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The Key Business Skills You Need For 2024 and Beyond

Charlene Walters, MBA, PhD
3 min readMay 9, 2024
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As our industries continue to grow and evolve, so should our skill development. It only makes sense that we must enhance our knowlege as the business environment changes. Keeping up with this skill refinement is crucial so that we can remain competitive, collaborate with others, and lead our organizations towards attaining their objectives.

In 2024 and beyond, here are some of the key business skills that will be most useful for you to develop:

  • Technical skills. Fine-tuning your technical skills is always a moving target because of the continuous advances in technology. Staying abreast of these changes, however, is vital in today’s world so that you can take advantage of opportunities and minimize weaknesses both internally and externally.
  • Soft skills. As our reliance on technology has grown, our soft skills have also simultaneously weakened. This is an unfortunate phenomenon because soft skills are crucial for performing well in a business environment. The soft skills that you should particularly focus on honing are active listening, collaboration, communication, professionalism, empathy, and time management.
  • Change management. The one thing that remains the same in our work environment is the fact that it is always changing. In order to lead and excel in modern organizations…

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Charlene Walters, MBA, PhD
Charlene Walters, MBA, PhD

Written by Charlene Walters, MBA, PhD

I'm a Business Mentor, Writer/Ghostwriter, Corporate Trainer, Curriculum Consultant, TV host and Author: https://www.ownyourother.com

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