After the end of the pandemic, companies, both nationally and multinational companies are looking for experienced executives with the following critical characteristics and skills:
1. High emotional intelligence-EQ. It is an essential skill to exercise leadership in a rapidly changing business and corporate environment, which presupposes high self-knowledge, stability, self-confidence, behavior, high sense of responsibility towards the company and the staff.
2. Excellent communication skills. Greater immediacy with partners, customers, suppliers, through easy connection and collaboration with every corner of the globe, but also the remote work of staff through respective platforms, make a serious priority of success.
3. Empathy. An important expression of emotional intelligence that is directly related to an executive’s ability to inspire, motivate, empower, and effectively support his or her subordinates, who more than ever need high-level leadership guidance.
4. Change management. The ability to overcome obstacles and difficulties, to adapt immediately to new conditions and to lead his team successfully on the new path led by the events and conditions of the global market. The search and implementation of more solutions for each problem, and not more problems for each solution.
5. Digital skills. The development of new IT and digitization tools, the continuous automation of work lead to the need for executives to possess relevant knowledge and experience, and to effectively support the transition to a green economy.
6. Support in the triptych: environment-society-governance (ESG). It is a requirement of the time that directly affects the future of societies. It concerns simple and complex actions for all companies, regardless of size and object, and will soon affect the accessibility of raising funds for financial institutions and funds.
7. Stress management and balance of personal and work life. Work demands will never be less and everyday life simpler and easier to manage. Emphasis is placed on the ability of a manager to cope with stress, apply daily stress management techniques and train staff so that the benefit is transferred from the workplace, to personal life and to the families of employees.
