List of 12 soft skills that seemed necessary in the presentations, although, logically, they also contributed to improving other tasks:
conceptual thinking,
synthesis capacity,
empathy,
didacticism,
flexibility...
List thinking that training by competencies would be imposed, within that kind of reengineering of continuous training in companies, as a desirable advance compared to the more traditional courses by tasks:
"efficient presentations",
"Participation in meetings",
"Negotiate successfully",
"teamwork"...
• Conceptual thinking I have suffered transparencies (or PowerPoint screens) with a large geometric apparatus and profusion of arrows, which I could not understand even with the presenter's explanations: I may be clumsy, but I have other testimonies; and I have also run into some forced interlocking of concepts, with whose classification or hierarchy I did not feel in tune.
• Dialectical discipline The dialectical or narrative discipline allows us to advance in the desired direction, closing the parentheses that we open, where appropriate, and ensuring that we are followed.
• Capacity for analysis and synthesis Unlike conceptual thinking, analytical thinking seems to be located on the left side of the brain, more methodical, sequential and rational; But it is already known that the whole brain works "as a team."
• Creativity This is a broad concept that includes cognitive elements, such as divergent thinking, and also emotional elements, such as that disposition to the new that misoneists lack.
• Security and self-confidence Of course, you have to start with self-knowledge. Before undertaking any personal development action, one must ensure that he is well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, and that he acknowledges his feelings and the consequences of these.
• Self-control It goes without saying: if one does not adequately control his impulses and emotions, he generates an image of a somewhat primitive person. But self-control goes further, so that we can use our powers and assume our responsibilities, even under pressure and, in general, in difficult or adverse conditions.
• Eagerness to achieve It may be more necessary in some presentations than in others, but, even if we do not try to convince anything (even if we are in the assertive or neutral zone, without entering the persuasion zone), at least we have to make our presentation satisfy to the audience, and it is not bad that it shows, if it does not turn into complacency.
• Flexibility There is certainly the danger that we want to impose, at all costs, our script of the moment; But be careful: we have to be flexible enough and, of course, we have to be very flexible if intuition gives us a warning.
• Empathy Of course, the reader would already be thinking about her. Whoever writes this, an engineer due to the demands of the family script, spent a long time without knowing what empathy consisted of, and the same happened to me with assertiveness and other traits. How could I improve my empathy, if I didn't even know what it was, and perhaps didn't even possess it? Now I can't imagine a salesperson who isn't empathetic; but I believe that this is the first of the social competences, and therefore necessary for everyone.
• Organizational awareness It was also an advertised competition. By focusing on the business environment, we cannot forget the position of each person in the audience within the organization.
• Didacticism Whenever you have to speak in public, you have to be didactic to some extent, although sometimes you have to be more so: it depends on the content. It seemed to us that this is greatly appreciated by the audience, and that there is a noticeable difference between the most didactic and the least.
• Control of the allegation It is not necessary to insist on convincing if it is not necessary, nor when it is intended to be obstinate in it. It seems like a truism, but we do not always control well the appropriate level of our allegation effort, situated between the unpretentious information and the other extreme: convincing, and even winning, with our arguments.