Is Anyone Listening?
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Copyright: 2025
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How well we communicate helps define our ability to connect with others, achieve our goals and live lives of fulfillment. The key and most unappreciated and unsung element of communicating well is listening. Effective listening is the backbone of our ability to communicate and, ultimately, gain and maintain a lasting sense of self. When it comes to connecting with others, poor listening is little more than weak brushes with others. Active listening transforms those brushes into encounters of meaning, thus giving our individual growth more depth and definition.
Sadly, a growing trend in much of society today is that listening well is not given the level of importance it needs and deserves. Consequently, in the arena of communication, there is far more talking at than talking with. This growing reality has an increasing negative impact on human interaction, relationships, and individual betterment.
In an effort to enhance overall communication, this book shines the spotlight on the act of listening. Such focus is overdue. In it, listening trends and research are explored and recommendations are put forth to help raise greater awareness on the importance and value of positive listening. Good listening benefits all parties involved in all encounters.
There are two actions that all humans do every moment of their days: breath and communicate. Whether they are alone or with others, people of all backgrounds, ages or sexes do not do one without the other. As a communication scholar, author and practitioner, as he has done one, Dr. Walsch has also followed a professional path studying the other. “Is Anyone Listening?” represents the latest effort on his part to dissect what he views as the backbone of all attempts to communicate effectively and well.
Dr. Walsch is a former journalist who gravitated from several years as a newspaper reporter to a successful career in higher education. In that arena, his focus has been on public relations and communication. Among the roles he has filled in his over 40 years at two and four-year institutions of higher learning are administrator, professor, speech writer and student. Among the over dozen books he has written are Organizational Spokesmanship, Media Relations in the 21st Century, What’s the Story? (co-author Beth Jannery), and Communication Wars. His most recent book, Walking for Me, is his autobiography. Dr. Walsch earned his PhD in communication at George Mason University and is an accredited public relations practitioner as recognized by the Public Relations Society of America.
With his wife, Jo, he currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia.
How well we communicate helps define our ability to connect with others, achieve our goals and live lives of fulfillment. The key and most unappreciated and unsung element of communicating well is listening. Effective listening is the backbone of our ability to communicate and, ultimately, gain and maintain a lasting sense of self. When it comes to connecting with others, poor listening is little more than weak brushes with others. Active listening transforms those brushes into encounters of meaning, thus giving our individual growth more depth and definition.
Sadly, a growing trend in much of society today is that listening well is not given the level of importance it needs and deserves. Consequently, in the arena of communication, there is far more talking at than talking with. This growing reality has an increasing negative impact on human interaction, relationships, and individual betterment.
In an effort to enhance overall communication, this book shines the spotlight on the act of listening. Such focus is overdue. In it, listening trends and research are explored and recommendations are put forth to help raise greater awareness on the importance and value of positive listening. Good listening benefits all parties involved in all encounters.
There are two actions that all humans do every moment of their days: breath and communicate. Whether they are alone or with others, people of all backgrounds, ages or sexes do not do one without the other. As a communication scholar, author and practitioner, as he has done one, Dr. Walsch has also followed a professional path studying the other. “Is Anyone Listening?” represents the latest effort on his part to dissect what he views as the backbone of all attempts to communicate effectively and well.
Dr. Walsch is a former journalist who gravitated from several years as a newspaper reporter to a successful career in higher education. In that arena, his focus has been on public relations and communication. Among the roles he has filled in his over 40 years at two and four-year institutions of higher learning are administrator, professor, speech writer and student. Among the over dozen books he has written are Organizational Spokesmanship, Media Relations in the 21st Century, What’s the Story? (co-author Beth Jannery), and Communication Wars. His most recent book, Walking for Me, is his autobiography. Dr. Walsch earned his PhD in communication at George Mason University and is an accredited public relations practitioner as recognized by the Public Relations Society of America.
With his wife, Jo, he currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia.