From the course: Managing Your Career as an Introvert
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Prepare your talking points
From the course: Managing Your Career as an Introvert
Prepare your talking points
- Introverts notoriously like to think before they speak, which makes on-the-fly networking tricky sometimes. One way, then, to make social encounters feel a lot less stressful is to prepare talking points in advance for the most frequently-encountered situations. That gives you the confidence to know that you're going to hit the key points, and you're less likely to falter or freeze up in the moment. Here are a few common questions, or scenarios, where it may pay to prepare in advance. First, guess what? When you meet someone for the first time, it is a virtual certainty that they're going to ask you, "what do you do?" So there is no excuse for winging it. Take the time to develop a response you like, that feels natural and highlights some of your unique strengths. Yes, you could say, "I'm an engineer," or "I'm a lawyer," and that's fine, but the goal isn't to shut them down as quickly as possible. It's to provide a conversational volley, so that they can hit the ball back to you…
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