Evan Short 247.155

Public speaking as an extroverted introvert... I've always seemed to my friends and colleagues as an outgoing and confident person, which I think I am, but it's a complex thing the old internalised self-image. Since I was young I was forced to stand up in front of crowds and sing songs to strangers: on busses in Japan, at primary school assemblies, at extended family gatherings and the list goes on; my mother would coerce me to perform because "you have such a beautiful voice", but behind my only slightly nervous eyes lay a vast sea of embarrassment and fear. By the time my early teens came around I think those dancing monkey routines had stripped me of all ability to feel shame, leaving me shameless and unshamable. This was a good and bad thing. One one hand I wasn't afraid to speak my mind and share how I really felt about certain things, from sexuality to art; religion to politics but on the other hand I lacked tact and was contrary purely for the sake of a g

Preamble. Teams are an important part of working in this modern day and age and remote teams are becoming more and more common in many sectors of work. I left a great team at my previous job but we we not that much more than the competent dregs of the IT department who sat in the same room. Quite often our work had no crossover with each other and if a question was fielded to any one of us that was outside that person's scope of work it would get redirected to the correct person or team. I see now while we were a team in name we weren't a team at all in practice. We did have a great boss and leader though, he would task us with things that fit our skill sets and sometimes with others to challenge us, he focused on development in a very transformation type style; he encourage us to deepen and widen our skill sets in directions that were interesting and rewarding. In the Beginning. Our team came together with a very juddering start. The process by which one can form an online