One of the interns in my team talks to herself, a lot.

I for one do sometimes mumble a bit here and there (when completing tasks, things I’m typing, etc.) I know many others who do, too.

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coach her, its unfair to her if she doesn't get behavior coaching as well as performance coaching.

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Right.

Your role as a manager of interns and analysts is to coach and guide them.

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Leave her be

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It’s probably self-consciousness. (My mother does this...) let her know that she’s doing a great job and that you really want to see her succeed. Then share that she may not even know she’s doing it, but the chattering undermines her executive presence and distracts from her growing capability. Suggest that she should try to keep the inner dialogue inside/to a minimum. Ask her if she’d like you to nudge her (metaphorically) when she’s doing it if it’s so subconscious that she doesn’t really notice it.

You’re helping her by giving her this feedback. If it’s distracting to you, I’m sure the client has noticed too.

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I see many people do say things to themselves sometimes actually, but that are still within the range of normalcy - that another person wouldn’t consider weird.

But in the case of this one particular intern, she does it so frequently that she is basically chattering to herself all day. Maybe it’s social ineptitude, or awkwardness
- not sure.

Sometimes she would just applaud herself and make commentaries. It’s really making me uncomfortable, and honestly quite annoying. It’s not a sin or anything, and she isn’t super loud. But loud enough that you can hear here if you sit anywhere around the same space.

Not sure if I should even have a convo with her, or leave her be (and curb my annoyance).

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Odd.

“Never make your superior look worse than you” she needs to know that and get off her horse

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I’ve come across a lot of juniors like this in consulting. I think the industry attracts these types. 🤷‍♂️

Yep. Talk to yourself. Constant mumbling. Zero awareness of surroundings. Social ineptitude. An awkward, weird lot in general.

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