human teams are biased against introverts

Recently I’ve been thinking alongside other leaders about how much responsibility we have to do something about this. My current answer is something like, “make the inherent, required extraversion of team life safe, accessible, and learnable.” 

 This is different than “apologize for and try to shrink the extraversion of team life.”

Your people need to talk to each other. Teams have to do things that are awkward or unusual in other contexts. (Delivering direct, unsolicited feedback is one example.) Building a culture worth belonging to often means creating rituals that put people briefly on stage or put parts of their relationships to each other on stage. Lots of people very reasonably dislike being on stage at all, ever. 

This can be a thing, among many, that it’s worth a leader being direct about, to the point of didacticism or dorkiness. 

-Eric