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What are Breakthrough Skills?
“A skilled communicator,” “A true leader,” “A creative problem solver.”
Imagine how great it would be to know people talk this way about you when you’re not around.
How about: “High potential” “My first choice” “A great communicator”?
What would it take to achieve this? Know-how? Definitely. But that’s only going to take you so far. Experience? Ditto. A strong network? Still ditto.
You need them all, but at some point, your “people skills”—like Conflict Management, Active Listening,
and Leadership—start to be more important than just about anything else.
Positive emotions, ideas, and questions mean success at work, plus authentic happiness, creativity, and even problem-solving ability. Expect (and get) the best from people and situations. See fresh solutions where others see only problems.
If you want to find a company’s most influential people, just look in the corner offices. Negotiation and persuasion skills are often the difference between a company’s “A-listers” and everyone else
By itself, great work is the tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear it. It just isn’t enough. You’ve got to be sure the influential people in your work life know about it. Learn to talk about your successes with confidence.
