This Personality Type Always Gets The Promotion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ค. 2019
- It’s a familiar scenario in most workplaces: A few employees whose skills and performance seem average keep getting promoted - sometimes over their top-performing colleagues.
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There can be a number of reasons for this, but bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch says there’s a particularly common one. The people speeding ahead, she tells CNBC Make It, tend to be “happy extroverts.” It’s a personality type that gives some people “a real career advantage.”
She says she first observed this 30 years ago when she noticed that it wasn’t the smartest person among her Harvard Business School classmates who got hired first, but rather the most popular. These people, she says, were “the ones who were outgoing and friendly - warm, authentic and highly verbal - the ones who planned the beach picnics and tracked you down after class to compliment you on a good answer.”
At first, Welch says, she found this dynamic irritating. “I remember calling home and moaning, ‘Mom, I don’t think my grades here actually count at all!’”
But since then, she says, “I’ve watched the happy extrovert phenomenon play out in companies of every kind. And now, as a boss myself, I understand why.”
“Organizations run so much better when teamwork is high and drama is low,” says Welch. “Happy extroverts help make that happen.” And when these individuals over-deliver on their work, they can become, ultimately, a boss’s “favorite type of employee.”
But Welch says if you’re an introvert there’s no need to despair. “Two of my own kids are your comrades, and they’ve done just fine professionally.” In addition to performing at a high level, she says her introverted kids also “make sure to tell everyone, bosses included, not to mistake their reserve for negativity.”
“They’re in the game, they just communicate differently,” she says. “You have to say this kind of thing out loud. And also, remember to smile much more than you think you have to. People cannot read your mind, but they sure can read your face.”
In the long run, Welch says, “talent almost always wins.” That means, “if you’re on the anti-social side but you’re good - really, really good - eventually organizations take notice.”
Until then, she says, your colleagues who are happy extroverts will almost always have an edge. “Your boss may not tell you,” Welch says, “but hey - that’s what I’m here for.”
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Suzy Welch: There’s a specific type of employee that always gets the promotion-here’s why | CNBC Make It. - บันเทิง
I'm an introvert and very reserved, but I'm the 1 who always gets promoted. I'm now the boss. So hang in there my follow introverts.
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Although you are low key, you are probably also devoid of social anxiety disorder or shyness. And you probably do not come across as wierd.
Either Introvert or nor, you get the promotion for totaly other reasons. Jesus...
LOL what.
Lo doubt it unless you own your own little company.
Only promotions I’ve gotten Ive initiated myself. By finding another job that pays more with more responsibility. I usually give it about 3 yrs, if i don’t smell any signs of a promotion, i leave. Life is short. In the end, put #1 first.
The value of your statement there does kind of depend on the industry/profession you're in.
I love you for your comment!!
@@GoblinsAreAGirlsBestFriend And economic conditions too.
3 years is a long time to expect promotion. I'd say 2 years. Life is short that’s why 3 years is a long time to prove yourself
100% right!!! You can tell if you are not on the boss radar of a career path. Take the salary monthly and keep a lookout.
So like school, a popularity contest.
Pretty much 😂
That's why so many ex athletes go into the corporate world and end up being senior managers. It's not about competence but popularity.
What she is saying isn't exactly the same thing. Those people are superficial if they're being authentic, and that's their actual self. Personally, I think she's wrong because what I've noticed is that people who don't want to be there and cause drama even in front of managers get the promotions. In fact, they can be proven straight-up wrong, but they don't care about wrong or not. For some reason, they're going to pick the lazy people who complain about their job, and the other workers can usually do circles around them, but they're the ones that are turned down.
Polularity dos not do the job. This is bs and a trap.
Happy extroverts and being attractive really helps. I've seen people go really far just on those alone.
this 💯
Facts
What I know is that people who are more serious mostly quiet and be in the limits of work. People respect these people more and are also afraid of such people.
And these people are dedicated, hard and smart working introverts. Introverts are the most productive people so don't underestimate them for promotion.
Just move to another company.
Any boss who places personality over principle should not be in a position of authority.
Precisely
Exactly!
Sorry
Yeah, should. Keep on wishing
I think another thing you have to understand about getting promoted in companies...it is also about fitting in and having "it". Most people in organizations cannot describe what "it" is but notice how some people just fit into the corporate structure and others don't?
People want to retain and promote workers they can be buddies with. Very high school-ish.
Fit in ahh the misery of the outcast introvert!!
Should be titled why managers tend to not promote the most competent employees or how clueless management practices lead to losing out highly productive employees.
So if a hard working person is not getting the promotion or increment he/she will surely stop working so much hard because of not getting the result and then, they will quit the job from the company and join another one. So the company will miss out a hard working person and surely miss out on their performance!!!
@@rac3r5 ok
You said it rac3r5
It really depends on your industry and company of choice, too, though. Also depends on what the promotion would be - i.e. a really good employee does not always have the potential to be a good leader, and if leadership is the only direction of promotion, yes, that means sometimes the best employees don't get the promotion.
I have colleagues who are extremely extroverted but they rarely have anything to say that contributes to a resolution - often an unfounded opinion. Then the introverted, deep thinker opens his/her mouth and WOW, something of value comes out!
Society needs to stop seeing introversion, being reserved, and being quiet like they're disabilities!!! There's nothing wrong with your personality type/characteristics
Ana Melissa Sanchez true! But sadly humans only see whats visible.. Quiet & reserved always seems stuck up or uncaring.
Try explaining that to your school principal. I didn't get promoted just because she thought I wouldn't be able to control the bigger kids. While my co workers who were one year junior than me got promoted within months. I feel disappointed at myself.
I understand what you're saying and I agree. But you need to be extremely confident and experienced in being an initiator, communicator, public speaker, and a promoter of your company and it's product to be in a high level role. This involves giving presentations to dozens or hundred of people multiple times a week.
These traits are pretty much the exact opposite of an introverted personality, which will make the executives hesitant on promoting said introvert into upper management.
There are many ways to overcome those specific situations at work as an introvert, but if they can't express those traits during their interview they almost always will be overlooked for a more outgoing person with the same work experience.
Introversion is by design a bad trait to have in leadership.
@@parin6193 sadly I agree
never be the guy who your boss NEEDS cause giving you a promotion will be AGAINST HIS INTEREST
I really hate it when people use the term "anti-social" to refer to introverts. We're not "anti" anything. I'm an introvert and I still enjoy the company of others, just not a bunch of randos all at once.
Thats what anti social mean u can hang out with family and friends but soical settings and parties are your thing anti soical
Shut up and go home and read a book alone
John Lee. LoL, what's wrong with that? You should every now and then too.
@@aa-jm7js Shut up and go do it all the time. You're never going to get promoted.
John Lee. Promoted at doing what? I'M NOT EMPLOYED AT A JOB at this time. To get promoted would indicate that I am initially employed, in order to be accrued advancement. Where are you hearing that I am working at/for (that I am obviously being owed sums of money payments from since I'm not being paid as an employee from any employable businesses or affiliates, but sounding from you like I'm being considered as one...although, without being payed)? So, who is claiming that I am an employee of theirs? And, who is claiming that I am indefinitely in some type of finance triangle?
Happy extroverts, otherwise known as office distractors. They are the ones that migrate from desk to desk and chat up BS half the day while productive introverts are trying to accomplish their work and have to put on headphones to drown out the noise!!
😆 nah man we're the guys that answer your questions on MS Teams with a smile no matter how dumb it is
Being an introvert sucks. On so many levels.
So change it. It's not like it's rocket science. But you will have to push outside of your comfort level.
@@johnpossum556 It's not something you can change.
@@user-wh6fw2id9n I did. And I'm partially deaf so I have a reason its difficult for me. Try focusing on common ground with others and talk about it. That's like step one to being socialable and making friends.
And look people in the eye, but not for too long unless you're trying to signal you want to go to bed with them.
I walk all over introverts every day. It's so easy. You guys really are total betas.
Be nice to colleagues. Be amiable and sensitive to your boss. Butter him/her sometimes. Be reasonably good at your job and have a basic level of commitment towards your job. That's going to make you stand out, because most people don't do these things
I'm shocked at how so many people are not team players. It's not that difficult to say yes more than no, especially over little things.
What bs, everyone in my office does this. I don't and will never, just find another job.
the workforce rewards the overly extroverted over introverts
When I look at all my managers, this is so true.
Mostly. A few introverts on there.... Maybe one or two.
Bad for you.
What I take home: as an introvert you have to be really really good. As a happy extrovert average is enough.
This happened to me.i am introvert i hardly communicate with boss and did my own thing. Ended up boss brought in HR put me on a three month improvement plan with list of things to improve on with speaking at every meeting being one. There is a guy who is the happy extrovert my boss promoted quickly who doesn't have much work experience being only 25 years old. Anyways I got two job offers on the same day so I left my previous job before the three month was up. This job I accepted offer is a promotion. Went from consultant to project manager so being introvert has its perks too!! It is because of my technical skills and work experience I got this job. That boss has a favorite who she promoted quickly I am pretty sure being only 26 years old would not be able to land this job.
As someone who's executed performance improvement plans, you don't just get those put on you for not being likable, they are a lot of work for HR and Management and a big risk so maybe some reflecting would be wise.
A follow up? How is your career progressing?
Can’t say I agree with this completely. I am a happy extrovert and have succeeded in most aspects of my life except for my career. After excelling at the early stages of my career, My career has become stagnant over the last 10 years and don’t foresee a promotion before I retire.
this is so true. i’ve seen this happen in the workplace many times.
"your boss may not tell you, but hey, that's what I'm here for"
Thanks mom.
Conversely, "happy extroverts" who lack the required intellect, often get mocked and are placed in some mundane roles. It is better to be your true self, rather than try to become someone else.
I'm in sales and one thinks of salespeople as exactly this type as the most successful. Wrong. Study after study shows ambiverts (Of which I am one) make the best salespeople by far. They have the ability to speak AND listen. I"ve seen this type in the video promoted, however...we call them "brownnosers".
Not true. The introvert will get hired and promoted before you even notice.
Introverts are more successful people in every aspects even though the world leads everyone to believe that the one shouting is the one who is makin it.
And note one thing, introverts can be very extrovert when people are around, they are good at faking being extroverts while also maintaning a good dosage of lone time to learn.
Jeff bezos, elon musk and mark zuckerberg just some of the hugely successful introverts that come to mind
Great observation. I agree! 👏🏾 💯
Loved this video! Thanks
Well maybe happy introverts are made of something much bigger than just impressing bosses to get hired. Remember, the most interesting plants grow under the shades. 🤷♀️
I think they get hired because the boss is not intimidated by they ability to make him/her look bad… Not because of the conclusion you reached.
Yep
I’ve seen that sometimes when someone is really, really good at what they do, and because that makes management look good, that person may be passed up for a promotion because the company doesn’t want to lose that talent in the job that person is so good at. Especially if that person is better at a particular thing or is more experienced at something than anyone else.
These people are often used by managers to teach others because the managers can’t even do what they can do.
So, if you are really good at what you do and think that will get you a promotion, it may actually hurt your chances more often than not.
So true!!
Um, this woman needs to study MBTI. Introverts can be happy and outgoing. I’m an introvert and people mistaken me for an extrovert because they see that I’m happy and friendly. Also, it’s not about only extrovert is outgoing it’s how you recharge. Introverts can be outgoing but we recharge by ourselves
This lady must make a terrible leader by the way she promotes people. WOW
Same thing here. I'm very outgoing and friendly and I can talk about anything with a person I barely know, but then when I'm home alone I feel flashbacks of that long scary party and all the things I've said and all reactions and other stuff. :))
I need a couple of days to stay alone to recharge
Not need to be defensive, I think she is just trying to help introverts...including myself
Check out Myers’s brigs personality types, most CEO’s and military officers are introverted. Specifically ISTJ , its not about communication it’s how you process information, the introvert takes it in and thinks about it then makes a decision. The extrovert bounces the information or conversation with someone. Both can be effective but research shows the introvert types are more prominent at the executive/ senior level.
Thank you
This is a topic I hold close to my heart.
Yes, extroverts have some skills an introvert will struggle competing with. But an over the top extrovert will irritate a person who's an introvert. Especially if there isn't the skills to back it up. And an introvert will recognize lacking skills faster than an extrovert. So if the key person on the hiring panel is an introvert, now the scales are balanced out or possibly in your favour. Problem is, im assuming theres less introverts in positions that put them onto hiring panels. Key takeaway... Know the personality of the person hiring. You might not need to adjust that much.
The advantage for an extrovert is in roles that require leadership traits. Team building, moral, encouragement, approachability, coaching, development, and supervision to some degree.
My advice to an introvert who might be aiming for such a role would be to practice being more extroverted. Start it now, not when the job comes up. Its too late then.
I'm going to get eye roles here, but hear me out. You're never going to be that person who talks to everyone you meet in the elevator or that can natually stand up an give a block buster speach by just winging it.... But you probably dont need to be. it doesnt take all that much improvement. Believe it or not it's a skill you can build. I speak from personal experience.
Start by practicing with extroverts one on one. Strike up conversations. Talk about them, ask them questions. Practice showing interest, and keeping the conversation going. Listen to what they tell you, take mental notes, and use thise details for questions in future conversation with them. Get used to conversations. Practice eye contact. Extroverts are great for that. They generally talk to anyone. It builds your confidence talking to people. Its going to be more mentally exhausting at the end of the day than your average work day to start with, but it's going to get easier with time.
Also consider studying personality profiles such as DISC. And learn how to identify and interact with the different personality profiles. It will make your interations more rounded and beneficial.
Hang in there my introverted brothers and sisters. Many introverts have done this. Remember that your advantage are focus, ability to learn, and effeciency. These are items extroverts sometimes have struggles with. Use your advantages to develop your communication skills.
Not "happy*", but "joyful".
"Joyful self-confidence" ~ philosophy
This is the highest level of human development ;)
BR
*"happy" is dependent and can be variable
Read the book “quiet”
Excellent movie and quite fine graphics Web promotion changes constantly.
I have been extremely introvert as a person but also powerful. I have been promoted already twice 🙂
That’s true
Ah...so that explains my recent raise after just 8 months and becoming PoC for my team already...
Our problem is not the personality, it is what the promotors been train in what they want to be attracted to be popular to be grab on to in the communities. Therefore, the whole chaotic concept is put in the growing up minds, by what the people being taught starting out on the first day of school. That help us grow into the behavior we are experiencing today. Who train us to keep adding destruction as being a smart career point to put the person in a better position, which we see who get the most ratings with their career by the things they perform. The strange thing about it, that it become a popular thing for the people to do, as one moves around in the general public. That help take control of our minds in creating the system personality. Is why bad acts are common, and good acts are strange. See the promotors tell their clients what will sell, by every network fall in line with the system to promote it, which make it easy for the client to fall in line with the system. Who see nothing wrong because of the common sense factor been long gone, when their generation grow up to play in the game. See the new young promotors can't see they doing anything wrong, and their clients can't see they doing anything wrong. Because everything is about success, no matter how they get their, or how many people the system allow to be destroy. Which the system don't care because it creates more jobs, in creating private prisons, rehabilitations addiction institutions, and counsellors in the system. It's hard to figure out the right, and wrong factor in this country.
It's not anti-social. It's asocial. They are completely different things. look it up.
Eventually organizations take notice... or not. ))
I have more than twice the years experience of a combined 3 others who got a big sports tournament over me. Every year I get looked over even though every one tells me I'm one of the best. Makes me sick!
"If you're on the anti-social side..."
Um. Being an introvert isn't being "anti-social," thanks. Although, of course, we know some dictionaries include "not wanting the company of others, but let's get serious: everyone knows the immediate definition that comes to mind, at least in America, which I suspect is a huge portion of the audience for this video, is in line with a psychological profile of an antisocial personality disorder.
That could have/should have been phrased as "If you're on the quieter side," or "If you're on the more private side,"
But then, extroverts, happy or not, tend to just blurt out whatever comes to mind as opposed to thinking through how a word or phrase might have a negative impact on someone...
This is misleading. Not the whole picture.
Promotions happen if a company sees value in you longterm.
If you held the team down during a stressful problem.
Or you fixed a stubborn bug that the company doesn’t know how to operate.
Your expertise is a rare trade (backend coding.) that not many are competent to do.
You were able to pull off a project with results for a smaller budget.
Came up with an innovative solution that cut costs.
These individuals get promoted. It’s not character ya’ll. Introverts can get promoted just as much as extroverts as long as if a company sees longterm value. Don’t see the company you work for as an enemy. See it as a system of parts needed to function.
It’s not the personality hire. Those guys don’t last for long.
Talking about Inclusion & Diversity, introverts should be acknowledged for their skills and values (as any other human being), not for their lack of "connection" to their superiors.
They will take notice after you quite
So basically you have to have that type of personality...bubbly, extroverted always happy go lucky to get promoted. Never been that person.
This is not true do you want the sad world because that's the more truthful answer. You can be a worker with the best personality ever and the best worker ever. However, who gets the promotions a people who don't even want to be there without attitudes and are lazy. Sure, eventually, they do something to mess up, but they go way high up on my ladder before they even get to that point. By the way, you can prove them wrong all you want. Even if you do actually prove them wrong, stubbornly pick the other people instead. Trust me, they do get proven wrong, but even after being proven wrong, they don't care about whether they're wrong or not.
Heck even seniority doesn't matter I've seen people that get promoted within a year that really aren't good workers and are just straight-up mean to people
There is no such things as promotions. You have to apply for it when a promotion comes available and the hiring manager has to like you to get it. At least that's how it works in the company I work for, so the only way to "really" get promoted is for a higher up to be impressed enough to tap you on the shoulder to apply for a position
You must be in an alternate dimension. In my dimension, the butt-kissing sociopath or psychopath gets promoted.
I wouldn't say for me, as a manager, it's extraversion - at all. I'm not an extravert myself, and I am currently appointing leaders on my team who are also not extraverts. But I most certainly DID consider _personality_ - as in, as a manager, why would I promote someone who does not show me who they are? I have an applicant who is very good at the job, she's excellent actually, but she responds very negatively to things not going how she thinks they should and then refuses to admit to me she isn't happy, but vents to the team. Why would I appoint someone who doesn't show me their intentions as one of my right hands?
So basically be an annoying overly nice beta to get a promotion lol
Harrie Healey Yeah, most CEOs and upper management are beta males. It's a universal character trait.
Don't forget to be an a$$ licker
the A students report to the B students and the B students report to the C students, always.
And that's why corporate America is in shambles. Very foolsih
Thats why hiring the wrong people like CEO of Boeing was not an engineer even. Plain crashes costing lives
Not truth I am outspoken friendly, people know me oitside my team do my job 100% never called in sick, never complained about coworker, amd still got passed ots been 5 years, and just done
This channel 😂😂🙈🙈🙈
She appears to be talking down to introverts
You meant asocial; not anti-social. Forgivable common mistake Except when you’re making this kind of video As a boss and a Harvard graduate
Interested in what other people are convinced of too. I've noticed if you're attractive, relate to others (you think like the average person) and talk a lot then you'll be considered management material -- as long as you do good enough work. Focus on getting to know the other managers until you're considered one of them
I’m actually a happy extrovert but I almost always eat on my lunch break. Come in early and leave late almost daily. Help out everyone in the office and still manage to keep my clinical studies afloat. Sometimes it’s about balance if that’s possible for your work load.
This is just so weird.
Ugh, another video perpetuating the misconception that "extroverted" = "outgoing" and "introverted" = "shy/antisocial." This is false. "Extroverted" and "introverted" simply refer to how you recharge and gain energy. Someone can absolutely be an outgoing introvert if they love to interact with people but still recharge by being alone.
I don't think thats true.
she's 60 years old!
Wrong!
I respectfully disagree with your premise.
Your ignoring the prospect of other types of reasons: (1) Managers playing favorites; (2) Filling a quota; (3) Seniority System...
An attractive young woman? That's correct.
They always get handed everything, for free, without any effort.
This is BS
Oh geez - talk about oversimplification. Business journalist thinks she’s a psychologist.
not the introverts acting oppressed 😒
13th viewer
Creates a fake environment
Introvert is the new term for terrible social skills.
No, not.