Confidence for Introverts: Be Heard Without Faking It [EN]

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

You have been told to speak up more. You tried it, it was exhausting, and the version of you that showed up was worse than the quiet one.

Advice that asks you to compete where you lose

Speak louder. Interrupt. Sell yourself. Every piece of it says the same thing: become someone else, in the arena where that someone else is already better than you. Meanwhile the actual problem stays untouched. Decisions get made in rooms where the fastest speaker wins, your best thought arrives twenty minutes after the meeting ends, and the colleague who says less of substance more often is the one being considered for the promotion. And because none of this is about competence, working harder makes no difference at all.

What this course covers

Forty-one lessons that move the problem rather than restate it. Your own wiring first: where the typologies came from, the four classic scales and what introversion actually means on them — a way of recovering energy, not a fear of people — DISC, PAEI and the weakness of each type, reading someone's type in conversation without asking them to test, Belbin roles, the Hogan survey, the Big Five and the sixteen types. Then self-valuation: who an impostor usually turns out to be, the seventy per cent, the trap of finding something too easy to charge for, what market value is made of, and standing on three legs rather than one. Then your own reactions: influencing through logic against influencing through emotion, emotional charging and the role of stress, recovery, the components of emotional intelligence, how people actually change, coaching with empathy and rapport, the ideal version of yourself, and the three development zones. Then the competencies that work at any volume: active listening as a trainable skill, empathy, navigating an organisation, influence, negotiation, networking done deliberately, accountability, admitting a mistake, and deciding when the situation is incomplete. Then the format where preparation beats volume: why the one-to-one exists, its seven distinct types, building enough rapport that people tell each other the truth, the coaching mode and when it is wrong, feedback that lands. Finally the career: what actually blocks one, identifying your talents, the career cube, the balance wheel, the development plan, the Keirsey questionnaire, search strategy, the CV and profile, money, burnout and recovery, and the checklist for someone companies compete over.

Three blocks written for the other chair

The competency block was recorded for a professional audience and its first lesson compares certification models. The one-to-one block was recorded for the manager who runs the meeting rather than the person attending it — which is precisely useful here, because knowing what the other side is trying to get out of a conversation is what lets you steer it. The career block was recorded for a coach working with a client, and every tool in it applies directly to yourself.

Who is teaching this

I am Mike Pritula. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn, and I have worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank. More than 1.6 million students have enrolled in my courses across 185 countries, and over 150,000 specialists have gone through my programmes. I hold PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and represent HRCI in more than ten countries.

What is included

• Lifetime access to all 41 lessons

• Active instructor support in the Q&A section

• A Udemy Certificate of Completion

• Working material: five personality frameworks and where to take each, the market value model, the emotional intelligence components and three development zones, the competency set, the seven one-to-one formats, GROW, the career cube, the balance wheel, the Keirsey questionnaire and the development plan

• No advice to speak louder, anywhere in it

Where to start

Think of the last meeting where you had the right answer and said nothing. Write down what would have had to be different — not about you, about the meeting. Enrol now and start today.