From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace
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Multitask mindfully
From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace
Multitask mindfully
- There are tons of studies and opinions out there on the positives and negatives of multitasking. As extroverts, we have a high capacity for it, but that doesn't mean that we need to engage in it all the time. All tasks are connected on two axes, complexity and skill. The higher the complexity of the task and the skill level required, the fewer things should get in the way. Activity needs to be monodimensional. If you are an extrovert watching this, you know that you can handle the barrage of social media, electronic information all at once, but probably not while working on an important project. My suggestion to you is that you multitask mindfully by doing some of the following. Schedule your high engagement and interaction times, the larger groups, the one one one meetings, and the calls for the time of the day when your energy is higher. Like my good friend Bob, a fellow extrovert, he enters important meetings without a mobile phone in hand and without the agitation of caffeine in…
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