A Form Of Ineffective Listening

1) When Josh went home during his spring break he wanted to convince his family to support his decision on joining the fraternity. After his second day in town after he ate dinner he brought up the topic to his father. A form of Ineffective Listening that was evident in this communication was monopolizing which is hogging the stage by continually focusing communication of ourselves instead of on the person who is talking (Wood, 2014, p.121). His dad keeps brings the topic back on himself and what was his experiences were in college with a fraternity. His father talks about how when he was in a fraternity his grades dropped and all he did was party all the time. He really does not Josh a chance to voice how he feels on the topic. He was trying to tell his father that this fraternity is not a party house like the one he was in when he went to college.
122). His father was not listening to him when he tried to explain that Sigma Chi is not a party house. His father heard of the word fraternity and he did not want to hear any more of the conversation. Another form of ineffective listening would be defensive listening which perceives a person attack, criticism, or hostile undertone in communication when none is intended (Wood, 2014, p.122). When Josh said the words, “But, Dad, I’m not you,” his father tone went defensive like his son was attacking him (Wood, 2014, p.132). Josh did not mean it in an insulting way he could have said it differently but his father took it the wrong way. Josh was not trying to undermine his father make the accusation that he is smarter than