Hearing Loss Can Cause the Wrong Impression on the Job

It is extremely important to any business to maintain good customer relations.  This includes how you listen to people and respond to situations and conversations.  Team projects at work are an important business method to improve customer service, sales and profit.  Coworkers are expected to work together efficiently, with an emphasis on everyone on the team pulling their own weight on projects.  Undiagnosed hearing loss can have a dramatic effect on your interaction with your coworkers and customers.

It does not take a major incident for your coworkers to feel that you are not participating on team projects. It may not even be the fourth or fifth project that you pass off to a coworker that can cause feelings of resentment and dislike.  You can be sure continued lack of participation in team work, whether in team building exercises or group projects with deadlines, will eventually affect your relationship with your coworkers.  They may not recognize, or understand, that you are suffering from hearing loss and are not able to hear clearly.  

A sense of pride may prevent you from admitting to your coworkers and supervisors that you are simply unable to hear the project instructions clearly.  You may not even recognize or understand your own hearing loss.  Not being able to clearly understand projects parameters or instructions will certainly prevent you from participating effectively with your coworkers.  This lack of participation and withdrawal from coworker interactions can also extend to a withdrawal from customers and supervisors, detrimentally affecting all of your business relationships.

The early recognition and diagnosis of hearing loss in one or both ears, and the effective use of hearing aids, can alleviate many of the problems caused in the workplace by hearing loss.  Once you have been tested and prescribed hearing aids, their consistent use can allow you to clearly understand your assigned tasks and effectively interact with your coworkers and customers.  Effective customer service is based on the ability to listen to the problem and think of a solution.  Hearing aids can allow you to hear clearly again, making you able and willing to listen and having a vast improvement on all your business relationships.

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