Most Important Skills For A Senior Associate Consultant At A Top Audit Consulting Firm
For a senior associate consultant, effective communication—the ability to "conceptualize ideas into really simple words"—is paramount, alongside building rapport with diverse individuals from varying backgrounds. Successfully navigating this requires strong organizational skills to maintain clarity of thought amidst complexity, forming the foundational base for the other two key skills.
Communication, Interpersonal Skills, Organization, Problem-Solving, Adaptability
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Yannan Colljns
Senior Associate Consultant
Top Audit Consulting Firm
University of San Francisco 2015
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Anthropology, Sociology, Fine Arts, Music
Consulting & Related Professional Services
Business Strategy
International Student, Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Took Out Loans, Immigrant, Worked 20+ Hours in School, LGBTQ, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Excellent communication skills, including written and verbal communication and body language, are crucial for conveying complex ideas simply and effectively.
2. Building rapport and connecting with diverse individuals from various backgrounds is essential for collaborating effectively with clients, team members, and colleagues.
3. Maintaining organized thoughts and thinking clearly, even in chaotic situations, is fundamental for building relationships and communicating effectively.
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What skills are most important for a job like yours?
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There are three scales most helpful. One is your communication skills. You have to be able to communicate difficult, hard-to-conceptualize ideas into really simple words.
How do you use your words, your language, and your body language to make it make sense? This is a very important skill in consulting.
Two is being comfortable connecting with different people: your clients, your team members, and your co-workers. They will be coming from all different types of backgrounds. You won't necessarily know their backgrounds, and you might learn on the spot.
You should be able to comfortably connect with people from different backgrounds and build good rapport with them. Lastly, the third skill is about keeping your thoughts organized.
I think that's a lot. That's the bottom level of those two skills, because if you cannot think clearly, you cannot build relationships or communicate your ideas clearly. It's about how you find clear thoughts, conceptualize them, and put them in an organized way when things are chaotic.
So, the three skills are: communication, building rapport with strangers, and finding organization within chaos.
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