With your active listening skills, you have a high attention span and are not easily distracted. This valuable skill builds trust and establishes rapport among colleagues. Your active listening skills allow you to ask open-ended questions in a useful way to encourage the speaker to continue dialogue.

This is also a high demand soft skill as you are able to retain information that can be applied in the future. Your focus and understanding as well as looking at things from a different perspective allows you to bring change in peoples’ attitudes towards themselves and others.