Navigating Conversations with Avoidant Personalities: 5 Archetypes & Communication Strategies

Takeshi Yoshida
13 min readMay 5, 2024

How do we speak with people who avoid conversations? This is a universal challenge for leaders, alongside leading through resistance to change.

I tackled this topic for our April 2023 Mental Model Dōjō community session. In this 22-minute video, I share five archetypes of avoidant personalities and corresponding communication strategies.

Dig in, this is key leadership learning!

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Takeshi Yoshida

Chief Coach, Agile Organization Development (agile-od.com) — we are a tribe of change, transformation, innovation experts