Activate your Introvert

In this week’s show

• Neighbours, and I don’t mean the ones next door to you.
• Dr Who (regenerating again). 
• Too much Ego interferes with leadership
• A discussion with Alison Charles: Alison, with her team, help clients achieve Real Resilience. She helps leaders create a focus on resilience, wellbeing at work and stress Management. Contact Alison at https://real-resilience.co.uk/
• Question of the week: How should you manage introverts?

My takeaways from the discussion were:

• Resilience is more than surviving; it’s being adaptable and fit for the future
• Dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty is becoming more important
• Working from home makes managing resilience harder, you need to make more touch points
• Importance of telling people where you’re at, not just expecting them to open up
• We all need to talk to others at times, but quality is better than quantity

What were your takeaways? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

In this week’s show

• Neighbours, and I don’t mean the ones next door to you.
• Dr Who (regenerating again). 
• Too much Ego interferes with leadership
• A discussion with Alison Charles: Alison, with her team, help clients achieve Real Resilience. She helps leaders create a focus on resilience, wellbeing at work and stress Management. Contact Alison at https://real-resilience.co.uk/
• Question of the week: How should you manage introverts?

My takeaways from the discussion were:

• Resilience is more than surviving; it’s being adaptable and fit for the future
• Dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty is becoming more important
• Working from home makes managing resilience harder, you need to make more touch points
• Importance of telling people where you’re at, not just expecting them to open up
• We all need to talk to others at times, but quality is better than quantity

What were your takeaways? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

In this week's show

• Why leaders should think about mental health week
• Introversion is not a mental health issue
• Being introverted does not mean you're lonely.
• “First impressions count” in recruitment, and one of the problems with that.
• 76% of Americans are against bringing the Tyrannosaurus rex back from extinction, 10% are in favour. 

This week it's mental health week, so this show is mainly about Mental Health. Mental Health week is an opportunity for people to talk about mental health, raise its profile and lower the stigma.

Previous episodes of Activate Your Introvert (available at Activate Your Introvert.co.uk) have touched on related issues. You can listen again to episodes by Mike Pagan, Kathy Chillistone and Lisa Seagroatt. Those episodes touch on why understanding mental health is important for us as leaders, which is also a theme for today's episode.

This episode has a slightly different format to normal, I hope you enjoy it.

The survey by MaryAnn Wei called "Social Distancing and Lockdown – An Introvert’s Paradise?" is available here

In this week’s show

• Are you overly reflective, or positive like Piers Morgan?
• What’s the worst place you’ve ever dropped your mobile phone?
• A discussion with Martyn Pentecost: Martyn is a product creation strategist. He helps authors (and others) from the initial idea to a finished product range. I was recently using parts of the personality profiling system he wrote about in "The Key in Your Pocket: 9 Ways to Unlock Your Personal and Business Success". Contact Martyn on LinkedIn , click https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpowr/
• Question of the week: Can you change from being an introvert?

What were your takeaways from the discussion? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk  and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and you'd be welcome to join me on the show, if you like.

In this week’s show

• Returning to the office and planning change the right way round
• A discussion with Mindy Gibbins Klein: Mindy is a high energy, low maintenance and fun professional speaker and consultant focused on Thought Leadership and Thoughtful Leadership. Contact Mindy at https://Mindygk.com
• Question of the week: Why should I treat introverts differently? A 4 STEP guide to improving communications in the whole team, including your introverts, without treating people differently.

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk  and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and you can join me on the show, if you want.

My takeaways from the discussion were:

• How long is a useful thought
• Are you being a thoughtful leader, or a thought leader?
• How is being busy affecting your ability to be thoughtful

What were yours? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

In this week’s show

• Happiness, overly simple measures of people issues and extroverted v introverted leaders
• A discussion with Lysette Offley. Lysette is the founder of Genius Material and The Genius Principles. She helps people break through the glass ceiling, building on their natural preferences and helping people learn. Contact Lysette at https://Genius-Material.com or https://GeniusPrinciples.com
• Questions which simply annoy introverts and display a lack of thought

My takeaways from the discussion were:

• Brain is always looking out for you – the little voice in your head. We shouldn’t fight it, but no how we can use it.
• To study, optimally, consider your personality. Introvert, or extrovert.
• To run an effective team, consider your personality, so you can help others use there’s

What were yours? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk  and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and you'd be welcome to join me on the show, if you like.

In this week’s show

• Do you remember, café working and Rishi Sunak’s photo :
• Jon’s thoughts on small talk. There is no guest this week as I’ve been asked so often about small talk, I thought I’d give you my thoughts . But back to normal next week.
• Question of the week: Do introverts enjoy themselves?

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk  and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and you'd be welcome to join me on the show, if you like.

In this week’s show

• Sports bras, trends, and motivation at work
• A discussion with Mark Lee: Mark is a recovering accountant who now devotes his time helping other accountants to be more successful in practice. He also runs a website for specialist tax advisers and anybody wanting specialist tax. Mark was one of the first people I interviewed on the show over 2 years ago. Mark’s episode was one of the most popular episodes and he is a great guy to chat to, with lots of business performance ideas worth listening to Contact Mark at https://findataxadviser.online or https://linkedin.com/in/bookmarklee
• Question of the week: Workplace bullying – Are introverts, or extroverts more likely to be bullies?

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and you'd be welcome to join me on the show, if you like.

My big takeaways from the discussion were

• Just because some people don’t show enjoyment, doesn’t mean they’re not and introverts may fall into that group.
• Online training and conferences will be more common in 2023 than 2019 and there are benefits to that
• Adapt generic advice to suit your personality
• Have clarity on the type of people you seek to influence the most.

What were yours? Add to a discussion on the Facebook page Activate Your Introvert

In this week’s show

• Can you remember 2 years ago this week? So much has changed, for introverts, for business, and many other aspects of life. How have things changed in your work interactions, two years on and are you helping create that infamous new normal, in a positive way?
• A discussion with Derek Arden: Derek specialises in negotiation and runs an excellent podcast called Monday Night live. Recently he was talking about reframing, which is an interesting subject for many aspects of business, including leading people, improving your own performance and of course negotiation. reframing, an interesting concept Contact Derek at https://www.derekarden.co.uk/negotiation-blog/
• Question of the week: What should I ask an introvert? Small talk is something many people don’t like, both introvert and extrovert. But interestingly many extroverts don’t know how to start a conversation with somebody who doesn’t like small talk

What question would you like answered about introversion? Visit ActivateYourIntrovert.co.uk and let me know. I’ll answer your question on the show, and invite you onto the show if you'd like.