Most Important Skills For A Senior Consultant At Deloitte
Deloitte Senior Consultant Jorge identifies "analytical thinking, communication, leadership, and managing ambiguity" as crucial skills for consulting success. The ability to "break down something complicated and communicate that efficiently," while navigating complex problems with "no very direct solution," is highlighted as essential for a consultant's career.
Analytical Thinking, Communication, Leadership, Problem-Solving, Ambiguity Management
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Jorge Galan
Senior Consultant
Deloitte
University of Texas at Austin - 2013
University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business - MBA
Spanish & Other Languages, Fine Arts, Music
Consulting & Related Professional Services
Consulting
LGBTQ, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical skills are crucial for evaluating qualitative and quantitative data to solve complex problems.
2. Communication: Excellent communication is needed to convey complex ideas clearly and efficiently to clients and colleagues.
3. Leadership and Ambiguity Management: The ability to lead teams, manage ambiguity, and create structure in complex situations is vital for success in consulting.
Transcript
What skills are most important for a job like yours?
For consulting, there are four main skills that I would say are important to have or to strengthen: analytical thinking, communication, leadership, and managing ambiguity.
If you're in consulting, you need to be able to look at a problem and think about it in different ways. You have to be really good at analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data, so that's important.
With communication, you're engaging with people all day and communicating very complex ideas. Being able to break down something complicated and communicate that efficiently is super important.
With leadership, there's a lot of responsibility to be working with these really high-end clients. You need to be able to lead comfortably in that space.
Lastly, ambiguity. A lot of these problems are really complex and don't have a very direct solution. You need to be comfortable managing all that ambiguity and creating structures for yourself.
So, I would say those are the most important skills you need to be a successful consultant.