Social skills. A necessary tool for government actors

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of social skills of a group of Popular Council presidents to face the demands of their professional performance, recognizing the need to develop these skills for community management that corresponds to the demands of the Cuban context. The objective of the research was to characterize the development of social  

skills for community management in the presidents of the Popular Council of the Consolación del Sur municipality of Pinar del Río. An exploratory descriptive research was carried out from a concurrent nested mixed design with a dominant qualitative model, in which empirical methods such as documentary analysis, the Social Skills Test and the semi-structured interview were used. The sample was made up of the 12 presidents of the Popular Councils of the Consolación del Sur municipality. The result was shown that social skills are not explicitly analyzed in the governing documents of the work of these government actors and that the level of development of their social skills is low. As the main conclusion, it was determined that it is a felt need of the subjects of the sample to promote the development of social skills, since these become resources that manage to integrate the necessary resources to make the community management that the role of Council president demands more efficient Popular