SERIES: “THE ABC’s OF PROFESSIONALISM”
25 Attributes of a Professional
When you think of top-notch professionals, who pops into your mind? Who do you know personally that best exemplifies “professionalism? ” What characteristics do they have that most other people are lacking?
This series contains my top 25 attitudes, characteristics, skills, virtues, and disciplines of a 21st-Century professional. Based on the list below, it would appear that professionalism is a lot of work. Is all of this stuff really necessary? To paraphrase the legendary Zig Ziglar, the answer is, “No. You can be mediocre without it.”
| The ABC’s |
Title | Date |
| A = Attitude | “Professional Attitude” | 3/26/09 |
| B = Behavior | “Professional Behavior” | 8/18/08 |
| C = Conversation | “Constructive Conversation” | 8/20/08 |
| D = Dress | “Dress Up” | 8/25/07 |
| E = Entertainment | “That’s Entertainment!” | 8/27/08 |
| F = Finish | “The Finish Line” | 8/31/08 |
| G = Grace | “Amazing Grace” | 9/4/08 |
| H = Heart | “The Heart of it All” | 9/7/08 |
| I = Integrity | “Integrity and Honor” | 9/25/08 |
| J = Joviality | “Joy Means Grinning Inside” | 10/3/08 |
| K = Kindness | “Let’s Not Forget Kindness” | 10/18/08 |
| L = Language | “Watch Your Language” | 10/24/08 |
| M = Mistakes | “Make More Mistakes” | 10/30/08 |
| N = Netiquette | “Your Netiquette is Showing” | 11/18/08 |
| O = Optimism | “Optimize Your Optimism” | 11/20/08 |
| P/Q = P’s and Q’s | “Mind Your P’s and Q’s” | 11/26/08 |
| R = Responsibility | “Assume Responsibility” | 11/30/08 |
| S = Service | “Service With a Soul” | 12/18/2008 |
| T = Teaching | “The 3 E’s of Teaching” | 12/29/2008 |
| U = Understanding | “Seek Understanding” | 1/20/2009 |
| V = Vision | “Dream Baby, Dream!” | 1/28/2009 |
| W = Work Ethic | “Elbow Grease” | 2/1/2009 |
| X = eXcellence | “Your Excellency!” | 2/5/2009 |
| Y = Youth | “Make Way for Youth” | 2/13/2009 |
| Z = Zone | “Zoning In” | 2/22/2009 |
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
The ABC’s of Professionalism (blog series) has been revised and expanded into a book entitled Professionalism from A to Z: 26 Qualities of a Career-minded Person. Here’s what you can expect:
- Revised, enhanced, updated and expanded chapters
- More quotations-lots!
- Quotation sources added
- Quotations indexed
- Illustrations
- Additional chapters
- The entire series of essays in one convenient volume
I just found your great post online and included it in my blog post for today, where I write about fighting procrastination. It can be found at http://pearlinparis.vox.com/library/post/fight-procrastination-day.html
Thanks for the inspiration.
Pearl