Comments on: Quiet Employee Reluctant to Speak Up in Meetings? Ask Madeleine https://leaderchat.org/2023/04/08/quiet-employee-reluctant-to-speak-up-in-meetings-ask-madeleine/ A Forum to Discuss Leadership and Management Issues Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:13:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: IntroTom https://leaderchat.org/2023/04/08/quiet-employee-reluctant-to-speak-up-in-meetings-ask-madeleine/#comment-86110 Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:13:12 +0000 https://leaderchat.org/?p=16919#comment-86110 Maybe the manager should do a workshop do manage meetings better? My experience as an introvert is that 99% of the low and mid tier manager are just very bad at managing introvert employees, bordering on discrimination, only (like this manager) wanting to keep the extravert monopoly with (long) big meetings in place which is so pre-covid.

I would advice more working from home and Zooms/Teams meetings, for people like him and me will jump ship in the future. Poor guy, I understand why he’s silent, he’s probably mentally dead tired. Well actually I already have jumped ship and are self-employed, because of the introvert discrimination in 99% of the companies. I just refuse to work for a company that imposes the extravert monopoly or even worse, like advice like you give “Introvert Conversion Therapy” with training etc, instead of changing the culture at the workplace to 50/50 introvert friendly.

It also bothers me that you don’t even recognize this person as introvert, which bothers me because you claim to be a competent coach, but you Arent even able recognize this and give specific advice, and going straight in to “Introvert Conversion” aka the introvert must change, not the manager/company/co-workers. I find it discriminating, and call up-on introverts to emancipate, not assimilate/adjust, the adjustment need to be at the other party, its 2023.

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