Introverts Won't Participate...Right? During the Q&A of one of my talks at the IBM Connect conference an audience member asked "How can we get the introverts to adopt collaboration tools because it seems they would be less prone to participate?".
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Introverts Won't Participate...Right? During the Q&A of one of my talks at the IBM Connect conference an audience member asked "How can we get the introverts to adopt collaboration tools because it seems they would be less prone to participate?".
Introverts get a bum rap sometimes. They really do. And it's even worse because a lot of times it's for stuff they don't even earn. It's for characteristics that we (generally) attribute to them. Here are some of the culprits. 1. You can always tell if someone's an introvert. False.
It's easy for someone who's not a big talker in meetings to be pigeonholed at work as lacking ambition or drive. Conference calls can fly right by and he's still reflecting on what to say. Thomas G. Lynch, a self-described introvert, shook off his old image among managers as quiet and took on new leadership roles at work-without becoming a backslapping extrovert.
by Nichole O. Nichols The thought of an after five networking mixer exhausts me. It's not that I don't like meeting new people. It's not that I'm an anti-social hermit or that I don't appreciate the slick ambiance, Lalah Hathaway and Ledisi singing in the background, or the myriad of saditty finger foods and drinks (no shade, I love saditty food.
