Here's how you can excel in a consulting career with high self-awareness.

Truly knowing thyself is of high importance in any profession for that matter especially in consulting career, you need it more as you need to give a solution that suits your clients’ needs & without knowing how to elicit the needs/requirements you can’t make a great consulting career. Being able to give the best solution comes with knowing the subject first. People with high EQ do deep learning & have a deep sense of awareness of the topic. Then they communicate effectively by doing effective speaking & active listening. Also they constantly validate their adequacy of knowledge through constant learning. When they don’t know they say it openly without trying hide or give false promises. These are the traits of high level of self awareness.

1. Leverage Your Strengths - Identify Core Strengths:Use self-assessment tools or feedback to identify what you excel at, such as analytical thinking, problem-solving, or communication. - Tailor Your Role: Focus on projects and tasks that align with your strengths, making you more effective and efficient in your work. 2. Enhance Emotional Intelligence - Practice Empathy: Understand and empathize with clients' and colleagues' perspectives, which can improve your ability to build strong relationships. - Manage Stress: Develop coping mechanisms, such as mindfulness or time management techniques, to handle high-pressure situations effectively.

Being attentive involves being conscious of your feelings, knowing what triggers them, and recognizing the implications for your behavior and decision-making. It serves as the basis for several aspects of the ability to appreciate someone, such as empathy, temperance, and interaction skills. Being aware of your surroundings helps you better regulate your emotions, communicate, and form more solid relationships with people – all skills that are essential for both professional and personal success.

Apesar de algumas pessoas acharem o termo “autoconhecimento” desnecessário, este é essencial para o nosso desenvolvimento e escolhas ao longo da vida. Comece reservando um tempo regularmente para se desconectar do mundo exterior e se conectar consigo mesmo. Durante esse tempo, reflita sobre seus valores fundamentais, identifique suas cren?as e examine suas motiva??es mais profundas. Explore suas paix?es, interesses e habilidades naturais. Pergunte a si mesmo o que realmente o motiva e o que você deseja alcan?ar tanto na vida pessoal quanto na carreira. Fa?a um diário/caderninho de insigths/ideias, para testar ao longo dos dias. Quanto mais consciente, mais possibilidades de “acertos”, satisfa??o, assim como de mudan?a de rota.

Yes, I completely agree with the opening statement. I'll add that self-awareness takes practice. Just as we learned to eat with a spoon, dress ourselves and use our cell phones, a self reflective deep-dive into our beliefs, thinking, and "what drives" us, while recognizing our "emotional triggers," is not a one-time-action for meaningful outcomes to occur. Our attention to what is processing within, which includes our somatic experience and, the eventual harvesting of insight, must become patterned through practices. And as was written, "This insight allows you to maintain composure and professionalism, even in high-stress situations," and who doesn't want to experience that?!

Cómo ingeniero de formación, llegué a pensar que estos temas sobre las emociones y las ciencias que hablaban sobre el cerebro y el comportamiento humano (ahora neurociencias), estaban muy alejados de mi ámbito profesional. Sin embargo, después de estudiar mucho para entenderlo, comprendí que antes de ser ingeniero (arquitecto, matemático, físico, contador, licenciado, etc.) soy un ser humano que funciona de acuerdo a cómo el cerebro está programado, e inclusive de cómo se reprograme. No existe el control de las emociones sino la gestión. Si entendemos esto y aprendemos a usar nuestra compleja maquinaria, podemos modificar muchas cosas a nuestro favor en relación a qué sentimos, cómo nos comportamos y cómo responder en lugar de reaccionar.

In a consulting career you must have vocation for service, focus on client's real needs and show competence to help them. Show your EQ by putting in their shoes, understanding what is the problem, showing empathy, listening capacity, realizing what they expect from you and showing that they can trust you. Your self-knowledge makes you sharper in understanding the client needs and confidence to show yourself as you real are, behaving authentic and trustworthy. In practice, you must show how to respond professionally in challenging situations without it affecting you personally. To do this, you must know how to distance yourself and focus on solving the problem, showing the client that they always have an ally in you.

The twenty century is forcing us to return to the self. There has never been a time in history when the self has become so sacrosanct and central to everything we do. In this century, the self is the only thing that keeps us from falling apart. In terms of the needs and demands of the twenty first century, the essence was captured in Alan Toffler’s famous statement that: “The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”. The outcome of this kind of learning, self/personal mastery. The kind of pedagogy we need for self/personal mastery is self-learning/teaching or autodidacticism. There is greater acknowledgement that we are our own best teachers

Get intimate with yourself. Specifically, your thinking. Thinking can be either a bridge, or a block to your confidence, unique self-expression, and overall experience. We know that. Thinking is 24/7. Which thinking feels good? Which doesn't? You can tell. Watch what doesn't feel good. Examine it like a scientist in a lab. Get intimate with yourself! Note your findings. An interesting outcome from the intimacy of noticing the thinking that doesn't feel good is, just noticing it beneficially changes it! All to say, true intimacy with your thoughts is a surefire way to stand on the solid-ground of your confidence.

Establish meetings by creating a pleasant, trusting and distraction-free environment that makes it easier for your client to focus on the matter for which they have hired you. This environment facilitates active listening, rapport and a deeper understand the client's context, generating empathy and enabling the client to express themselves freely and without pressure, in a climate of trust and security in which vulnerability has a place. To increase your empathy, delve deeper through questions until you get to the root of the problems. Show yourself open and committed to solving the problem with the client collaboration. Make your comments positively and move forward by establishing concrete agreed-upon actions to advance the project.