How can you practice active listening with someone who has a different personality?

Assess your emotional intelligence. Can you recognize and manage your own emotions effectively? Are you empathetic and understanding of others' emotions?

Some ways to dive deeper into understanding yourself: ?? Reflect on your communication style -> Are you naturally more assertive, analytical, or empathetic? ?? Practice mindfulness techniques -> Journaling can also be helpful for self-reflection and more in tune with your emotions and reactions ?? Ask for honest feedback -> Sometimes, external perspectives can be enlightening ?? We learn more by listening, than talking -> Set an intention to be a better listener and stay focused and open during the interaction

Everything starts with knowing thy self. We express our selves in various ways but most of the time we don't listen to ourselves and most of to time we listen to answer and to hear what others are saying. Writing down your own ideas would help you know, understand and help you find your strengths and weaknesses. Also, I find Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) very effective in every situation. It is based on Jung's work and that's a very good rabbit hole if you have time to investigate. If you can't get this training find someone who have had this training and internalize it. It only works if you internalize it.Meaning, adapting it to your everyday life.

Approach the conversation with an open mind. Understand that different personalities bring diverse perspectives and valuable insights. Avoid making quick judgments or assumptions.

One should ask, why am I having this conversation with someone who has a different personality? What's my purpose here? Well, if you can't escape, you have to listen, and listen with the intent of understanding the other person. Not just listening to answer or waiting for your turn to talk. People are full of valuable information, surprises and good anecdotes if you're willing to listen. If you're planning to say something important, you have to wait for your turn without forgetting what you want to say. That's active listening. If you know your personality, and get bored quickly, or not into the conversation, or not working in sales, then be kind and excuse yourself.

Consider how consistent or adaptable your personality is across different situations and with various people. Are you flexible in your interactions, or do you tend to be more fixed in your ways? Find ways to handle other individuals by analyzing your communication style better.

Professionally, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) training would help you to adapt to every situation. In general, you may find that building rapport with the other person helps in a big way. After establishing rapport, you would manage where the conversation goes from there. Remember, a good communicator is at first a good listener.

Emotion regulation refers to various processes where we deliberately increase, decrease, or maintain our own emotional experiences and expressions. ?? It helps with our capacity to self-regulate when it comes to our feelings, thoughts, or actions.

Listening without showing emotions, being neutral, is a key strength of every leader. So that, you would not manipulate the person speaking to you with showing any emotions or sign of approval. Therapists uses this all the time while listening a sad or an embarrassing story, so that the person in front of them would go on talking without feeling judged.

Seek feedback from friends, family, and colleagues. They may offer valuable perspectives on your personality that you hadn't considered.

The best way for active listening as per my view is, to enter a non judgemental state of mind right before the conversation begins. This can be done by clearing all the filters we have in our mind using which we analyse something as good or bad and try to be in this neutral state of mind.This helps us in being so engrossed in the conversations that we can easily understand the situation and/or emotional state of mind of the opposite person which further creates a mutual trust and bond. I practice with all my Clients and this helps me in finding the root causes of many of their stress related issues and helps me in finding a beautiful solution which uplifts them greatly ??

Even when you can practice active listening with someone who has a different personality, you need to understand your own emotions, behavior, and communication style as that indicates how will you manage how will you be with different personalities altogether. You can listen actively only when you know your own emotional behavior by yourself. Find a way to know yourself better today!

Thanks for sharing. Understanding the motivations and values of the other person is in my humble opinion critical, prior to engaging in active listening with that other person.