After Childbirth, Is Anything Possible?
November 1, 2013
My daughter recently gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. It was a long labor and stressful delivery but thankfully all came out well in the end. She said it…
Tag: extrovert
Busting up the mythology
September 12, 2013
I am pleased that the door to introversion has swung wide open. Yet despite the rise of the introverts many misconceptions linger. Some writers like Margarita Tartakovsky, an eager Psychcentral.com…
Do Introverts Need to Act Like Extroverts to Be Happy?
July 25, 2013
The Wall Street Journal article How an Introvert Can Be Happier: Act Like an Extrovert hit the digital airwaves this Tuesday and two days later there are over a 110 comments and…
Overcoming Performance Anxiety for Introverts
September 2, 2010
There is nothing quite as nerve-racking as walking up to the stage to expose your every weakness, physical and mental, before an audience who is all too familiar with the repertoire. You think you will make a mistake, then you do, and everybody knows when it happened.
Applying the 4P’s Process to Your Job Search
June 3, 2010
If you’re intimidated at the prospect of a networking encounter, focus your attention on what’s important to the person you’re meeting. Your ability to listen and tune in to the other person will make a positive impression – and if the other person is an extrovert, you’ll be creating an opportunity for the extrovert to do what extroverts enjoy most – to talk!
Reactions to the introvert as great blue heron
March 3, 2010
At a recent book signing, Sheri, an introverted training manager, told me she holds onto an image from nature to comfort her when she feels overpowered by extroverted team members. As…
Women – we have come a long way!
October 14, 2009
Early in the 1960s, a freelance writer from New York, traveling to Boston to interview a psychologist for a book she was working on, stopped by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and ordered a drink at the bar. “We do not serve women,” the bartender said, and whisked her off to a little lounge off the women’s restroom, where he brought her the whiskey sour.
Wise Words from an Introverted Chief Nursing Officer
August 25, 2009
I have a special place in my heart for nurses, especially since my older daughter is a pediatric nurse in a children’s hospital. I found the comments from this self- aware Chief Executive, Joyce Ramsey-Coleman of Children’s Hospital to be on point.
Tips Introverts Can Use to Get Heard
July 19, 2009
Not that being an introvert doesn’t have some pluses, too. Kathleen McFeeters, president and CEO of dressmaker Donna Morgan, spent 15 years in the fashion biz before co-founding her own…