Do you consider yourself a good listener? What makes a person a good listener?

I can do both, I listen while doing something. I think it is a skill. Others will find it difficult. I admit, it will take time to acquire these skills.

A good listener is so sincere person. You need to support the person who is in misery. That's what I think for a good listener.

I apply this mostly in my work life, since I am a solution support engineer. I have to fist understand what exactly required from my client and how this could turn my understanding to solution. I would say, my need makes me a good listener and my KPI is to give quick solutions as fast phase.

I'd like to think that I am a good listener. During my high school days, I would always be the chosen friend to talk to whenever my friends would like someone to talk to. They said that they feel enlightened after talking to me. I'd also like to think I have a lot of words of wisdom to share with them. And I just fel bad not being able to help them in any way possible.

I personally consider myself as both listener and a speaker. One sign that a person is a good listener is that he prefers to hear everything and analyze what he heard before making any spoken comment.

Sometimes, people just want a listening post. Sometimes, I have told my husband that he can vent or share with me. I am a listening post but I am not going to hearing every single word he says. Sometimes, people just need to get out what is bothering them and once they get it out, then they can blow it away. I have learned to listen and then to blow it away and not let other people venting to bother me.