Introverts Can Still Be A Great Horse In The Workplace.

Generally speaking, enterprises also place more emphasis on extroverted employees and give them more opportunities for promotion. On the contrary, introverted employees are far less treated in this respect.

The reason is that introverted employees often need to use their thoughts or one to one communication to absorb energy, but in the company, such employees are easily overlooked.

However, according to statistics, introverts and extroverts are basically equal in number.

This means that a surprising number of talented people will not be able to enter the executive level.

This proportion is the same as that of women, and Susan Kaine believes that neglecting introverts is a lack of foresight.

Susan Kaine recently published a new book, "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Stop".

"It reflects our culture's bias towards introverted character," she said.

Borrowing Betty Fleton's sentence in the book "Feminine Mystique", "it is a nameless problem in our culture" - though very common, at least so far, few people have talked about it.

Admittedly, introverts can face various obstacles if they want to succeed in the workplace.

For example, personality tests conducted by many companies during the recruitment process seem to be deliberately designed to eliminate introverts.

Kaine said that even if introverts passed the test, he would soon find that "most of the company's workplace layout is to achieve the greatest degree of stimulation."

About 70% of her offices are designed to be "open" office environments, she said, and people must "tolerate the noise in open offices all the time and the attention from colleagues."

Most companies are "too superstitious about the role of meetings and brainstorming", and companies value people who are good at self-expression, such as those who always take the lead in speaking regardless of their value.

As a result, "most of us have learned how to hide our true selves when we are young, and are deliberately more outgoing."

But this phenomenon ignores the fact that many advantages of introverts are also very useful for a company.

First of all, like thinking is not a bad thing.

CEO Lisa Petrilli, a C-Level Strategies company, claims to be an introvert, dealing mainly with medium-sized business leaders with a market value of $1-10 billion.

"We get energy from the so-called inner world," she said.

This energy is very powerful.

Good ideas can really promote the development of the company.

We can interpret the behavior of gaining energy from the inner world, that is, "we can find and create a vision to attract others to follow."

Secondly, although introverts say very little, they are very good at listening - it is a good skill to communicate with customers.

In fact, introverts may be better at it.

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Lindsay Pollack, a spokesman for LinkedIn, a business social networking site, said: "people always think that it is the essence of communication to take the initiative to strike up a conversation with strangers in a cocktail party.

In fact, the best way to communicate is through intermediate acquaintances.

Shy people are most comfortable communicating with acquaintances.

They can make friends introduce other people.

And this is a very effective communication strategy.

Lindsay Pollack's Getting from College to Career will be republished in the near future.

However, for introverts and companies wishing to tap their talents, there is good news that technology enables people to display themselves more conveniently without having to talk in meetings.

Kaine said, "what technology really can do is that it enables us to communicate with others in a more mild way."

For example, for

It's much simpler for people to introduce themselves by e-mail than by phone.

"And through the Internet, we can interact with hundreds or even millions of people without leaving the home."

People can easily share and discuss a white paper instead of flying around to make a presentation.

Positive measures can also be taken to help introverted employees work more freely.

Kaine suggested that the company should carefully consider the layout of the office, so that employees can maintain their individuality and privacy in the office without having to go through the tedious procedure of booking conference rooms and convening meetings.

"There's no need to make it so complicated."

Even if we have to rely on meetings, we should reconsider how to make the conference really play its role.

"Companies should provide all kinds of opportunities to all employees so that they can contribute to the company rather than let everyone rush to the top."

In fact, the simplest thing is to announce the agenda of the meeting ahead of time, so that introverted employees have "plenty of time to think and prepare."

Introverts can often get energy from this kind of thinking, so maybe they will have a very good idea -- of course, the premise is that the boss is willing to listen.