How to Develop Your EQ to Elevate Your Career - EP071

What is the most important skill of a good leader? 

Think back to the great bosses you have worked with. What qualities did they have that you wanted to emulate? Were they great at the technical aspects of their job? Did they have a good head for business or a high IQ? Or was it something more?

Being equipped with the hard skills necessary to perform your position is important. But other skills, like communication, collaboration, empathy, and adaptability, are equally valuable and should not be overlooked. 

Those are soft skills. They include the personal qualities you bring into every boardroom. They are the traits that help you elevate individuals, empower teams effectively, and make a lasting impact.

We can always learn technical skills, and hard skills are ever evolving. Yet, a leader with a highly defined talent for communication or collaboration will always affect positive change in the work environment. 

On this episode of Career Confessions, we’re going to take a closer look at what it takes to deep dive into improving your soft skills, so you catapult your career growth.  

Let me be honest with you, it can be hard for us to recognize our own innate soft skill superpowers. And it can be even more difficult to determine the areas where we need improvement. Working on elevating yourself is not something that comes naturally.

Listen to learn how having the right coach in your corner can help you improve your technical skills while growing your soft skills so you can make a bigger impact.  

Key Takeaways  

Why technical skills will only take you so far in your career
How to become a leader that effectively solves problems

The key type of growth that pays the most dividends
Why soft skills are vital to workplace culture

Why it’s so hard to assess your personal soft skills
How to pave your own way by leaning into your unique interpersonal attributes

My strategy for unearthing your soft skill superpowers 

 

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