Donna Grennan is an HR manager at a software development firm with a diverse and multicultural workforce comprising of Asians, Hispanics, and others. Around the time of Halloween, she approached their CEO Juan Cruz with a plan to conduct a special program for all employees. Her idea was to create an opportunity where all employees can showcase their culture, in addition to the typical Halloween celebrations, by coming to the office in their traditional clothes and bringing some of their native cuisines. Juan shot down her idea before she had even finished presenting her plans and told her, instead, about the various employee participation initiatives he had scheduled for Christmas. Juan represents the _______ listening style in this scenario.

Competitive listening consists of paying more attention to what is going to be answered than to what the speaker is communicating. In this way, is kind of impossible to focus exactly on what the speaker is telling. Therefore, a competitive listener is normally listening just to halt of the information transmitted, they are commonly thinking only about winning the argument no matter the cost in the conversation.