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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.

Wine in coronavirus times

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Money management habits

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Catherine Barba: "We are Living in a World in Rupture".

"The world is changing faster than ever." With this categorical phrase, Catherine Barba, Internet pioneer, entrepreneur and angel investor, talks about the world in which we find ourselves, a world that, in her opinion, "is in rupture or breaking down". In her opinion, the changes we are experiencing today force...

Presence and Cosmetics

When I started coaching 15 years ago in Spain, the problem was that no one knew what coaching was. They not only did not know what it was but the did not know how to pronounce the Anglo-Saxon word with its origin from sports. Now the problem that I have...

Times Keep Changing

The spur that has infected our lives has also infiltrated politics. One month in the 21st century is much more than a year of the twentieth century, and a year equals a decade. While the no-confidence motion that sprung Pedro Sánchez into power from the hands of a heterogeneous group of...

Antonio Garrigues -- "Communication has to be more and more selective".

Antonio Garrigues Walker, president of the Garrigues Foundation, talks to Valvanuz Serna Ruiz, managing partner of PROA, about his book "Surviving to tell the tale", the challenges posed by COVID-19 and the importance of communication in this new phase. This video can be played whenever you are interested in...

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