Month: March 2022

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Does Making Business Critical Decisions Fill You with Fear as a Newly Appointed, Introverted Executive Leader?

Ineffective decision making has significant implications for company productivity. On average, respondents spend 37 percent of their time making decisions, and more than half of this time was thought to be spent ineffectively. For managers at an average Fortune 500 company, this could translate into more than 530,000 days of lost working time and roughly …

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Are There More Introverts Than What We Think There Are?

Reports estimate that between 30-50% of the population are introverted. Whilst, the exact amount is not known, for many people who are introverted, they are made to feel like introversion is not the ideal. Our workplaces here in the UK, the US, and many other parts of the world seem unfavourably biased towards extroversion. When …

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Is Instant Gratification Ruining Your Long-Term Success?

When wanting to make sustainable changes in our lives, creating new habits will not happen overnight. But we’ve adopted a culture where we want instant results, which can have negative repercussions on our long-term goals. I hold my hands up myself because I sometimes fall into that trap. For example, towards the end of last …

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5 Ways Introverted Women are Hindering their Leadership Success

Having coached many introverted women leaders over the years, there are some common themes I come across which, for many, have been hindering their leadership success. These challenges create anxiety and stress, which negatively affects their self-confidence, their ability to assert themselves, their decision making, and their ability to exude presence. Because they have reached …

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