Over the next few weeks I will be looking at some of the essential qualities that contribute to defining what professionalism is and how choosing to adopt and live by its requirements will deliver huge benefits for individuals and for organisations. CHOOSING EXCELLENCE We are all used to the idea that society applauds excellence in [...]
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Professionalism Essentials No 1 – Excellence
Monday, July 5th, 2010Thriving not just surviving
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010Well, after yesterday’s budget, it’s official! It’s going to be tough and it is going to stay that way for a few more years. I don’t think that’s a surprise for anyone. However, we are all going to have to ride this out and find a way to prosper personally and professionally, whatever is going [...]
PROFESSIONALISM & POLITICS STILL DON’T MIX!
Thursday, April 29th, 2010I am not a political animal and I promised myself that this election would not appear on these pages but sometimes you just have to admit that enough is enough. The behaviour of The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (to give him his full title) demonstrates two professionalism issues [...]
WANTED – Brave, forward thinking NfP organisation
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Back in 2008 Kevin Kelly put forward the idea of 1KTF – One Thousand True Fans (http://bit.ly/2PQqaE) – as the sustainable number of individuals required to support an artist to survive by buying their artistic output or products directly. These fans are, in turn, surrounded by much larger numbers of Lesser Fans who are not [...]
PROFESSIONALISM – OPPORTUNITES TO CONNECT
Friday, February 19th, 2010While I prepare a workshop to be delivered at the CHASE conference (*) in London next week, I have been giving a lot of thought to what the benefits will be for those who attend the session. Let’s face it, most of us have to justify the time taken for attendance at conferences of this [...]
Professionalism attributes – Somewhere over the rainbow
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010We are all very familiar with the classic 1939 film The Wizard of Oz – on our screens again over the holidays – and especially the most enduring song from the film ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’, sung by Judy Garland. In the years since the film first appeared it has become accepted as the ‘standard’ [...]
True professionalism – Read more, read often
Friday, December 11th, 2009We are all subject to fairly staggering amounts of information each day, coming at us from an ever increasing range of sources. Have you ever considered how much of this ‘stuff’ you actually read and ingest, finding relevance for how you live or work, or storing it away for further use later? The mixed drivers [...]
True professionalism – Respect and trust
Monday, December 7th, 2009I was recently wandering around in the LinkedIn listings looking for someone’s email address and stumbled across the entry from an ex work colleague. The entry had me rooted to my chair as the detail was claiming that this individual had been in a particular role for several years whereas I know that it had [...]
Professionalism at work in the holiday season
Friday, December 4th, 2009Just as I was settling down on the train yesterday for a nice relaxed ride home, I overheard the lady next to me say to her travelling companion ‘Did you know Christmas Day is three weeks tomorrow?’ Talk about panic stations! Am I ready – I am not! Have I done anything about anything – [...]
So funny but so sad!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009When I found this picture recently my first instinct, like yours no doubt, was to laugh uproariously. It is hilarious. However, it only takes a split second to then realise that it is one of the saddest and most damning indictments of laziness and total lack of professionalism that I have ever seen. We definitely [...]
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