Professional Behaviours: Professionalism in business all about is showing up when you said you would. It’s about doing what you said you would do. It’s about being willing to listen and to really hear what is said. Professionalism is the ability to be agile in how you respond the information you are given. There is […]
Winter Solstice Blessings! And, It’s all about the nourishment right now. The shortest day and the longest night before we welcome back the light. This is the time to reflect on what has gone, to be grateful for what it brought and to begin, just begin, to seed the very new beginnings of the next […]
Professionalism At Work is all about Showing up! By ‘showing up’ I mean really being present for the task or person at hand. This means the development of the ability to absolutely park your personal life in a healthy way. By healthy I do not mean denying any problems you are facing in life, I […]
Professionalism Definition: What’s your definition of professionalism? A dictionary defines it in the words below. Mine is way more and than the attributes of a sector or the way I earn my living. My definition is about loving what I do and all of that it encompasses. “1: the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark […]
This is the definition of professionalism by Oxford Dictionaries “The competence or skill expected of a professional. ‘the key to quality and efficiency is professionalism’” When I was in my 20s I really wanted to be seen as professional. And I struggled with it so much because I didn’t seem to understand the rules and […]
Work Environment Bristol: What I notice here is the sheer diversity of work environments available in this city. Based on the traditions of trading and banking, Bristol is a very wealthy city, not merely in fiscal terms but also in the richness of ideas and creativity. With the media consistently telling us this is THE […]
Work Environment survey: When you survey your work environment do you feel frustrated? Yep! I recognise that! You see my external world does not always match what I had been hoping for in my internal world. When I cannot see the difference I seek, impatient-me can seek to sulk. When I survey my work environment […]
Do your work environment ideas differ from those of others? Good! The most sustainable professional environments are built on authenticity. “If you don’t ask you don’t get” was a phrase I was raised with. If you don’t risk volunteering your ideas then your environment can never be authentic. None of your co-workers is a mind reader. You […]
I like the following work environment quote. What it does for me is enable me to know that, whatever my next career move is (& believe me I have made a few!), I am not alone. “In the startup work environment, you get to have a relationship with your boss, the investors, and the key […]
Are you very particular regarding your work environment temperature? I am too, but, in this case, I refer not to the mercurial temperature. I refer to the temperature of the relationship with the people I collaborate with. There are two things in particular that define this temperature. Within these environments, I seek to work with people […]