What is best – a great skill or a great attitude?

Try this exercise when you have a few minutes.

Don’t start into it unless you have about 10/15 mins to complete it and do each part as you read it, that is, don’t read all the way to the end before you start or you will not get the best out of it.

1)      Write down one, two or three names of people that you admire or who have the success that you would like to have.

2)      Write beside each name the attributes of the person. Ie ambitious, educated, friendly, hard working, generous, decisive,  articulate, organised etc.

Do the above 2 steps before moving on to step 3

3)       Draw 2 columns down your page. Write a heading of “Skill” over one column and a heading of “attitude” over the other. I define skill as something you can learn (in school for example) and attitude as the outlook or way of thinking that you have. The way you view things.

4)      Write each of the collective traits of your chosen people into the column you feel they belong in ( skill into skills column and anything that is not a skill into the attitude column and see the results.

In my experience it has been without exception that the attitude side will account for the highest number of attributes.

What does this actually mean?

I believe that a weak skill base with a great attitude will produce more than a great skill base and a bad attitude every time.

If you’re looking for a job keep this in mind.

Talk soon

Jim B