Confessions of an Introvert: The Shy Girl's Guide to Career, Networking and Get

As an introverted professional, you're bright, ambitious, and ready to get ahead despite a business world that often favors extroversion. Whether you seek a flourishing practice, a promotion, meaningful projects, or to become a respected leader, you want to optimize your career without compromising your basic quiet personality. This is the first book to explicitly address introversion as it relates to a broad range of professional dynamics in the workplace. It not only covers the topic in detail but provides a comprehensive professional development program. In this book, business behavior expert and introvert Joyce Shelleman, Ph.D. presents a straightforward three step strategy - grounded in behavioral science and drawn from experience - to deploy your introversion as the vital professional asset that it is. With this roadmap to navigate successfully to your goals, you learn to: Recognize and adroitly push back to overcome the unwritten workplace rules that put introverts at a disadvantage Build your influence, lasting connections, and professional network with integrity, guided by your personal values Let your quiet competence, expertise, and thoughtfulness be your leadership and career edge Focus your precious energy and time on what matters most TABLE OF CONTENTS:IntroductionPart I   Claim Your Identity1. Are You an Insightful Expert?2. How Being a Professional Creates Challenges for an Insightful Expert 3. What is Introversion?4. Introvert or Extrovert?5. Introversion in the Professional Workplace6. The Third Eye Framework: A Strategic Roadmap to Professional SuccessPart II   Create Impetus7. Develop Your Plan8. How Planned Change Happens9. Muster Courage to Take Action10. Values = Meaning (and Motivation)11. Raise Your Self-Awareness12. From Experience Comes Confidence13. No Longer Hidden and Blind:  Self-Disclosure as a Path to Connection14. Emotional Intelligence:  The Insightful Expert's Secret Tool15. Get to Specifics:  Identify and Target Your Stakeholders16. Learn to Exercise Your Power and Influence Others17. From Impetus to InterfacesPart III   Structure Your Interfaces18. Do Your Research19. Decide on the Rules20. Rehearse21. From Interfaces to Internal CapabilityPart IV   Build Your Internal Capability22. Manage Your Energy 23. Networking Made Simple24. How to Participate in Teams and Lead Them Effectively25. Communication Basics26. Listening is Communication27. Communication Reciprocity28. Assertive Interactions29. Communicate to Connect30. Social Anxiety: Nothing to Shy Away From31. From Internal Capability to Third Eye ExpertPart V    Choices and Challenges32. The Dark Side of Introversion?33. Sandwiched by Introverts:  Dealing with Introverted Staff, Bosses, and Colleagues34. Career Choices and Strategies35. Right Livelihood36. Behold Your Leadership Afterword

Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and a successful consultant who speaks to thousands of people every year, found that most networking advice books assume that to succeed you have to become an extrovert. Or at least learn how to fake it. Not at all. There is another way. This book shatters stereotypes about people who dislike networking. They’re not shy or misanthropic. Rather, they tend to be reflective—they think before they talk. They focus intensely on a few things rather than broadly on a lot of things. And they need time alone to recharge. Because they’ve been told networking is all about small talk, big numbers and constant contact, they assume it’s not for them. But it is! Zack politely examines and then smashes to tiny fragments the “dusty old rules” of standard networking advice. She shows how the very traits that ordinarily make people networking-averse can be harnessed to forge an approach that is just as effective as more traditional approaches, if not better. And she applies it to all kinds of situations, not just formal networking events. After all, as she says, life is just one big networking opportunity—a notion readers can now embrace.

Get noticed . . . and get ahead!All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.In Self-Promotion for Introverts®, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet strengths, articulate their accomplishments, and launch an action plan for gaining career advancement. You will learn how to: Promote yourself without bragging— when networking, on job interviews, and at work Use your quiet gifts (writing, researching, and listening) to your advantage Be a commanding presenter, despite your quieter nature Formulate your best plans, set goals, take action— and even find a better job Featuring exclusive advice from Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and marketing guru Seth Godin, Self-Promotion for Introverts® helps you progress inward, outward, and onward.

The Shy Writer teaches the introverted writer how to function in a promotional environment, avoid intense situations, and still sell books. If you are shy and don't want to "get over it, " this is the book for you.

Devora Zack, an avowed introvert and a successful consultant who speaks to thousands of people every year, found that most networking advice books assume that to succeed you have to become an extrovert. Or at least learn how to fake it. Not at all. There is another way. This book shatters stereotypes about people who dislike networking. They’re not shy or misanthropic. Rather, they tend to be reflective—they think before they talk. They focus intensely on a few things rather than broadly on a lot of things. And they need time alone to recharge. Because they’ve been told networking is all about small talk, big numbers and constant contact, they assume it’s not for them. But it is! Zack politely examines and then smashes to tiny fragments the “dusty old rules” of standard networking advice. She shows how the very traits that ordinarily make people networking-averse can be harnessed to forge an approach that is just as effective as more traditional approaches, if not better. And she applies it to all kinds of situations, not just formal networking events. After all, as she says, life is just one big networking opportunity—a notion readers can now embrace.

Get noticed . . . and get ahead!All too often, introverts get passed over for job offers and promotions while their more extroverted colleagues get all of the recognition. But it doesn’t have to be this way.In Self-Promotion for Introverts®, business communication coach and intrepid introvert Nancy Ancowitz helps introverts tap into their quiet strengths, articulate their accomplishments, and launch an action plan for gaining career advancement. You will learn how to: Promote yourself without bragging— when networking, on job interviews, and at work Use your quiet gifts (writing, researching, and listening) to your advantage Be a commanding presenter, despite your quieter nature Formulate your best plans, set goals, take action— and even find a better job Featuring exclusive advice from Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, Hearst Magazines president Cathie Black, and marketing guru Seth Godin, Self-Promotion for Introverts® helps you progress inward, outward, and onward.

The Shy Writer teaches the introverted writer how to function in a promotional environment, avoid intense situations, and still sell books. If you are shy and don't want to "get over it, " this is the book for you.