Skip to main content
CoursebeginnerFree

Communication and Listening

Coursera

Johns Hopkins instructors cover team collaboration, intercultural awareness, conflict resolution, ethics, and organizational storytelling. Assignments push you to diagnose a communication breakdown and choose a strategy, so listening appears mainly as part of managing conflict and running meetings.

Visit resource

More resources on Active Listening

WebsiteFree

hbr.org

Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.

CoursePaid

Effective Listening

Master active listening with Tatiana Kolovou's course! Enhance communication skills and build stronger relationships.

WebsiteFree

PositivePsychology Active Listening

A practitioner-oriented guide covering the theory behind active listening plus downloadable worksheets, exercises, and question techniques. After working through it you can run structured listening practice with clients, teams, or study partners and evaluate your own responses.

VideoFree

10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee

Radio journalist Celeste Headlee's TED talk drawing on years of interviewing: don't multitask, ask open-ended questions, let go of your own anecdotes, admit ignorance. Applies directly to audience Q&A and on-stage interviews.

VideoFree

How to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure

Sound consultant Julian Treasure's TED talk on conscious listening, presenting five exercises: silence, the mixer, savouring, listening positions, and RASA, for rebuilding attention. It sharpens how you read a room while speaking.

PaperFree

The Power of Listening at Work (Annual Review, 2022)

Peer-reviewed review synthesizing decades of listening research: what high-quality listening is, its measured effects on performance, trust and attitudes, why listeners and speakers fail, and which interventions actually improve listening in organizations.

See all Active Listening resources →