From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace
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Overview need for introverts to stretch
From the course: Finding Your Introvert/Extrovert Balance in the Workplace
Overview need for introverts to stretch
- All right, introverts, hopefully you're starting to see what incredible value our temperament brings to the world. We listen, and we make others feel valued. We contemplate. We're intensely focused. We gently influence others. These are attributes our world desperately needs. So in these next videos, when I talk about flexing our style, please, please don't interpret this to mean that we are in any way lesser than our extroverted colleagues. We already battle the extrovert ideal, this subtle bias in corporate culture toward extroverted attributes. People have mistakenly assumed that chatty, charismatic people make better employees than quiet, reflective people, especially in some areas like sales or leadership. Recent works like Susan Cain's Quiet and Marti Olsen Laney's The Introvert Advantage are breaking down that misguided thinking. People are interested in understanding introversion. A search on the word will return memes, blogs, a BuzzFeed on 31 Unmistakable Signs That You're…
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