Dear Thriving Introvert!

Here's a special invite for you:

🎉 Free webinar: The Pre-Pivot Phase

Thinking about a career change? Before you sign up for a course or rewrite your LinkedIn headline, there's a step most people skip: finding out what the job is really like.

On Tuesday, November 10 at 2 PM ET, I'm teaching the full pre-pivot process in a free FlexJobs webinar.

You'll learn how to:

• Tell whether you need a new career or just a new environment

• Research a field before paying for a degree or certificate

• Reach out to people doing the job, with scripts made for introverts

• Explore quietly while employed, or build momentum between jobs

• Decide your next step based on evidence, not escape

Everyone who attends gets my free Pre-Pivot Toolkit.

Save your spot: https://www.flexjobs.com/events/event/1489​

Can't make it live? Register anyway. FlexJobs records the session.

In this newsletter, I'll cover:

• Year-end review season: how to document your wins once and use them twice

It's that time of year. Budgets are closing, calibration meetings are on the calendar, and somewhere in your inbox is a self-review form you've been avoiding.

Most leaders I work with treat it as an administrative chore. They rush it at 10 p.m., list what their team did, and hit submit.

Here's what I saw from the HR side of the table: your self-review is one of the few documents where you're expected to talk about your impact. No one will call it bragging. It's the job.

And the same evidence you write for your manager is the raw material for your LinkedIn profile, your resume, and your interview stories. Whether you're asking for the promotion in January or quietly preparing your next move, you only need to do this work once.

Document once, use twice

This week's article walks you through a year-end self-review built for two audiences: your current leadership and your next employer.

Inside the article, you'll find:

• The 3 types of wins leaders forget to claim (and why recruiters care most about the third)
• A simple formula to turn "my team delivered" into scope, decisions, and results that are yours
• How to keep a private "evidence file" without anyone at work wondering why
• What to say in your review if you're asking for a promotion — and what to leave out if you're planning to leave

👉 Read: Year-End Self-Review: How Leaders Document Their Wins for a Promotion or a Quiet Exit​

Your energy is part of your strategy

November has a way of filling every open slot on your calendar. Year-end deliverables, holiday events, planning for next year — all while you're thinking about your own next step.

One boundary worth setting this month: block 30 minutes a week for your career, not your company. Put it on your calendar as something neutral like "Planning." Use it for your evidence file, a LinkedIn update, or simply thinking about what you want in 2027.

You don't need more hours. You need protected ones.

Talk next Thursday,

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💻 Missed last week's newsletter?

I discussed:

• How to network effectively with senior leaders on LinkedIn without cold pitching or requesting uncomfortable video calls.

​Read it here!