PRACTICE CAREER

PROFESSIONALISM
LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. INTEGRATE PERSONAL OBJECTIVES WITH

ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS.
2. SET AND MEET WORK PRIORITIES
3. MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
INTEGRATE PERSONAL OBJECTIVES
WITH ORFGANIZATIONAL GOALS
 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
 Personal goals affect how an employee
performs. While they can serve as
motivation to be more productive and
more successful, they can also cause
conflicts between staff or between
work and home.
 Businesses are most successful when
employees’ personal goals are aligned
with corporate goals. This can be
difficult to do at times, but it is
possible.
 PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
 Most of the time, personal goals
should still be work-related, such
as achieving a sales volume,
working a number of hours,
organizing a specific project, or
improving a specific skill. Finding
common ground between these
personal goals and your
organizational priorities can be
hugely productive.
 CREATE STANDARDS AND
GOALS
 Before you can accurately
evaluate employee
performance, you need to
establish a system to measure
that performance. For each
employee, you need to come
up with performance
standards and goals.
 PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
 Performance standards
describe what you want
workers in a particular job to
accomplish and how you want
the job done. These standards
apply across the board, to
every employee who holds
the same position.
 GOALS
 Unlike performance
standards, goals should be
tailored to each employee;
they will depend on the
individual worker's strengths
and weaknesses. Your workers
can help you figure out what
reasonable goals should be.
SET AND MEET WORK
PRIORITES
 In any responsible position in any company that you ever
have, it is a given that there will be more work to do than
there are hours in the day.

 Priorities have to be established based upon what is best

going to meet your company’s needs.

 Properly determining priorities requires understanding the

various tasks that need to be done, how they relate to your
company’s goals and how they compare to other tasks that
also appear important.
ABC PRIORITIZING
 The most common form of prioritizing tasks is by
a simple ABC method. In this method, you make a
list of all the tasks that you have to complete, and
assign them a letter code:
“A, B and C”
A - HIGH PRIORITY, VERY IMPORTANT TO GET THIS
DONE

 high priority items | very important items |

critical items | immediate or very-near
deadlines and/or a high level of importance
otherwise (high stakes)
B - MEDIUM PRIORITY, THIS SHOULD GET DONE
 medium priority items | can
be quite important over time |
not as critical as “A” items but
still important to spend time
engaging in
completing/working on them.
C - LOW PRIORITY, IT WOULD BE NICE IF THIS
COULD GET DONE

 low priority items at this time

| few negative consequences
if left undone at this moment
(low stakes).
It is assumed with this method that you
know how important the various tasks are in
regard to your company’s and department’s
goals. Otherwise, the priorities you place on
the individual tasks really have no value.
To use this approach, you would create your
to-do list and then go through and make
these marks beside each. To make it even
easier to see, you could color-code. If you
don't like letters, create a series of symbols
that stand in for "A," "B," and "C."
 MAINTAIN PROFESSIONAL
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
 In rapidly changing environments, both organizations
and the people who make up those organizations must
engage in continual growth, or risk becoming obsolete.
All too often,

 Professional Growth is a hit-or-miss process.

 Learning opportunities selected are often those that

meet immediate needs rather than future needs.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 Helps build and maintain morale of staff members, and
is thought to attract higher quality staff to an
organization.
 It is a process of improving and increasing capabilities of
staff through access to education and training
opportunities in the workplace, through outside
organization, or through watching others perform the
job.
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
 Requires the continuous
acquisition of knowledge
and skills through study,
instruction,
investigation, and
practice. It is an on-going
process.
CAREER
 The pursuit of consecutive, progressive
achievement especially in public,
professional, or business employment, is a
personal choice that entails commitment,
perseverance, and a plan.
 CAREER PLANNING
 Involves visualizing what you want to be doing in the
future within your profession.

 Enables professionals to set goals and define specific tasks

that must be accomplished in order to reach those goals.

 Considers options, and alternatives. Flexibility is important

as we cannot know the future.
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