It's her idea. Actually, my previous team lead wanted me to do the personality/first impression training as well, 3 years ago, but I got out of it when I quit

It's so very frustrating to keep hearing that I need to improve my communication when I'm already at a place now which seemed impossible to me 5 years ago. I get that people who didn't know me back then don't know this but it's still disheartening.