Nonprofit Sushi

Welcome to Nonprofit Sushi! At Nonprofit Sushi you can find perspective, opinions and advice on issues affecting the nonprofit sector and careers…in the RAW!

Click here to read an introduction to Nonprofit Sushi from it’s main contributor: Chelle Shell:

Who Wants to Listen?

By Chelle Shell

Instead of listing out a multitude of unattainable New Year’s Resolutions I’ve decided there is one thing we can do that would benefit us all. We can be better listeners! This, for me, is not going to be any easy task.

Communication, by definition, is a process in which you convey a message. If the message is carried clearly and precisely by the sender, and the receiver clearly understands the message being sent then it becomes successful and effective communication. Social psychologists believe there is 50% to 70% loss of meaning while conveying the messages from a sender to a receiver and much of this is due to ineffective listening.

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