Self-awareness

Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self Awareness allows you to understand other people, how they perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them in the moment.

• The basis of personal identity

"I think, therefore I exist, as a thing that thinks."

SWOT analysis

Values

• Values can be defined as broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. As such, values reflect a person’s sense of right and wrong or what “ought” to be. “Equal rights for all”, "Excellence deserves admiration", and “People should be treated with respect and dignity” are representative of values. Values tend to influence attitudes and behavior.

List of Values

• The following list of values will help you develop a clearer sense of what's most important to you in life, as explained in the article Living Your Values.

• Acceptance • Accessibility • Accomplishment • Boldness • Clear-mindedness • Cleverness • Commitment • Discipline • Empathy • Flexibility • Growth• Guidance • Honor • Leadership

Attitude

• An attitude is a hypothetical construct that represents an individual's degree of like or dislike for something.

• Attitudes are generally positive or negative views of a person, place, thing, or event— this is often referred to as the attitude object.

• Attitudes are judgments. They develop on the ABC model (affect, behavior, and cognition).

Professional Ethics

• The concept of Professional Ethics is partly comprised of what a professional should or should not do in the work place.

Things to Do

• Do return value to your customer (internal and external) in all business decisions

• Do return value to your community locally and globally

• Do deliver quality in a timely fashion

• Do be honest in your work by telling the client, customer, or boss that the task or project you are working on will not meet the target date.

• Do ask for help in order to meet the project or task deadline. A professional will not feel slighted if he or she acknowledges that he or she needs help.

• Do start using words like we, us and ours. A professional never works at cross-purpose with the employer.

• Do provide respect to others.

Things to Not Do

• Do not tell the client, customer, or boss that you can do something when you cannot.

• Do not use words like me, mine, you and yours.

• Do not steal from your employer.

• Do not underestimate your capabilities