Organizational Clarity: The introverted personality at work

The crazy thing about the workplace is the various personalities involved and how to navigate them. Most of the time, there is a lot of back and forth, but sometimes it is just a one-way street. Now as funny as this sounds this could be for a litany of reasons, you can have Your introverted personality which is still cool, only harder to motivate or find out what motivates this person.

On the other hand, you may be dealing with an individual that is burnt out or maybe fallen out with the organization and any members that represent it. This person seems like the one that is so negative, you cannot reach or maybe is a waste of organizational resources. To me, out of the two, the latter is the easiest one to reach. Finding out that soft spot or place where the "honeymoon" ended with the organization can be easy as pie.

Whether there is a drop off in production after a certain event, ie: Performance appraisal, or being passed over for a promotion, all that data can is easily found in daily production reports or peer interviews. Hence, when it comes time to engage as an OD professional or as a Manager with employees of an organization there are timelines, measurable data and third-party confirmation to assist in this endeavor, in overcoming the walls of the "burnt out" employee.

Linked In... nah.

There is a real good reason that while in school I am not on Linked in, it seems that everyone I worked with thinks its Facebook light. And posts pictures to their personal profile that belong on Instagram, not in a professional profile or environment. Then my special friends want to connect with me, but unfortunately linked in now works you are in a bind to use all the free services without a specific number of connections meaning that to use LinkedIn  I am forced to link up with these individuals.

Yes, they are friends but they do not understand the need for a professional image nor know that organizations frown upon such profiles, when associating with specific candidates I have tried to discuss these issues with a friend who was guilty of the professional futa poa their response was that they did not care what Organizations thought! But they also did not care how that decision impacted others as well. If employers frowned upon their profile then they will definitely assume (falsely) that I was unprofessional as well.

The proof was in the pudding during a job search last year I shut down the linked in account when searching for opportunities and that being the only change I made, I was not surprised when I received more emails and calls from prospective employers. Now, this not a scientific study but the evidence to us was plain to see. Without the linked in account, I was more professional and more of a mystery to organizations that did not want to chance to associate with someone who was in turn with people who were unprofessional themselves.

Although you do not want to hurt your coworkers or friend’s feelings nor do you really want to deal with an organization that looks past your resume and accomplishments but this is the real world and these Things actually occur reaffirming the old saying not to judge a book by its cover, but in reality organizations and people who hire still do that being the case that is why I shut off linked in so I do not give any organization a reason to judge me until that first live interaction and maybe you should too.