Getting ahead in your career: don’t let your soft skills hold you back

Navigating your career at an agency can be challenging, especially at the SAE level. All of a sudden, the skills that made you a stellar AE and SAE don’t matter as much compared to your soft skills. Soft skills are inherently harder to learn and master because they fall outside of the hard, job specific skills that you have learned over time. They are also dependent on a number of factors – all of which are rooted in your emotions and reactions to others.

This session will dive into what your supervisors are looking for when it comes to promoting you to manager and ways you can work on your soft skills and grow into a strong leader.

Key takeaways from the event:

• What your managers are looking for and how to discuss your progress towards a promotion with them
• Understanding the top 5 skills that make you a strong manager
• How to incorporate these skills in your current day-to-day work

Speakers:

• Colby Jones – Agency talent development consultant
• Surj Bahra – Image consultant