7 important professional skills to work or undertake

We live in a society immersed in constant changes, and these especially affect work, or rather, the way in which we work and develop our professional careers.

Job or role changes at work are becoming more common, the need to learn new habits in less time, and especially the need to undertake to enjoy living with your own business despite the difficulties of the start. What are the keys to being able to adapt to so many changes?

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The 7 most important professional skills

In the last 10 years I have accompanied as a coach and psychologist people who wanted to achieve deep and lasting changes in their lives; new goals related to your self-esteem, personal relationships, emotion management, and especially with regard to professional goals.

The needs can be very numerous: learning to manage a work team (because there are bad personal relationships), learning to communicate with the team or with clients, learn to delegate, develop productivity, overcome the fear of dismissal or failure in certain professional aspects and the fear of job change, overcome the stress, etc.

In all these cases, I discovered that whatever the objectives or the particular situation of each person, the key was always the same: the development of key professional skills. The result will depend on these skills both with the team and with clients, users, students or with projects and ventures.

For this reason I created Empodérate, a free skills development program to grow as a professional where, I accompany people to take the first steps and that you can visit here.

Let's see below what are the key skills so you can detect what your main need for improvement is.

1. Managing emotions

Every second of the day we are feeling emotions, and these influence you not only in our mood but also in each decision made.

Managing emotions can be considered without a doubt as the most important professional skill both to work with people and to improve the work environment, lead a team or undertake successfully. Emotions such as fear, anger, guilt, anxiety, insecurity or frustration can block us if we do not know how to understand and manage their effects on us well.

This need is quite common among people with a lot of responsibility at work, such as managers, managers, coordinators, etc. The higher the responsibility, the more common is the need to know how to manage our emotions. For entrepreneurship it is an essential pillar, since the fears to overcome are numerous.

2. Empathic and assertive communication

Empathic communication is the ability to connect with the other, and assertiveness implies that you know how to communicate your limits and responsibilities in a transparent and at the same time friendly way.

When these skills are lacking you can commit the risk of not knowing how to say no, accumulate work, stress and anxiety. It is also important to know how to communicate empathically if you work with users, clients, or even with students if you work teaching.

3. Personal relationships (positive influence and authentic leadership)

If you work with people, personal relationships are the key to working in peace and with growth and success. Leadership is not really guiding, ordering or advising, but positively influencing in others, accompanying them in a process where you make them better and the responsibility of the team and their cooperation increases.

Leaders, actually, we are all in some sense. For this reason, developing your leadership is especially important if you work with people and as a team.

4. Decision making

Sometimes not knowing how to make decisions or not making any can paralyze work and its efficiency, in addition to generating anxiety, insecurity and guilt. The problem is primarily emotional, but the solution is to enhance decision-making.

Decision-making implies that you are more effective, more efficient, you face challenges and needs sooner and you increase speed of work, but at the same time stress is reduced, since there is nothing more stressful than paralysis before a decision for taking. What prevents us from making important decisions is fear, as well as insecurity, and these are psychological factors that must be tamed.

5. Time and resource management

Time is relative, but if we do not know how to make it plastic, you will become saturated with work and lack of time, which leads to more frustration and stress. Managing time and resources makes you more effective and above all efficient, and it is also a factor where emotions are vital.

If you learn to have time on your side through proper organization, decision making and emotion management, you will be a professional who achieves more and better results with less time and effort, which is the great goal of the work.

6. Planification and organization

This skill, along with decision making and time and resource management, are what make you a productive person or not. Productivity relieves you of stress, makes you gain more free time, allows you to focus more, and thus then be able to enjoy your personal and family life. It is something that can also be trained.

7. Delegate and trust

Finally, knowing how to delegate and trust is a personal and psychological skill that it will make the team grow, relationships improve and you can find the necessary focus to keep moving forward.

Why is it so difficult to trust and delegate? Again it is an emotional factor, habits and beliefs. Delegating and trusting is not just sharing responsibilities, but knowing when, with whom, how, and how to supervise it. A series of attitudes and complicated tasks.

conclusion

Ultimately, the most important professional skills are not taught in college or business schools, but are learned gradually on the job; but it is very stressful to learn them in situations of change and pressure. For this reason, it is so important to live a process of change where you develop these skills and have them on your side in record time.

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