Here's how you can adapt to changing industry trends using emotional intelligence.

All of these soft skills are profoundly important throughout one’s career. Each skill pings off of the other, so a lack of maturity in one area will negatively affect the others. However if you focus on growth and maturity in each, your career will benefit exponentially. Often, this can benefit your career more than specializing.

Soft skills are often more important than hard skills in the video industry. This isn't to say that technical skills aren't crucial, but it's essential to remember that there are others with similar abilities. If you're difficult to work with, you won't be part of the crew for long! Unfortunately, film schools often don't focus on teaching soft skills, so it's important to set aside time to learn about them. Developing your soft skills will benefit you in all areas of your life!

Adapting to changing industry trends requires emotional intelligence. Monitor trends, recognize your emotions, and assess your strengths. Empathize with others, stay flexible, and communicate effectively. Manage stress, seek support, and embrace challenges. Reflect and adjust your approach as needed. By using emotional intelligence, you'll navigate uncertainty, build strong relationships, and thrive in a rapidly changing environment. Stay informed, adaptable, and open to growth, and you'll turn industry trends into opportunities for success.

If you are able to grow in your EI and encourage growth in your team or collaborative partners, creativity will be the result of the efficiency that this breeds. Being able to problem solve and make decisions based on what is best for the project and not have ego/ emotions get in the way opens up opportunities for new found creative ideas

Video production is creative work, so when people change plans it can often be draining for the production people, especially if the new vision is still coming to fruition. Clients will often say that they don't want videos a certain way, but they may not know precisely what they want. This may mean that you have to accept the fact that the video has taken a new direction, and then lead the charge on it. It's a very difficult switch to make, and for most people it is absolutely exhausting, but it is very rewarding when you can pull it off successfully. It is very helpful to remember that you can ask questions. If the client wants to change the video, they probably do have a vision of sorts, and they may just need help bringing it to life.

It’s especially important to continue to learn. It requires self awareness, discipline and humility to be able to understand that there is always more to learn and that the ways in which we have done things, possibly for years, could be more efficient for example. Now more than ever before there is a plethora of information that is accessible to all, removing any excuse from continual growth and development.

Video production is a team sport so yes being emotionally intelligent and having a growth mind set is very helpful but also team diversity can give creative edge to your production. Having people who come from different and unique backgrounds and experiences can bring bring fresh perspectives.