Commanding genuine respect, one that doesn’t rely on your position power is one of the hardest things to do for an introvert. There are five simple actions we can adopt straight away that can help us to establish our presence in the room and command the attention and focus on what we have to say.

The key to promotion for introverts is to unleash our deep thinking and put them into practice. The mindset shift is to realise, you have to demonstrate you are operating at the next level before you actually get promoted. There is a simple way to demonstrate this by changing what you say and do when you encounter an issue. Use this principle to change your mindset and you will find success.

If you want to stop being treated like a doormat, you need to first stop being a doormat. But change doesn’t occur instantly. You need to start with recognising when you are not being true to what you want and use that as the source of setting up your boundaries early. This interview with Jocko Willink is short but to the point on the dangers of being a doormat and how best to stop being treated like one.

It hits your suddenly. Self doubt and negative self talk. You don’t know what’s triggered it. But worse still, you don’t know how to stop it. Before you know it, you’ve lost your self confidence and it takes days, weeks, or months before you can get it back. There is a simple technique you can do straight away to interrupt your brain and stop the negative self talk instantly.

Where did your inspiration go? Where did drive, the ambition, the optimism and energy go? Life gets in the way and we often forget the goal of becoming the best version of ourselves. We lose the drive, the desire to become who we can be. In one of the best speeches, Simon Sinek provides the five principles we should all discover in life to drive us back onto the journey of becoming the best version of ourselves.

You are intelligent. The fact that you are reading this blog means you’re self aware enough to know that you want to develop into the best version of yourself. But there are simple things that we do everyday, which can hinder our intelligence or hinder how other people see the potential within us. Here are six actions/mindsets we need to stop today to fully demonstrate what we’re capable of.

Executive presence is not a mystery. Once you understand what it is, it takes just a few simple actions to build the foundations of great presence. We’ve done the research and applied the steps. Here we’ve decoded executive presence for you to help you stand out and be your best.

To win the day, you have to first conquer your morning. You have to discover your own routine, one that works to help maximise the return from enduring the pain of a 5 AM wake up call. To get you started, here are four simple actions you can take that will raise your resilience and mental alertness.

One of the keys to your career progression is you ability to influence people and your overall volume of influence across the organisation. As introverts, we often underestimate how much influence we have. But influence is constantly changing and you need to continuously build upon it. There are five simple actions you can take daily to build, maintain, and enhance your tower of influence.

The words ‘networking event’ drives fear and dread into every single introvert. But there are five simple actions you can take that will turn you next networking event into a productive session and you might even have fun while doing it. When you network correctly, you stand out from the crowd and can build strong contacts who may hold the keys to your next career opportunity.

There are a few simple rules you need to follow to ask the right questions and establish the foundations of a sound relationship with someone senior or a key stakeholder. Asking the right questions makes you stand-out from the thousands of tiny chit chat questions senior people deal with everyday. So be memorable and learn the rules that ensures you stand-out each time.