Team events and introverts
Activate your Introvert - A podcast by Jon Baker - Thursdays
In this week’s show Sweden’s PM has been tweeting the wrong Liz Truss. Swan on train tracks holds up rush hour commuters for an hour One of my favourite lines from Dale Carnegie is still getting quoted. “Show interest in others, and others will show interest in you”. I’m going to add a caveat to it though. A discussion with Lindsay Barnett: Lindsay provides flexible and independent HR support and advice to busy HR teams and businesses. Contact Lindsey at https://lindsaybarnetthr.com Question of the week: Why should we treat introverts more softly than everybody else, there’s only one of two of them in the team. My takeaways from the discussion were: It’s easy to disengage a large part of the team when trying to engage the team Ask, in different ways, what people want. Consider socialising ideas which involve talking about the specific event, not general chat. Get to know and understand your own preferences, so you don’t always impose them on others