Sachin Patel opens by stating that the most important skill for someone starting a professional practice is communication—especially public speaking. He emphasizes that public speaking skills apply broadly (clients, prospects), and recommends clear, concise one-sentence descriptions of what you do and the problem you solve (an elevator pitch).
Because I want to talk about the most important skill to develop when you're starting out and that in my opinion the most important skill in your practice is the art of communication and public speaking. So public speaking isn't just speaking in front of an audience when you're speaking to anybody. That skill is going to come in handy when you're communicating with your clients or even your prospective clients. That skill is very necessary for you to have so becoming a more effective communicator and is probably a really important skill to have early on in your practice because that does the way you communicate does a lot of the heavy lifting for you as opposed to trying to, you know, over explain or over articulate what it is that you do. Get clear on how you can present yourself to people so that in one sentence it becomes clear to them what you do and what problem you solve. So clear, concise communication is probably a very important skill to have in the beginning.
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