THE THREE SKILLS OF A GOOD PROFESSIONAL

I did one year ago a very interesting training  to develop my  communication skills in IESE and the lecturer (Conor Neill from Moving People to Action) gave us a talk about which skills Warren Buffet was looking for when recruiting people for his organisation.

Why is important the opinion of  Warren Buffet?. He is called "the Oracle of Omaha" because he is one of the world biggest investors in shares and he was born in Omaha in USA. He was in 2013 in the fourth position of richiest people in the world according the magazine Forbes after Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and Amancio Ortega. He is still living in the same house that he bought in the centre of Omaha in 1958 for  $ 31 500.

According to Warren Buffet, a  good professional should have these three qualities:

1) Energy. This skill is needed to do a lot of tasks, for example, if a person lacks energy, he will not be able to work too many time or do many tasks during the work time. This is the heart of a professional.

 

2) Adaptative intelligence. The intelligence is the ability to quickly relate facts and arrives to conclusions. There are different kind of intelligences, for example, if you have a high mathematical intelligence, you will arrive quickly to conclusions in maths calculations or if you have high emotional intelligence, you will arrive quickly to conclusions about emotions or human reactions. These two intelligences are important but the key intelligence is the  adaptative intelligence. This  is the ability to adapt quickly to changes when they arrive. For example, if an action is not more the priority and it is replaced by another one, it is key to  prioritise your time for the key action as quick as possible, and of course, guess the trends in your company / department.  This is the brain of a professional.

3) Integrity . This is that your actions, your speech and your life are harmonised and aligned. For example, if you say that  you are multi-tasks and very efficient, but when you have to do several tasks at the same time, you do not finish the tasks on time and in your personal life you always procastinate the tasks , there is not integrity. Then it is important that you know yourself and you know which are your main skills and then your speech is aligned. This is the body of a professional and it is key to obtain the trust of others.