Top skills a
meeting planner should have included organizational, communications,
and negotiation skills, as well as the ability to be flexible and detail-oriented.
Some of the other top skills included creative thinking, patience,
managing stress well, and humor. Those types of skills are really personality
traits, which would be very difficult to detect in a job interview
or to evaluate in a performance review. It was intriguing that some of
the top skills listed were skills that one could not really learn, but rather
individual character traits. Is it possible that these were traits the respondents
would use to describe themselves and what skills they use to be
successful, rather than what traits are needed in general to succeed?