The corporate way is long and full of dangerous curves. If you want to become the head before dying in the attempt not only need outstanding skills, and possibly an MBA. What will really boost your career is the sum of a series of attitudes that illuminate your personality and your strengths.

Most important, experts say, is to enjoy what you do inside and outside the company. From there you can build, step by step, a brilliant career. How? These tips will help you get your way and gain ground in the battle for leadership.

MULTIFUNCTIONAL KNOW
Interésate for activities that go beyond your training. If you are a designer, ask yourself what the business model of the company. If your computer is the training, learn the production processes or management. Companies of all sizes increasingly more value to executives with multiple skills. The reason is simple: integrate solutions from different points of view and are able also to lead multidisciplinary teams.

If the'90s were looking for experts on business productivity, today's multi-functional skills are a great asset to any executive. The worst mistake, at present, is transformed into an expert who is not looking beyond vocational training. This does not mean that one does not have specialized professional future, but to cultivate a profile "closed" today is not an attitude that gives you become the next leader of your organization.

The rapid integration of international markets that took place in the world and especially in Latin America in the mid-90s, forcing companies to integrate a structure different cultural and professional models. To this we must add the interconnection of various industries such as media and technology, or engineering and biology-which today merged or power.

It is not difficult to see a doctor now studying an MBA, to become director of a clinic or leading a multi-health project or a chemical engineer at the helm of an insurance company.

Last tip: interésate in the company as a whole, identify what your business model and promuévete as a professional capable of working in multicultural and multifunctional. Question, study and Become a great observer inside your organization.

BECOME A NOTE
Certainly, the most important thing is that you're a professional who knows what it does and that can move throughout the company (see: "I know multifunctional). However, none of this if you will not get the leaders of the organization put their eyes on you.

If for some reason you have not yet achieved, there are techniques to draw attention positively.

Interacts with key people. Find how to participate in projects that allow you to work closely with key executives. If this is not possible, due to rigidities in the structure of the company or jealous of any supervisor, ingéniatelas always to have a conversation topic that is of interest to the person you want to visit (whether personal or professional).
Read everything you can about the company. Most important, always, is the preparation. If you study and you will transform into an expert on what happens in your organization, sooner or later you think will be a "reference". This undoubtedly will be the leaders you have in mind.
Become a partner. If you have talent to relate easily, find ways to help people or projects that are outside your area or department for action. This will help you expand your knowledge of the company will make more people know you and you become famous partner. There is nothing better for the senior management of a company know to whom to entrust a new project. If you have a reputation for partner, no doubt thinking of you.
Last tip: the key is to make note is subtle and elegant. Exposes your thoughts when you see the opportunity, but do not be aggressive or you endorse explicitly in the error of a colleague. You may win that battle, but you will make enemies who can lose the war. Being loyal is the best advice.

Communicate CLEARLY
A well-told joke, albeit boring, brings smiles. The ability to communicate clearly remains an essential skill when it comes to moving up the corporate world. In a society saturated with information, understanding what is happening, process and communicate the reality of your ideas is more difficult than a couple of decades. If you manage to transform into a professional who is able to argue strongly challenge your ideas and certainly other opinions, you're in an excellent position to win in the marathon corporate meters.

The best way to communicate clearly is what you say. Read, read and read. Train, looking for information to help you understand your business and the environment in which it moves to discover and worry about the issues that matter to your superiors.

There are courses to improve your oral and written expression. If you think necessary, take it. It is not necessary that you become an expert speaker or writer. Remember that what is most important to communicate well is to know fully what you mean.

Some tips:

Sort your ideas: Fill and list each one, according to their importance.
Cuestiónalas: ask if they are really valuable ideas.
Construct arguments: when you clear the value of an idea, desarróllala to strengthen it.
Abridge: Choose key ideas and write short paragraphs and very explanatory.
Read aloud: although you have to submit a written report, this exercise will help you to identify grammatical errors or unnecessary repetition.
Consider the audience: ten clear who will read or hear your proposals and to help you choose the correct language and expressions (if highly technical or very formal).
Last tip: it is vital that you consider the audience. Be clear who will read or hear your suggestions, as this will help you choose the correct language and expressions (if highly technical or very formal). If you know also what they would like to hear, you can focus on your solutions to these issues.

UNDERSTAND THE FINANCE
Any professional who aspires to reach the peak of a company can do if you do not understand finance. Although you do not like, you must understand the economic fundamentals of the business: costs, tax structure, financial risk, cash flow, inventory turnover, and a long etcetera. In times when cost reduction is a constant, not make the mistake of forgetting that the first rule for a good business is to care costs. And the only way is by understanding the company's finances.

Need not be an expert: How to discuss finances with people using their own language. That they will trust you and will strengthen your case. Lee monthlies (just enough to know what is happening in markets) and carefully studied the financial statements of your company (especially the semiannual or annual reports, if any).

Do not be afraid to ask what you do not know. In this area, ask your evident interest in understanding the true heart of the company. In some countries began to gain strength the figure of "financial coach" means a person who helps you understand and get familiar with this world.

Last tip: it is very difficult to say without looking properly. There are courses and textbooks are free online and have published many books on "Finance for non-specialists." If you can, attend courses and seminars. Many banks or insurance companies, with some frequency, perform for free.

ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE
Probably, your time and reputation are the most important assets that need to manage in your career. How to cherish and strengthen them? Establishing a working agenda, which define your career goals and personal short and long term.

To do this, answer the following questions:

Where do you want to be in the next two, three or five years?
What you need to get there?
Who could compete with you in this plan?
Is it possible to develop this plan in another organization?
The answers will help you set priorities and time and, in parallel, allow you to look around you (to identify potential competitors or other companies which develop your skills).

The other key point to define an agenda, is to learn to manage time. The fundamental argument is simple: you can not organize the future if we do not control the present. Therefore, it is important that you learn to organize your daily activities.

Tips for taking advantage of your time:

Establishes a daily agenda, giving an approximate duration of each event. The experience you will refine this.
No job is constantly changing. Every change forces you to spend time looking for documents, tools, focus the mind, or simply "change the chip." Focusing your energies on the task they perform.
Do not check email every 5 minutes. And allows you to maintain close contact with customers and partners can become a great distractor.
Fewer meetings, the better. If you intend to do so, try to propose a "preliminary exchange of views" by e-mail. That will make you gain time.
Avoid instant messaging. Some work is a prerequisite, but in other activities only opens the door to friends and relatives with much spare time try to steal yours.
Organize your workplace and your computer so that you will find, in a fast and accurate, the information you need. Ordering the desktop is a great opportunity to distract and lose focus.
Last tip: do not commit to what you can not meet or what is not your responsibility. How many times have you given to work until very late because you would not say no to a friend? How many more you are doing the work that corresponded to another? You can not do everything, you should not do everything. This is the key to control your day to day. If you manage to do so, you're in excellent position to establish an agenda for professional and personal development of medium and long term.

TRAINING FOR A SUCCESSOR
If you animas: train more than one. The important thing is to find someone that will hopefully allow you to delegate tasks more complex. Inasmuch as you progress, it will. And vice versa. In addition, make life easier when you decide to apply for a new project or move up the corporate structure. Any CEO will prevent the game from the "short sheets": Cover your face when you open up your feet. If you have a successor with a recognized talent, increases your chances to grow. And as if that were not enough, you can get a reputation for "trainer of talent."

Last tip: do not transform into a victim of your own success. Looking for a No. 2 that will hopefully be better than you and I feel real happen. This would not only stimulate you intellectually, but you will always surround the best talent available. Requires only one thing: loyalty.

This proposal, NO REQUESTS
There is a saying common: people who do not produce results, provide an explanation. The moral is simple: the most important thing is to bring to fruition what you've committed to do. However, the preliminary step to the implementation is planning. To do this, you must earn the trust of your superiors. And at this point, the best advice is to offer suggestions, not demands.

Does the moral? Never start a presentation (especially if you're promoting yourself, or an idea for a post candidatearte think) saying that you need to succeed. First say what you are going to achieve and how you will do it. In the end, only at the end, presents your requests. The strategy here is to gain the attention of the receiver through a specific offer: "I can raise sales by 15%," "I know how to improve the automation process of the plant, I found a way to reduce production costs" .

Last tip: if you find an area of opportunity for the company, Volunteer for the project. And if you see that there is a problem you can solve, Volunteer to fix it. You will earn such proactivity fame and prestige. The great detail is to learn to handle the language: do not focus on everything you need (the "requests"), but they can offer. A solver is better seen that an executive of "checkbook easy.

A MENTOR
Probably this great list of tips was presented on a daily , your mentor, that person is you have to train like you do when you're the No. 1. It is difficult to find a mentor, but is often more difficult to accept that you need someone to guide you.

There are companies and independent professionals who offer personal coaching services. Have proved a useful tool for many professionals, at all hierarchical levels and in different industries.

If this is not convinced and want to follow the way "traditional", the main thing is to find a natural approach with someone you trust and you are sure it has the necessary experience. It is difficult to know everything and you may be aware of everything. A coach will help you also get a reasonably objective view of your location and your performance in "reality."

Last tip: do not have to do everything they tell you a mentor, but do not forget you're looking for help for a new vision of things and trust that person. If you do not think, do not waste time with her. The objective is to enhance your performance and not necessarily strengthen your ideas. Keep open mind to criticism and listen to many "no".