صفحة 1
COMMITMENT
Whoever deals with you in any kind of business, he needs to feel that you are committed to your work, and that you are committed to him as your client and then he will give you his full trust and he will never stop dealing with you as long as you keep this commitment.
As when you are committed to your business or work, you will do whatever it takes to make it succeed.
So if we are all committed to our work what else should we take care of in order to be professional and successful?
1. Competence. You’re good at what you do and you have the skills and knowledge that enable you to do your job well. And this is very important; otherwise, you will never be able to deliver your job correctly.
2. Reliability. People can depend on you to show up on time, submit your work when it’s supposed to be ready, etc.
3. Honesty. You tell the truth and are upfront about where things stand. And this is basis of trust. And remember some people may just totally block you for the first lie.
4. Integrity. You are known for your consistent principles.
5. Respect For Others. Treating all people as if they mattered is part of your approach. And here, you will have to remember never to disrespect anyone, especially whenever you are with people whom you meet for the first time, because simply you may be telling a silly joke with disrespect about southern people in your first visit to a very important person to find out after you finish your joke that your host is a southern!
6. Self-Upgrading. Rather than letting your skills or knowledge become outdated, you seek out ways of staying current.
7. Being Positive. No one likes a constant pessimist. Having an upbeat attitude and trying to be a problem-solver makes a big difference.
8. Supporting Others. You share the spotlight with colleagues, take time to show others how to do things properly, and lend an ear when necessary.
9. Staying Work-Focused. Not letting your private life needlessly have an impact on your job, and not spending time at work attending to personal matters.
10. Listening Carefully. People want to be heard, so you give people a chance to explain their ideas properly.
11. Be ready for your work: Readiness for work includes proper clothing, proper set up, etc.
12. Match your environment: Birds can’t swim and fish can’t fly, because birds belong to air and fish belong to water, so you have to speak the same language of your place, you have to follow your people’s habits and respect their traditions.
13. Do your homework: The worst thing that might happen when you visit a client and during your visit you ask him: What is the nature of your work?, as many clients might answer you saying: if you don’t know what I am doing, how can you help me?
14. Define well your target: You have to define your goals and target very well, as if you establish a company then think what will you be selling or doing, most likely you will fail. A friend of mine once asked me what should I call my new company? I simply asked him: what will this company be doing? He said: not determined yet, I simply answered: You may call it anything then!
15. Give the right impression: when you walk into a bakery, it has to look as bakery, because if it looks like a clothes shop you will never accept to buy your bread from there. So we have to give the right impression about ourselves, and we have to remember that first impression is the last impression. And we have to give the proper image about our business, as if we are trying to sell a small company a certain product, it will not help us saying that we have sold it to the biggest company in town, because simply the owner of the small company will say: ok then it is not for me because I am not as big as them!
As when you are committed to your business or work, you will do whatever it takes to make it succeed.
So if we are all committed to our work what else should we take care of in order to be professional and successful?
1. Competence. You’re good at what you do and you have the skills and knowledge that enable you to do your job well. And this is very important; otherwise, you will never be able to deliver your job correctly.
2. Reliability. People can depend on you to show up on time, submit your work when it’s supposed to be ready, etc.
3. Honesty. You tell the truth and are upfront about where things stand. And this is basis of trust. And remember some people may just totally block you for the first lie.
4. Integrity. You are known for your consistent principles.
5. Respect For Others. Treating all people as if they mattered is part of your approach. And here, you will have to remember never to disrespect anyone, especially whenever you are with people whom you meet for the first time, because simply you may be telling a silly joke with disrespect about southern people in your first visit to a very important person to find out after you finish your joke that your host is a southern!
6. Self-Upgrading. Rather than letting your skills or knowledge become outdated, you seek out ways of staying current.
7. Being Positive. No one likes a constant pessimist. Having an upbeat attitude and trying to be a problem-solver makes a big difference.
8. Supporting Others. You share the spotlight with colleagues, take time to show others how to do things properly, and lend an ear when necessary.
9. Staying Work-Focused. Not letting your private life needlessly have an impact on your job, and not spending time at work attending to personal matters.
10. Listening Carefully. People want to be heard, so you give people a chance to explain their ideas properly.
11. Be ready for your work: Readiness for work includes proper clothing, proper set up, etc.
12. Match your environment: Birds can’t swim and fish can’t fly, because birds belong to air and fish belong to water, so you have to speak the same language of your place, you have to follow your people’s habits and respect their traditions.
13. Do your homework: The worst thing that might happen when you visit a client and during your visit you ask him: What is the nature of your work?, as many clients might answer you saying: if you don’t know what I am doing, how can you help me?
14. Define well your target: You have to define your goals and target very well, as if you establish a company then think what will you be selling or doing, most likely you will fail. A friend of mine once asked me what should I call my new company? I simply asked him: what will this company be doing? He said: not determined yet, I simply answered: You may call it anything then!
15. Give the right impression: when you walk into a bakery, it has to look as bakery, because if it looks like a clothes shop you will never accept to buy your bread from there. So we have to give the right impression about ourselves, and we have to remember that first impression is the last impression. And we have to give the proper image about our business, as if we are trying to sell a small company a certain product, it will not help us saying that we have sold it to the biggest company in town, because simply the owner of the small company will say: ok then it is not for me because I am not as big as them!
صفحة 2
16. Don’t waste time: We always have limited time and limited resources so we have to use our limited resources within our limited time properly otherwise we will be out of time and out of resources eventually.
17. You can’t do everything: You can’t claim that you can do everything because nobody does, so you have to focus on your own core business and build up diversified business if you need step by step. And as long as you grow up you will have to have the proper assistants and partners around you.
18. Show your strengths: whenever you are competing against others, never try to under estimate others or mentioning your competitors’ disadvantages because smart people will know that you are trying to cover up your own weakness and disadvantages.
19. Be Special: When you are special everyone will notice you and will remember you. But being special is not being a strange or odd.
20. Be Pioneer: Being a pioneer will give you a big lap between you and the others from one side and will always keep your first position in minds. But being pioneer does not mean being obsolete.
21. Isolate feelings: Feelings have no place at work; otherwise, things will turn into a complete miss. So we can’t work with the only people that we like and we can’t delay work or lose business because we don’t like some people.
22. Don’t look behind: unless you are trying to learn from your mistakes do not ever turn around and cry on lost opportunities. Do your work properly and keep faith in God and destiny.
23. Don’t give up: If you do your homework properly and you took care of everything, then you have to be patient as fish will not jump into your net once you placed it in water. And there is no tree that can give fruits over one night.
24. Be realistic: Don’t over or under estimate results and study well the current situation.
25. Look ahead: To see what is coming before others you should always keep one eye ahead.
26. Play it the right way: Don’t rush things up and don’t depend on work arounds because they will not last forever.
27. Depend on Quality: Quality will last unlike relations and common interests, so we have to build up real qualities in our work for our work to be unique and last more.
28. Keep updated: We are in a dynamic life and pace of this life is accelerating every day, so we have to keep updated and know what is going on in our market.
29. Believe in yourself: Confidence is a magical word and without being confident in yourself you will never be able to gain the trust of anyone, so the more we believe in ourselves the more trust we can gain from others.
30. Love your work: Many people do not choose their field of education and then their field of work, so before giving up what you already have and try something else, do your best to love your current field of education or field of work, and if you reached the dead end, then you have to do something that you really like. Loving your work is the key of your success and it is not must for being professional but it will help much to reach professionalism easier.
17. You can’t do everything: You can’t claim that you can do everything because nobody does, so you have to focus on your own core business and build up diversified business if you need step by step. And as long as you grow up you will have to have the proper assistants and partners around you.
18. Show your strengths: whenever you are competing against others, never try to under estimate others or mentioning your competitors’ disadvantages because smart people will know that you are trying to cover up your own weakness and disadvantages.
19. Be Special: When you are special everyone will notice you and will remember you. But being special is not being a strange or odd.
20. Be Pioneer: Being a pioneer will give you a big lap between you and the others from one side and will always keep your first position in minds. But being pioneer does not mean being obsolete.
21. Isolate feelings: Feelings have no place at work; otherwise, things will turn into a complete miss. So we can’t work with the only people that we like and we can’t delay work or lose business because we don’t like some people.
22. Don’t look behind: unless you are trying to learn from your mistakes do not ever turn around and cry on lost opportunities. Do your work properly and keep faith in God and destiny.
23. Don’t give up: If you do your homework properly and you took care of everything, then you have to be patient as fish will not jump into your net once you placed it in water. And there is no tree that can give fruits over one night.
24. Be realistic: Don’t over or under estimate results and study well the current situation.
25. Look ahead: To see what is coming before others you should always keep one eye ahead.
26. Play it the right way: Don’t rush things up and don’t depend on work arounds because they will not last forever.
27. Depend on Quality: Quality will last unlike relations and common interests, so we have to build up real qualities in our work for our work to be unique and last more.
28. Keep updated: We are in a dynamic life and pace of this life is accelerating every day, so we have to keep updated and know what is going on in our market.
29. Believe in yourself: Confidence is a magical word and without being confident in yourself you will never be able to gain the trust of anyone, so the more we believe in ourselves the more trust we can gain from others.
30. Love your work: Many people do not choose their field of education and then their field of work, so before giving up what you already have and try something else, do your best to love your current field of education or field of work, and if you reached the dead end, then you have to do something that you really like. Loving your work is the key of your success and it is not must for being professional but it will help much to reach professionalism easier.