5 corporate superpowers: what's yours?

Hello!

Here we are to continue our virtual chat about the 5 most sought-after skills today.

Let's consider the following hypothetical situation: during an interview, the recruiter asks you which of the 5 competences below is the most important to you and why. What would you say? What would be your justification? Which of these is the most important?

1. Teamwork;
2. Emotional intelligence/control of emotions;
3. Resilience/resistance to stress;
4. Communication skills;
5. Proactivity

There would be no harm in defining or choosing any of them. Absolutely! However, let's opt for competence number 3 - Resilience/resistance to stressThis is a skill that has long been acclaimed in the corporate world.

The term resilience has its origins in physics and refers to the ability of a given material to return to its original state without breaking after undergoing deformation.

In the labour context, being resilient is the quality of a flexible and highly adaptable employee. However, it's important to consider that in order to be resilient, you need an action from the environment that causes discomfort, a crisis or adversity. It is only in the face of a sharp, real event that could jeopardise an activity, for example, that resilience will be seen in the individuals involved.

Let's imagine there is a fact and you have shown resilience: you had to change your holiday because a colleague needed emergency medical intervention.

That's it! Your leadership calls team and tells his colleague what happened. He then informs them that they will need to adjust everyone's holidays. There aren't many options! He feels devastated by the news, he had made plans and now everything has fallen apart. A mixture of anger and apathy sets in. But here comes another exceptional skill: the proactivity.

He reconnects and thinks of ways to make the situation as less traumatic as possible, in other words, he uses his emotional intelligence and invites his colleagues - through his excellent communication skills - to think of alternatives to such a sensitive situation. And they manage to agree that they will take fewer days off and that there will be no "gaps" in the delivery of activities until their colleague is ready to return. Voilà qui arrivé! Nothing could be more resilient than that, don't you think?

Let's realise that, in any scenario (prioritising the corporate world), all five of the competences mentioned above are and will be interconnected. One reflects the other, which calls the next and is completed by a third. It's a connection!

But it's important to consider that we will always have one or more of these 5 competences in focus and, once again, there's nothing wrong with that! What we need to keep in mind, always, is that we must improve them every day, enhancing those that need more development in us.

By: Milka Râbelo.