How to Make People Understand You Better?

Is this even possible?

Raise your right hand if you have experienced having conflicts because you couldn’t get along with others? ✋

Raise your right hand if you have experienced frustrations because no matter how you explain things, people can’t seem to understand you? ✋

We tend to be very frustrated when people don’t understand us.

Have you asked yourself this question: “Why people don’t understand me?”

I have also asked myself that question.

One day, I attended a conference in Hong Kong and had the opportunity for a mentoring session.

I learned that one of the reason why I can’t get along with others and why people don’t understand me is that I don’t know the different types of personalities.

He told me that once I learned the different types of personalities, I would dramatically improve the way I deal with different types of people.

I was so excited what he has to share with me.

When I learned it, it blew my mind 🤯

And true enough, after learning it, it changed the way I interacted with people. I have avoided a lot of conflicts and misunderstandings.

I am going to share this with you and here it is:

Different Types of Personalities

Below is the very brief explanation of the different types:

LEADER - these people tend to get things done, love to be the first and usually don’t care about emotions 💪 Opposite to Nurturer.

THINKER - these people tend to calculate, analyse, love to be always right and usually kinda boring 🤓 Opposite to Promoter

NURTURER - these people tend to be kind, more emotional, they put others first 🙏 Opposite to Leader

PROMOTER - these people love more fun, travels, events, they don’t want anything boring 🥳 Opposite to Thinker

One of the reasons why people don’t understand you is that you don’t use the appropriate approach for the people you are interacting with.

Example, if you are a Leader and you talk like a Leader to a Nurturer, the Nurturer will feel intimidated.

If you intimidate others, you will look arrogant and people will stay away from you.

If you are a Thinker and you talk to a Promoter, the Promoter thinks you are very boring, you are a “Killjoy” (KJ).

If you are KJ, people will not invite you to events because you will spoil the fun.

If you don’t adjust, if you don’t adapt, people will NOT understand you.
You will NOT get along with others. You will encounter lots of conflicts.

Think about that!

THE SOLUTION

If you master these concepts, the way you interact with people will never be the same!

When I hold workshops and seminars, this topic is more than an hour long!

I will elaborate more details in my next article so this can help you make more people understand you better!

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