how conversations can change if you really seek to listen.

You may wish to contrast deliberate attending with nonattending. What happens when your eye contact wanders, your vocal tone shows disinterest, your body becomes more rigid, or you constantly change the topic? What did you learn from this experience? Follow this up by sitting back at a meeting, at a party, or during a general social conversation in someone’s living room. Who attends most effectively? What is the person who gives lesser attention doing? Where does the eye contact of the group flow? Consider other aspects of the 3 V’s 1 B in your observations