Throughout the course of her career, Donna Scarola, chief people officer at real estate investing platform Parcl, has successfully climbed the corporate ladder. But as exciting as moving up in a company can be, there are many challenges no one talks about.
“People don’t prepare you for the complexity of what I like to call the human skills that are required to lead teams,” she says. “So first there’s the job skills, like can you do the job? Are you competent at getting the work done? But then it’s, can you scale the work? Can you inspire and influence others in a way that can bring a team together and actually get things done?”
