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The perfect bus for introverts? Or not?

February 14, 2010

I am not sure how I feel about this. Easy for me to say as an adult, but isn’t the school bus a kind of learning lab for social interaction? We learn how to make conversations and talk to people different than ourselves. We even get some experience in fending off the mean girls and rough boys. And what about getting the real scoop about teachers and school policies, etc.??? All of these are skills that serve us well as we swing through the workplace.

“Cool Coming Off As Cold” – Coaching Obama

February 7, 2010

I have been discussing the idea of the Perception Gap for a while now. Introverts often are misunderstood and considered aloof or disengaged when they don’t exude warmth. Newsweek’s writer, Jacob Weisberg, had an interesting take on President Obama’s temperament in the piece, Cool Coming Off As Cold and how this perception is becoming an issue for our President.

Plugging Into A Warm Network

January 4, 2010

“My brother lost his job,” said my friend, Sam. Will you give him some tips? I asked how much of a network his brother had and Sam turned to…

Booking It

December 8, 2009

I am taking a short break from blogging/tweeting/facebooking/texting and email. Actually am welcoming the chance to reading non work books – a bio of FDR, a memoir by speaker and coach, Shirley Garrett – A Tap Water Girl in a Bottled Water World and Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants.

An Introvert Asks: How Do I Get People to Hear Me At Meetings?

November 24, 2009

“An Introvert Asks How Do I Get People to Hear Me At Meetings? “After a seminar I did last week for Execunet, I received many questions – some of which I am still responding to (Thank you listeners!) After responding to this question I decided to post it on Linked In and thought the answers were terrific. Ask and ye shall receive. They range from the standard, (“Go to Toastmasters”) to the old teacher trick of waiting until everyone is quiet to strut your stuff.

“Grow Out of Introversion?”

October 26, 2009

I usually like the advice that John Rosemond, a parenting expert, gives in his columns. However I agree with Yuri, an introverted professional who wrote to critique a recent column in which Rosemond offered advice to a worried mother of a 4 year old twin. She said,

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.

Practice – the strategy of choice

September 13, 2009

Mr. Leno continues to be a brute for work. Last year, even working 46 weeks on “Tonight,” he managed to perform his stand-up act on 160 dates. It is not uncommon for him to finish taping a show and then fly off somewhere like Fresno, Calif., where he appeared this summer at a chicken festival in 104-degree heat. He said he had just as many stand-up appearances booked for this year, even with the new show.

What Can We Learn From the Bad Job Market?

August 26, 2009

I really do think there is going to be fallout as far as the way people manage their careers, particularly when you’ve been laid off. It changes you in very significant ways,” says Jennifer Kahnweiler, an Atlanta-based executive coach and founder off AboutYOU, Inc..

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