Jessica Chen | How to Bring Your Quieter Self to a “Loud Culture” workplace

Jun 18, 2024

Guest Jessica Chen, Emmy Award-winning journalist, explores navigating quiet culture in loud workplaces. She shares strategies for self-advocacy, effective communication, setting boundaries, and leveraging nonverbal cues. Learn how introverts can succeed in a noisy work environment.

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ANECDOTE

Early Career Challenges

Jessica Chen initially struggled to pitch ideas and assert herself in the loud newsroom environment.
She felt overshadowed by louder colleagues and realized the need for greater visibility.

INSIGHT

Quiet Culture Bias

Quiet culture bias exists in many workplaces, leading to assumptions about quieter individuals' engagement and care.
This bias overlooks the valuable contributions of those with quiet culture traits.

ADVICE

Cultural Reframes

Reframe "speaking up" as "delivering quality messages" by focusing on audience value.
Maximize every work opportunity to open new doors, even if the work isn't exciting.

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Have you ever felt like you just don't quite fit into the culture of your workplace? That the way you naturally communicate, in a quieter mode, doesn't align with what's expected and rewarded in a loud culture? If this resonates with you, then you'll want to listen closely to our conversation today, with guest Jessica Chen, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author, speaker, and CEO of the global business communication company Soulcast Media.

In this chat, Jessica and I explore the tension between what she calls "quiet culture" traits like listening more than speaking, keeping your head down to work, and avoiding conflict - and the contrasting "loud culture" traits that are often expected and rewarded in many workplaces. We unpack strategies for how those from quieter backgrounds can get noticed and make an impact without compromising who they truly are.

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SPARKED GUEST: Jessica Chen | Website | Book

Jessica Chen is an Emmy-Award winner, author, speaker, and CEO of the global business communication company, Soulcast Media.

Jessica is an internationally recognized communication expert and has taught over 2 million people how to improve their communication skills at work. She has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Entrepreneur Magazine. Her course on developing executive presence was ranked #1 most watched by global business leaders.

Prior to Soulcast Media, Jessica was an award-winning broadcast television journalist at ABC, NBC and NY1.

Jessica’s upcoming book, “Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons” releases July 2024 by top publishing company, Penguin Random House, and was just named a “Next Big Idea Book Club Must Read 2024.”

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