Monday, May 1, 2023

Influenceofprofessionalism

Being a professional starts with a professional mindset, builds professional capabilities, to get the work done resourcefully and achieve high-performance results

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unning an organization is complex, it is difficult to have a highly competitive organization without high-caliber professionals and competitive talent. It doesn’t mean if you had a profession, you would be a well-respected professional with high professionalism. 

What are the root causes to make professionals lack true professionalism? Do they lack independent thinking or critical reasoning? Professionalism is an important quality for today’s multigenerational, multicultural and multi-devicing workforce, and it takes time and energy to build it up. So it’s important to keep shaping advanced mindsets, sharpening relevant skill sets, and reaching to the next level of professionalism.

Being professional means you present a certain quality that shows a high level of value & excellence: Many people do wrong things, not because of ignorance, but because of poor judgment, due to the lack of comprehensive knowledge or insight, unconscious bias, or preconceived notions. Business professionals should bring value to their work, community, societies, their organizations need to value them with mutual trust relationships, discover their hidden value, invest wisely, refine their talent, and focus on value-driven management practices.

The command and control management worked in an industrial age often limited people’s potential to unleash their potential. It’s important to explore how value is created & delivered. Valuing someone implies respecting them, encouraging them to be who they are, understanding them via empathy, and aligning their value with the organization’s value propositions. Professionals with a growth mindset can think independently with professional capabilities to make sound judgments, generate multifaceted values, and solve problems professionally.

Professionals have a winning mixture of professional traits and competencies: Professionalism is composed of competence, confidence, working ethics, self-esteem, humility, creativity, learning agility, and emotional excellence, global empathy. It usually takes time to sharpen professional skill-sets, and build differentiated competency. Therefore, the learning-agile mindset, enriched knowledge and years of experience count, strong discipline and constant practices count; the great attitude to learn from your frustration and failures count.

People need to keep exploring their talent, broadening their relevant skills and deepening their expertise to solve more complex problems and get higher than expected results. Professional development takes an iterative learning-doing-improving cycle that expands into the new horizon extensively; so people need to keep their mind open and their energy high, to continue unleashing their potential and move up toward the upper level of professional competency with core focus and fluency.

Professionalism is a foundation to bring wisdom in the workplace:
Different employees have different expectations for the work they do and the workplace they go to. The right people with high professionalism make a positive influence on corporate culture and bring wisdom to the workplace. But people lacking professionalism bring a negative attitude, unhealthy competition, change inertia, generate more problems rather than solving them.

Professional workforce means positive atmosphere, growth mindsets, intellectual stimulation, culture of learning, open-minded leadership, and collaborative & professional working relationship. Filter out the negative vibe and keep professionalism shine, to improve organizational effectiveness. People need to keep exploring their talent, broadening their perspectives and deepening their interdisciplinary expertise, building, integrating, and reconfiguring their professional competencies.

The more complex our world becomes, the more complex skill-sets, differentiated competencies we need to practice varying professional works. Being a professional is inherently and inextricably interwoven with high levels of “professionalism”; being a professional starts with a professional mindset, builds professional capabilities, to get the work done resourcefully and achieve high-performance results. Being an independent thinker, an insightful feedback giver, an effective decision-maker, a high-performance doer, a resourceful problem-solver, a humble learner, a trustful colleague, a courageous innovator, a risk preventer, etc.

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