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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.

Do you grow or are you entertained?

One of the biggest problems in the market for management skills training and coaching services is that we easily confuse entertainment with growth. Not only clients, but even the trainers themselves confuse the art of growing as a person and as a leader with the sheer fun of playing the game.

BCG Report -- Head, Heart and Hands: the qualities of a leader

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) conducted in autumn 2020 a study in 4 European countries (France, Spain, United Kingdom and Germany) among 4,000 professionals, with the aim of understanding which were the most valued characteristics in current leaders. The study revealed that consideration, empathy and listening are the most appreciated qualities...

Eduardo Rodríguez Rovira -- Corruption and transparency 2020

Transparency International has just published the Corruption Perceptions Index 2020. In this indicator, Spain ranks 32nd out of the 180 countries analysed. Spain has fallen two positions since 2019. Frankly, we have no reason to be proud. At the top in corruption cleanliness, without any...

-- BCG Women's Boot Camp Spain

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will hold the 3rd BCG Women's Boot Camp Spain from June 22 to 24, an event aimed at female university students from all over Spain that offers the opportunity to learn first-hand how to generate value, impact and change the world from consulting strategic. Oriented towards...

AIG - All Blacks Rugby sponsorship: an example of a success story

Recently it was announced that the sponsorship of AIG, the world leader in the insurance world, with the All Blacks, the best known and most emblematic team in the world of Rugby, was not going to be renewed. This news has caused a lot of impact as it is one of the...

Communication and Growing your Business

Carlos Mira, predsident of the Cre100do Foundation, explains what the foundation does, what characteristics it shares with the companies to which it is dedicated. and details to what extent the communication and brand of a company can be important for its international expansion, focusing on five key factors that a company can...

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