October 15, 2009 Issue:1 Volume:4 Members Copy

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The first JIPC Newsletter was released, simultaneously, on 10th October, 2009.

EMPHATIC COMMUNICATION

In our day-to-day life we employ 4 basic types of communication. They are:

01. Reading, 02. Writing, 03. Speaking and 04. Listening.

We know, we have spent hours/years to learn the first three types of communication ie., Reading, Writing and Speaking. But, how many hours/years we have spent to learn the Art of Listening? And how important is listening? Do we really listen to others?

Generally, we never listen. We never understand what’s going on inside another human being. We always want to project our own autobiography. Hence, we usually ‘listen’ at one of the following 4 levels:

01. We may be ignoring another person, not really listening at all.

02. We may practice pretending “yeah, uh..uh, Right” etc.,

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At Govt. Science College, Hassan by Prof.H.V.Lakshminarayan, Principal, Sri.H.S.Prakash, MLA, Prof.M.S.Hegde, IISC, Bengaluru, Prof.K.Shrihari, Joint Director, Dept. of Collegeate Education, Mysore

and Dr.Shankare Gowda, Co-ordinator, Dept. of PG studies in Chemistry

At GEC-II, Infosys, Mysore by Sri.Sreejith, Faculty trainer &

Prof.A.Narayana Prasad, Convener, JIPC

03. We may practice selective listening, hearing only certain parts of the conversation. 04. We may practice attentive listening, paying attention and focusing energy on the words that are being said.

Instead, of all the above 4 levels, we need the highest form of listening also known as 5th level of listening ie., ‘Emphatic Listening’. In Emphatic Listening – you see the world the way the person to whom you are listening, see the world, you can understand how he/she feels.

While doing so, as is being rightly said by Stephen R Covey, one should know that Empathy is not Sympathy. Sympathy is a form of agreement, a form of judgment. The people who feed on Sympathy become dependent. While in Emphatic Listening, it is not that you agree with some-one, it is that you fully, deeply, understand that person – emotionally as well as intellectually. This gives accurate data. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives & interpretation, you are dealing with the reality inside another person’s head & heart- you are listening to understand.

Emphatic listening takes time, but definitely it doesn’t take as much time required to correct the mistakes or mis-understandings happened due to non-emphatic listening.

“Seeking to understand requires consideration Seeking to be understood takes courage”

-Prof.A.Narayana Prasad.,

narayanprasad_a@yahoo.com

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Activities carried out at JIPC on Sunday 11th October, 2009 between 10.00am & 4.30 pm

Sl.No. Name of the Faculty Topics Covered

01 Prof.Subramanya

Kedilaya.,

# Various forum of Business Organization, # Income Tax. # Opening of DMAT account, # Money Market. # Capital Market, # How to be a wise investor. # Basic Accountancy, # How to draft a Balance Sheet. # Basic Concepts of Gift Tax & Wealth Tax.

GRE & TOEFL EXAMS

For getting into the Universities of USA for higher studies you have to pass GRE & TOEFL exams, which are conducted by ETS(Educational Testing Service).

GRE – Graduate Record Examination – The syllabus covers class X level maths and has a fixed list of word meanings to be mastered for the verbal section. Apart from this basic syllabus, the key to doing well in the GRE is doing as many practice tests as you can.

In order to prepare for the TOEFL, access the materials on the ETS website. The duration for preparation depends on how your English grammar is.

Log on to www.ets.org and read up on the GRE & TOEFL exams.

BELIEVE WHERE OTHERS DOUBT, WORK WHERE OTHERS REFUSE, SAVE WHERE OTHERS WASTE.

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Chief Editor: Prof.H.V.Lakshminarayan Editor : Prof.A.Narayana Prasad., narayanprasad_a@yahoo.com Student Editor : Arun.D.C, Final PMCs

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