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How do you cope as an introvert in HR in an extroverted culture?

Richard
Hi All,
I was just wondering how any of you who have a more introverted personality cope with a company that has a extroverted kind of culture (I can't really think of a better way to describe it).
I've just taken a new role and like to think that I was hired for my relevant skills such as employment law knowledge, recruitment ability, advisory skills, etc but I'm starting to wonder if they thought they were also getting someone who will be the life and soul of the party, run the social committee and that sort of thing.
To be completely honest I am terrified of public speaking and I don't really have any desire to be seen if that makes sense but I am starting to feel (and worry) that my remit is also to plan and run social events. As someone in my mid 40s with a young baby, at this stage in my career and life it just feels like too much on top of an already insane workload.
Someone has approached me today and suggested a quiz at the next company all-hands, sounds good and happy to support it but upon suggesting it, they want me to essentially organise it all and have suggested I be the quizmaster which is massively out of my comfort zone.
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  • I would definitely advocate getting a social group together - people who are keen to organise activities, and who are happy to drive them. Agree the budget and what the parameters are (because: work event, work responsibilities, and all the misconduct possibilities there), and stand back.

    If anyone says you ought to be MC, you can gently point them to the fact that if anything happens at a work event, you're the one that needs to be seen as a neutral point of contact, not the organiser.
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  • I would definitely advocate getting a social group together - people who are keen to organise activities, and who are happy to drive them. Agree the budget and what the parameters are (because: work event, work responsibilities, and all the misconduct possibilities there), and stand back.

    If anyone says you ought to be MC, you can gently point them to the fact that if anything happens at a work event, you're the one that needs to be seen as a neutral point of contact, not the organiser.
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