Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Innersophistication

Contemporary business leaders and professionals need to become more sophisticated in understanding the people, business and social ecosystem, to ensure that they have the intellect, judgment, and personality to contribute in the right way.


With unprecedented digital convenience brought by emerging technology and abundant information, blurred geographical or functional/industrial borders, and fierce competitions, 

It is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without competitive professionals who demonstrate sophisticated talent that implies contextual intelligence, profundity, versatility, and consistency.
 
Contextualization: The business world becomes informative, interdependent, and over-complex, sophisticated professionals can read hyperconnected digital sentiment, dig beneath the superficial layers, see the other side of the coin, have learning agility to seek out new knowledge, facilitate continuous dialogues to solve complex problem. It's crucial to “read between the lines,” to gain the understanding of a specific cause and effect, as the first and the most important step in creating the relevant context to make a more lasting solution.

Perception gaps, knowledge gaps, innovation gaps generate barriers and become insurmountable problems for us to reach the high ground of collective progress. The sophisticated leaders and professionals with strong nonlinear logic have the willingness to embrace different or contrasting views and share the thoughts as to how it can address the issue under consideration without berating anyone for their views, for getting to the heart of the matter based on the identification of relationships and behaviors within a model, context, or scenario, in order to make sound decisions and choose solutions to move forward.

Versatility: Fierce competition and frequent disruptions are the new normal. Professional sophistication is on versatility and flexibility to deal with interconnected relationships smoothly and solve complex problems seamlessly in response to unpredictable or unanticipated circumstances. Leadership sophistication is based on trying to determine which competencies or capabilities should be used in which combination, and with what level of weight for each, for every different situation, to amplify influence.

Now more often the business is inextricably connected with technology, and functional/process barriers are starting to weaken, allowing leaders and professionals to pursue their aspirations and to apply their skills and expertise to their greatest effect. They demonstrate sophistication and creative abilities to reframe the circumstances or conditions around problems, and solve them innovatively. In fact, real societal progress is made through the work of sophisticated talent with progressive and foreseeable minds and responsible behaviors.

Consistency:
Sophistication is based on making consistent and continuous progress, rather than perfection. Business professionals with sophistication are consistent in the habit of learning, acting, and problem-solving to build their professional competency. The sophisticated professionals with innovative, proactive and progressive profiles need to have a cohesive consistency with their “true-selves,” showing originality and competency.

Being consistent during the good and tough moments is difficult for leaders and professionals as they advance in their career, but it directly impacts the culture of trust. Sophisticated professionals with consistency are consistent in the habit of learning, de-learning and relearning, can keep consistent by having intellectual curiosity, a growth mindset, a learning attitude; and a set of cohesive capabilities; to continue improving professionalism. Sophisticated managers should have consistent ratings based on their experience; goals should be clear and attainable; regular feedback is a must and incentives should be comparable to expectation set.

Contemporary business leaders and professionals need to become more sophisticated in understanding the people, business and social ecosystem, to ensure that they have the intellect, judgment, and personality to contribute in the right way. They build multi-dimensional competencies to formulate creative, unconventional alternatives or solutions to resolve problems; they can reinvent themselves proactively and amplify digital influence via practicing high professional knowledge power continually.

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