Are you a professional?
What does it mean to be a professional? The textbook definition is: a person who does a job that needs special training and a high level of education. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? Being a professional encompasses many things – from skillset to personality to aptitude. Here are a few common characteristics of a true professional:
- Do you learn every aspect of the job or do you skip the learning process whenever possible?
- Do you carefully discover what is needed and wanted or do you assume what others need and want?
- Do you look, speak and dress like a professional or are you sloppy in appearance and speech?
- Are you focused and clear-headed or confused and distracted?
- Do you catch mistakes and fix them, or do you ignore and hide them?
- Do you remain level-headed and optimistic or do you get upset and assume the worst?
- Do you use higher emotional tones: enthusiasm, cheerfulness, interest, contentment; or lower tones: anger, hostility, resentment, fear?
- Do you persist until the objective is achieved or do you give up at the first opportunity?
- Do you produce more than expected or just enough to get by?
- Do you strive to give high-quality service or do you give medium to low?
These are the questions that separate the professionals from the amateurs. The first step to making yourself a professional is to decide you ARE a professional! Then ACT like one!
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