I’ve (25F) been at my current job for a year and a half and due to my lack of social skills I feel really out of place when I’m in the office (hybrid work model). I think part of it is because I can just type everything I have to say to people throughout the day and rarely have to interact face to face. I’m friendly with the people on my team and we all talk to each other sometimes, though I feel like I’m missing out on others and that they don’t trust me or talk to me because of my weirdness as an individual. While I’ve always been an introvert I was pretty okay with socializing before I started this job (doesn’t help that this is my first job out of college and I have no friends). I love all the aspects of my job except for this and would like to improve. How can I be more approachable and social at work?
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People like like looking into mirrors
If you don’t judge people, and instead you try to understand them, you put yourself in their shoes and then summarize what they say to you to show you’re listening, you’ll come across as more approachable and social at work (and in any other setting), regardless of how weird you are
I am trying to learn that haha. Right now i am pushing myself on the social front but to return to my old self is going to be hard. I anticipate it to take a year , how long do you think it will take you to be more approachable and social?