Whatever your passion is in your personal and work life, professional tools and skills are an important and critical element for success. We often think of carpenters and plumbers or even doctors and lawyers as requiring the right tools and skills to do their jobs right. Well think again. We all need them, whatever our professions. Communication. Negotiation. Relationship. Interpersonal. Time management. Marketing. Sales. Each of us must possess an effective set of our own Tools For Life in our back pocket.
I just got a good friend and colleague of mine, Tom Bartley, started writing his own blog called Tools For Life. Tom always seems to have lots of things to share, and he’s one of those guys who can talk your ears off, in a good way. Professionally, Tom possesses a wealth of information in the energy, environmental, transportation and high tech fields and is a problem solver. He’s a result-oriented professional always looking for innovative and new ideas to overcome obstacles, while stimulating creative thinking and inventive solutions in people around him. But in life in general, Tom can also give you tidbits and nuggets of wisdoms from interesting points of view and from his substantial knowledge of how work and life actually work, or should work, either separately or together.
What do you consider some of the most important tools or skills necessary to succeed in work and in life? I’d bet that if we make our own lists, we’d find that those in the “work” column would be just as applicable in the “life” column.
As marketers, we should keep our skills, tools and knowledge sharpened in both our work and life, because oftentimes they are one and the same. If not, we’re setting ourselves up with a formula for failure.
Do you have a favorite tool or skill you find critical to success in both your work and life?
If you have to pick just 3 to fully develop for maximum effectiveness, what would they be?
On the other hand, what would be a critical tool/skill that you wish you have or had developed?
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