Power Of "Quiet" People At Work
Key Takeaways
Our CEO and Founder, Jessica Chen, recently hosted a Soulcast Media | LIVE event on LinkedIn where she interviewed Mental Health Advocate and Founder of Creatively Quiet, Linda Le. They shared tips and personal stories about the unique strengths quiet people bring to the workplace.
Here are the takeaways for VIP Comm Pass members:
- Have conversations with your manager to help them understand why you may not speak up in meetings. Ask to have a quick one-on-one before or after a meeting to give your ideas.
- For managers, understanding your team may not all show up the same way is important to foster an inclusive speaking environment.
- Communicating and being invalidated can make you feel undervalued; however, communicating and being heard can be life-changing.
- Quiet culture traits consist of ensuring you are humble and modest, not seeking the spotlight, avoiding confrontation, and putting your head down and doing the work.
- Finding a work culture that doesn't put you on the spot can be beneficial when looking for a place to work.
- It's important to consider colleagues who are quiet, especially if you are loud or extroverted.
- When speaking with your manager, it is important to prepare talking points. Bring examples of times when it was hard for you specifically to speak up in a meeting, or why a loud environment isn't conducive for your success.
- Accommodations make people feel seen.
- To feel seen and heard, it may take you sharing more with your colleagues and manager so they understand why you need accommodations.
- Sometimes people can take your politeness as an opportunity to walk all over you.
- Being assertive doesn't make you disrespectful.
- There is nothing an extrovert can do that an introvert can't do.
- Linda said, no one ever listened themselves out of a job.
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