Leadership Performance: Overcome Self And Keep True

A career counselor told me the story of one of her clients. The client is an introverted financial analyst whose working environment requires that she not talk to clients, or talk to colleagues who come in and out of her office. She really could not bear it, and was eager to resign until the consultant suggested that she take a vacation with the company.

Today, the woman works in a bank in Wall Street. To be honest, Wall Street is not suitable for such highly introverted people, so she seriously considered how to explain her request. She told her boss about the nature of her work. Strategy analysis Some quiet time is needed to concentrate. Once she used her experience to make an example, from a psychological point of view, her request became reasonable: working at home two days a week. Her boss agreed.

Perhaps, even if you develop yourself around your core project, you do not want to stray from your personality too much or too long. Well, the best way to play a super character is to be true to yourself as much as possible - to create as many "niche niches" as possible in your daily life.

"Restoring niches" means those when you want to return to reality. self Where to go. It may be a space, just like a path along the Richelieu River; it can also be a time, just like a gap between yourself and your two phone sales. It may mean that before a big job meeting, you have to cancel your social plan for the weekend, do yoga or meditation, or change face-to-face conversation to e-mail.

In the gap between meetings, when you choose to close the door of your private office, you choose a "restoration niche". You can even create a "niche" during a meeting, by carefully choosing the location you are sitting in and the way and time you take part. Robert Rubin is the finance minister of President Clinton during his term of office. In his memoirs, an uncertain world, he described how he always wanted to stay away from the center, whether in the Oval Office or the chief of staff's office, I used to sit at the very end of the table. That physical distance makes me feel a lot more comfortable, allowing me to grasp the process of meetings and to comment from an angle that is not easily shaken. I am not at all worried about being ignored. No matter how far I stand or how far I sit, I just need to say, "respected president, I feel like this or that, or something else."

If we are accepting a new one work When we consider carefully whether the work is restored or niches, we will have a much better life. Introverts need to torture themselves: does this work allow me to spend some time in my own character activities, such as reading, strategy, writing and research? Will I have a private working space or will be arranged in an open working environment? If this job can not give me enough restoration of niches, will I have enough time for myself in the evenings or weekends?

Sometimes people find the restoration of niches in those least promising jobs. I had a colleague who was a barrister. She spent most of her time in wonderful loneliness, such as researching and writing legal briefs. So most of the time, after the end of her case, she rarely went to court, so she didn't have to care about the skills of disguised extroverts when she needed it. Finding a niche is not easy, because most companies do not think about them from these angles. But the most important factor to overcome self resistance is yourself.