From the course: Emotional Intelligence for Cybersecurity Professionals
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Finding gaps in your skillset with self-awareness
From the course: Emotional Intelligence for Cybersecurity Professionals
Finding gaps in your skillset with self-awareness
I've already shared with you my favorite motto, there is no correction without connection. When considering if there are gaps in our skill set, we'll need to first assess the things we want and need out of our careers and lives and connect with our future selves. Have you ever pictured yourself leading a board meeting, solving a difficult problem during a crisis, or accepting a shiny cybersecurity award? These daydreams are how our brains connect with our perception of success. And in order to determine what success looks like for us as individuals, we need to first be aware of our opportunities to improve. A pet peeve of mine is when cybersecurity leaders tell a security professional, you need to work on your soft skills, like how you talk to people, sometimes without providing actionable steps on how to do that. These things take time. Emotional intelligence is something we start working on at a very young age, and depending on the environment we grow up in, our approach to…
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