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Personal and Professional Skills for Strategic Goals
Personal and Professional Skills for Achieving Strategic Goals
In order to achieve strategic goals in life, there are many personal and professional skills that are needed. Some of these skills blend and can be used in either scenario (i.e. personal or professional), while other skills are more specific to one scenario or the other and do not "spread" to the other scenario very easily. Additionally, not everyone looks at their goals and the forming of strategy for those goals in the same way, so what one person sees as being valuable in order to meet strategic goals might be completely different from what another person sees as being valuable for his or her strategic goals. When considered carefully, there are only so many strategies available and the best thing to do is to locate the one that works for the person and his or her particular situation.
Professional Skills
Professionals need skills such as multi-tasking and the ability to pay attention to what is taking place around them and in the business climate. Without being able to focus on more than one thing or "juggle" priorities, a person can have trouble in the professional world (Blaxill & Eckardt, 2009; Hamel, 2002). He or she may find that there are some times when this multi-tasking is nearly essential, and if only one area is being addressed there are many others on which the person is missing out. Overall, that can become a serious problem for that person and stop him or her from moving ahead in life professionally. People who are not good multi-taskers often get very little done in a timely fashion in the business world, because they can only do one thing at a time (Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997). That thing either has to be completed before the next thing can be started, or the thing must be set aside and left unfinished while something else is begun. Either way, fewer things are completed quickly and that slows down the entire business....
That does not mean a person cannot have any fun, but that he or she must know when to be serious and focused. Not being focused on something can mean that the person struggles to get an item completed. Additionally, others who work with that person will be skeptical of allowing that person to progress in a professional environment if he or she cannot focus on the task at hand. That lack of focus can harm a business, a team, or an individual professionally and can mean serious problems when it comes to meeting goals (Hamel, 2002; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997). A strategic goal (or a number of strategic goals) requires planning. People who cannot focus cannot plan very well, and that will stop them from moving forward in the way they would like or as quickly as they had hoped or expected. That can lead to being very discouraged, and being discouraged is not conducive to pushing ahead with goals and plans in a professional setting.
Personal Skills
Having proper skills on a personal level is also a good way to move toward strategic goals in life. One important skill to have is the ability to be personable and open (i.e. friendly). If a person is not friendly, he or she may not be as open to working with new people and new ideas outside of a professional setting. That can lead to meeting fewer people - some of whom may have been the best people to help with the meeting of some strategic goals (Nag, Hambrick, & Chen, 2007). While a lot of very goal-oriented people are extraverted, there are also introverts who are highly concerned with making strategic plans and meeting important goals. For people like that, social media may be one of the best ways to communicate. It will allow them to make friends and develop contacts on a personal level without going out into the world and being forced to…
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