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10 management skills demanded by companies

Carlos Recarte, founding partner of Recarte & Fontenla, explains in the Proa Comunicación videos when companies should call a headhunter. He also details how important it is to take into account the professional moment and highlights the 10 managerial skills that companies currently demand:

  1. Courage and determination to take risks and accept failures.
  2. Decision-making capacity increasingly complex without having all the information.
  3. Self-awareness of our strengths, weaknesses and blind spots that cause us not to be able to see our mistakes.
  4. Flexibility to adapt to permanent changes.
  5. Constant learning both in terms of personal development and in terms of the sector in which we operate.
  6. Networking skills both physical and virtual.
  7. Develop a global mindset to help us to have a more complete vision of the world and to understand different cultures.
  8. Capacity for innovate and reinvent almost permanently.
  9. Integrity to say what we think, humility to learn from mistakes and failures.
  10. Ability to motivate and inspire others to overcome the usual resistance to change.

How to Manage Reputational Scandals

Alberto Andreu, associate professor of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business of the University of Navarra, clarifies what reputational scandals are, what their causes are and how they can be managed. "Companies have to organise their work more by projects than by functions. Reputational risk occurs when there is...

José Antonio Rodríguez Piedrabuena-- Why do we age?

Ageing is a factor mainly due to the dysregulation of the systems intended to prevent, repair and regenerate our body. Since the aim of a geroprotectant is to increase life expectancy, treatment should start before any chronic disease appears and delay the onset of the disease.

--The International Press Club presents its International Journalism Awards

Carlos Herrera, María Dueñas, Jordi Socias, Daniela Santiago and Mujeres por África are the other winners of the Gold and Silver Roses at this year's edition of the International Journalism Awards The International Press Club presented its International Journalism Awards on 8 October....

Cristina García Alonso -- Communicate insurance in uncertain times

To talk about communication of the insurance sector is to speak, among other things, of studies, rankings, investments, sector events, results, appointments, CSR initiatives and products, many products. At least, these isthe information that proliferates in the specialised media on a daily basis. Although it is true that, since the...

Interview with Paloma Beamonte, independent advisor and expert in cultural transformation

PROA interviews Paloma Beamonte, independent director at Axialent, on the relevance of organisational culture for Spanish companies and the need to maintain communication as one of the pillars for successful cultural transformation processes. Paloma Beamonte is also a member of the Board of...

National Security in COVID-19

The objective of security is to ensure the integrity of people, physically and mentally, as well as everything necessary to achieve this, such as property, health, food, communications, etc. To do this, the vulnerabilities of the system to be secured must be determined. This is how the risks can be evaluated and, once these have been assessed, the...

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