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Personal & professional excellence
The document discusses several aspects of personal and professional excellence, including integrity, learning from mistakes, effective communication, living in the present, commitment, flexibility, and balance. Some of the key points made include: 1) Integrity involves behaving in a way that is consistent with one's values. 2) Viewing failures as learning experiences helps one grow and succeed. 3) Thoughtful, honest communication with positive intent is important. 4) Focusing on the present moment makes the most of one's time.
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Focus on personal qualities like integrity, learning from failure, commitment, and balance for personal and professional success. Encouraging deep self-reflection on purpose, challenges, and motivations for personal growth and goal achievement.
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- 2. Personal Excellence Identifying Long term choices and goals Professional Excellence Resilience during challenge and loss
- 3. Personal Excellence: Producing your best in any given situation, within or without a conducive environment to do so; Strive to be better than last time, every time.
- 4. Integrity LearningFrom Mistakes Speaking with good purpose Live in the present Commitment Ownership Flexibility Balance
- 5. 1.INTEGRITY –Match behavior with values Demonstrate your positive personal values in all you do and say. Be sincere and real.
- 6. Living inintegrity means that everything we say and everything we do are true reflections of what we value, what’s important to us. Think about what your behavior says about you. Does it clearly show others what you value? Do you show up as honest and committed, or dishonest and indifferent? Are you spending your time with the people and activities you value, or is your focus elsewhere?
- 7. 2.FAILURE LEADSTO SUCCESS – Learn from mistakes View failures as feedback that provides you with the information you need to learn, grow, and succeed.
- 8. Rather thanviewing failure in a negative way where we put ourselves down and think WE are a failure, think of failure as a valuable learning experience. When we look at our mistakes with a view to learning from them, rather than sending ourselves negative messages, we are on the path to success.
- 9. We maybe reluctant to try different things because we’re afraid of failing. Fear of failure does nothing but keep us in our comfort zone where we stick with the familiar, the “safe” choices where we don’t “risk” another failure. When we step out of our comfort zone—when we’re willing to try something new—that is when we take a step toward success. The only real failure is not learning from our mistakes. The key to success is to look carefully at what went wrong, change what we did the first time, and try again by applying what we learned.
- 10. 3.SPEAK WITHGOOD PURPOSE – Speak honestly and kindly Think before you speak. Make sure your intention is positive and your words are sincere.
- 11. Words arepowerful! They have the power to uplift and enlighten or put down and depress. A few cutting words spoken in a moment of anger can affect us for a long time, perhaps even a lifetime. On the other hand, a few kind words can make a very positive difference in how we feel about ourselves … sometimes for a lifetime.
- 12. What wesay to others—and to ourselves—can have a huge impact. Speaking with good purpose is about always considering the intention of our words. It’s about communicating directly, clearly, honestly, and with a positive purpose.
- 13. 4.THIS ISIT! – Make the most of every moment Focus your attention on the present moment. Keep a positive attitude.
- 14. Life isfull of distractions and opportunities to do something else, something other than what we’re doing now. Many of us spend a lot of time thinking about those other things. Instead of making what we’re doing now “it” our focus is often elsewhere—on things we wanted to do, could have done, should have done, or want to do “sometime.” Whenever our thoughts are occupied with something other than what we’re doing, we miss what’s going on around us in the moment … while we’re waiting for the next moment to arrive the present moment slips away.
- 15. 5.COMMITMENT –Make your dreams happen Take positive action. Follow your vision without wavering.
- 16. Commitment isthe breathtaking moment of making a compelling decision, jumping in, and going forward with gusto. Once a commitment is made, indecision is eliminated—there is no more “Should I or shouldn’t I?” … “Will I or won’t I?” A commitment is not made lightly—it’s about making a decision so strong that there is no going back … like a skydiver who has jumped from the plane!
- 17. 6.OWNERSHIP –Take responsibility for actions Be responsible for your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions. “Own” the choices you make and the results that follow.
- 18. Ownership isour willingness to take responsibility for the choices we make. When we take responsibility for our choices, others know they can count on us and we earn their respect. If you tell a friend you’ll meet him at a certain time but you’re two hours late because you were hanging out with another friend, take responsibility for your choice. Don’t make up excuses like “I couldn’t help it … Billy just wouldn’t let me go.” Take ownership by saying, “I was wrong not to meet you as planned or call you when I realized I’d be late.”
- 19. Ownership isa whole-life concept. We can take ownership of our education, our relationships, our fitness, our fun—all areas of our life. And when we take ownership we take pride and feel confident and fulfilled.
- 20. 7.FLEXIBILITY –Be willing to do things differently Recognize what’s not working and be willing to change what you’re doing to achieve your goal.
- 21. Flexibility isthe willingness to try something different when we realize that what we’re doing isn’t working. Many times a day we are faced with situations that are different from what we had originally planned. One way to deal with these situations is to be rigid and continue to do things in the same way over and over—another is to handle them with flexibility. Being flexible is responding to changing or new situations in ways that move us forward.
- 22. BALANCE –Live your best life Be mindful of self and others while focusing on what’s meaningful and important in your life. Inner happiness and fulfillment come when your mind, body, and emotions are nurtured by the choices you make.
- 23. When we’rein balance we make time for the things that are important to us. Staying in balance is an ongoing process about choices. We’re constantly making choices about what we do, what we say, how we feel, what we think, etc.
- 24. Balance isnot about rigidly devoting equal time to everything that matters to us, and it’s not about totally immersing ourselves in one area of our lives to the exclusion of all others. Balance is about considering everything that’s meaningful and important to us when we make choices about how we spend our time and energy. When we find the right balance we are happy, healthy, productive, and fulfilled.
- 25. Produce high-qualitytechnical work Communicate your work clearly Keep to a schedule Recognize your professional limits Invest in furthering the profession Affirm your co-workers Enjoy your work, and help others enjoy it The quest
- 26. This isprobably the most obvious and least controversial aspect of professional excellence. Few would argue against the need to deliver accurate, technically correct work, and to do so consistently, as a foundation for professional excellence.
- 27. While weare engrossed in a fascinating project, it is very easy to forget that the rest of the world is largely ignorant of what we are doing. We tend to assume that our management, and the world in general, will be as knowledgeable as we are. We therefore tend to communicate at an "expert" level.
- 28. Professional excellencemust include realism in our claims, and a commitment to fulfill promised schedules and deliverables. This applies both to the paid work that we undertake, and also to other professional activities, such as publications, which also carry schedules and deadlines.
- 29. We losecredibility if we overstate our abilities and experience. Moreover, we lose an important opportunity to build constructive relationships and "team spirit."
- 30. The continuationand progress of the profession depend in large measure on our willingness to provide the same help and encouragement to those who follow us. The profession also depends on our ability as a group to make a positive contribution to society — and upon society's perceptions of what we do. By participating in activities that help in these directions, we are furthering the profession as a whole. This is also an important part of professional excellence
- 31. None ofus can live or work in isolation. Our ability to perform in any area of life depends largely on the cooperation of those around us. Thus, professional excellence must include the ability to evoke a cooperative spirit in those around us. It can be done by helping others to feel good about themselves and the contribution they are making. Words of appreciation and encouragement have a very positive impact. Tasteful humor is also useful.
- 32. The workwe do carries a lot of responsibility. It can be very demanding. If we are to survive emotionally, it is essential that we maintain a good balance, and don't take ourselves too seriously — not all the time, anyway. A sense of the absurd and a spirit of fun should be an integral part of our daily work.
- 33. Life isnot all about work. What we do, and the commitments we take on, are very individual, but we all have and need some kind of life outside of our work
- 34. Developing professionalexcellence is a lengthy and challenging process, both for individuals and for organizations. There are bound to be errors and misunderstandings along the way, and our goal must be to learn from them, leave them behind, and move forward in our quest.
- 35. Who areyou? How would you describe yourself? What is your purpose in life? Why do you exist? What is your mission? What are the achievements you are most proud of? What are you most grateful for in life?
- 36. Do youlove yourself? Why or Why not? What opportunities are you looking for? How can you create these opportunities? What are the times you are most inspired, most motivated, most charged up? What did you do during those times? What’s stopping you from pursuing your goals? …Why? How can you overcome them?
- 37. Who arethe 5 people you spend the most time with and are those people enabling you or holding you back? How can you change someone’s life for the better today?
- 38. What wouldYou do ? If you have one year left to live, If you have one month left to live, ◦ If you have one week left to live, ◦ If you have one day left to live, ◦ If you have an hour left to live, ◦ If you have one minute left to live
- 39. What isone thing you’re going to do differently after this session?