This introverted CEO says the workplace is built for extroverts—she uses these 2 simple strategies to thrive. (via CNBCMakeIt)
The workplace is built for extroverts, says Deb Liu: Your success is often tied to your ability to share, speak up, connect and lead others.consumer genealogy business Ancestry.com, describes herself as distinctly introverted. She graduated from engineering school with honors "practically without speaking at all," she tells CNBC Make It. Hard work, Liu says, was enough to get by.
Ultimately, Liu credits her extrovert training — a self-prescribed plan to help herself become more comfortable and confident engaging with others — to her career success. SheHer strategy could potentially help a large swath of the American workforce: That mindset will prevent you from getting better at extroversion, she says. Instead, she recommends thinking about extroversion like learning a new language: You can't master it in an instant, but you can always improve by directly practicing with others.
That type of goal-setting approach worked for an "extremely introverted" employee Liu once supervised, she says: She told him to speak up at least once in any meeting that ran for 30 minutes, and twice in any meeting that ran for an hour. The more he spoke, the more comfortable he gradually became using his voice more broadly in the workplace.
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