1. Quality Mentality
A professional who displays the best performance possible. He deliberately does not display the second best (less than the best) because I know it really was suicide profession. Seek professional himself is always in the best end (cutting edge) area of expertise. He did it because the nature of the profession is to achieve a real perfection, through the limits of the practical impossibility, to quench the thirst of humans would be ideal quality: strength, beauty, justice, kindness, usefulness.
Clearly, professionalism is not synonymous with higher education. The main thing is the basic attitude or mentality. So a stone carver at the corner of Bali for example, although not graduated from high school, but able to carve out your heart to produce a work of carving the finest and best, is actually a professional. An elementary school teacher in Papua lout who teach with dedication for the intelligence of all pupils is a professional.
On the other hand, a doctor who handle patients with haste because the patient is not pursuing a professional quota. Similarly, a professor who teaches at random, examine the origin so, train students to sacrifice too much quality, not a professional. Or, an engineer who intentionally reduced doses of the building materials for greater profits is not a professional.
So first mentality is a professional high standard of work oriented to the ideal perfection of quality.
2. Altruistic mentality
A professional is always motivated by a noble desire to do good. The term here means both useful to society. Complete understanding of this aspect well in first mentality, namely quality. Both in this second mentality means goodness, which is dedicated to the benefit of society. Professions such as teachers, doctors, or lawyers are obviously very beneficial to the community. Similarly, stockbrokers, computer programmers, or investment consultants. Consistent with this understanding, there can be no professional thief or a professional killer. Might steal a technique or method of killing is a sophisticated and powerful, but they acn as professionals is a confusion of terms.
Quality of work of a highly professional, technically, but the value of work itself is dedicated for the good of society that is driven by kindness, even with a willingness to make sacrifices. This is altruism.
On the other hand, paradoxically, because high-quality work, based on high technical competence, then the people appreciate the services of professionals with high too. That is, rewards for working professionals are always costly. Demand for their services is higher than availability. That is what caused employee benefits professionals to be high. Hence also, the social status of professionals in terms of monetary generally located in the middle layer to the top. This is not because the demand for professionals in the class seated, but as a logical result of his professional existence.
So the second characteristic is the presence of professionalism in the attitude of altruistic motives and philosophy works.
3. Serving Mentality
Professionals do not work for self gratification without a care in the vicinity. Professionals do not do masturbation profession. Conversely, satisfaction comes from a constituent, customer, or user of professional services has been satisfied in advance via the interaction of work.
Born professionals because the needs of the customer community. Sorang maestro Michelangelo's painting class had just one fixed subscribers, namely the Pope, the Vatican authorities, who wish to be satisfied.
A strictly professional even fix a monetary value on professional services. By this means the sharpness of professional courage to stand in the court of rational bargaining with its customers. So a professional should be able to serve customers well. And the professionals are expected to do it consistently with all sincerity and humility as the loyalty of its customers apreasiasi throughout his professional career.
Then the third characteristic of a professional worker is a genuine attitude of service and humility to their customers and core values his profession.
4. Mentality Learners
In the field of sports, a professional player, before entering full-time, first received education and in-depth training. And throughout his career he received his ongoing exercises endless.
So also in other areas, a professional worker is one who has received special training and education in the field of profession. Even for professions that have been established, before a person given the right holds professional status, he must take a series of tests. If passed before he received a professional certification from the association profession.
High competence can not be achieved without a high learning discipline and sustainable. And because society demands higher and higher, no doubt, learn and practice life must be cultural professionals. Without it the value of serving the professional workers increasingly irrelevant. Can not even touch with the surrounding reality. That's when a worker failed to become a professional.
So the fourth characteristic of professional workers is the heart that makes learners continue to grow and refine his work competence.
5. Service mentality
A professional worker consciously choose one area that will work as a profession practiced. This choice is usually closely linked to interest in the field, there is even a sort to serve in the field. At first, the choice was influenced by the talent and ability which she used as a calculation of the success chances there. But then developed a love relationship between the workers with jobs.
This relationship is similar to bachelor-girl relationships are falling in love. The more they know, the love grew thicker, and ultimately strengthen the marital relationship. Likewise, a professional, the more he comes to his profession of love. And when his heart was set right so he decided to just going out for it to complete and unified together in a bond of eternal love. Thus, a full service professional in love with his chosen profession.
So the five characteristics of a true professional is the establishment of a loving dedication to his chosen profession.
6. Creative Mentality
A professional sportsman fully mastered the art of playing. For him the game is not merely a technical matter, but also art. He went from a candidate to be a maestro like Rudy Hartono in badminton, Pele in soccer, or Muhammad Ali in boxing. Meanwhile, amateur players, never reached the level of art; origin master the basic techniques then to join.
A working professional, after mastering the technical competence in the field, continue to develop the art stage. He'll find elements of art in his work. He will appreciate the aesthetics of his profession. Her eyes were wide open to see the richness and beauty of a practiced professional. Onwards, perspective, beauty, and this property will trigger a new excitement for the professionals who in turn enable him to be creative, inventive, and innovative.
So the six traits of a professional worker is a creative work is born from the artistic the field of profession.
7. Ethical Mentality
A professional worker, after choosing to "married" to his profession, accept all the consequences of his choice, both sweet and bitter. Any profession must be involved to cultivate moral discourse that are relevant to the profession. For example the legal profession to cultivate morality around justice, the medical profession to cultivate the morality of life, business profession to cultivate the morality of profit, and so on with other professions.
So a true professional would not be betraying the ethics and morality of his profession for money or power for example. Treason profession of prostitution also known as the professionalism of disloyalty on the basis of professional morality.
On the other hand, if the profession is appreciated and praised people, he also would accept the normal. Professionals is not a hermit who does not need money or power, but they accept it as a form of public recognition diabdinya sincere.
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