A concise reference and guide that will help anyone in their personal and career growth. Professionalism really is for everyone and in five key areas this book provides examples and describes how individuals can set themselves apart from the crowd and benefit from being true professionals. Includes the Ten Commandments of Professionalism.

Are some technically competent professionals who work hard and long hours 'true professionals' or are they just cruisers? In this deeply illuminating call to arms, David Maister, the world's premier consultant to professional service firms, vigorously challenges individuals to examine closely the meaning of their work and reach beyond their grasp. The pursuit of the highest standards, Maister argues, is the primary road to commercial success. He presents a visionary reconception of professionalism that encompasses a lifelong dedication to self-improvement, a personal commitment to excellence, and a true spirit of service to clients. Looking first at the individual professional, Maister dares those good corporate citizens who 'do their duty' to discover what they truly love to do. Turning to the institution, Maister focuses on what he calls the 'instability' of professional service firms today, and offers advice on how to invest in skill building. David Maister's message is a recipe for success and for professional satisfaction making TRUE PROFESSIONALISM a worthy successor to his previous writings.

Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results. This book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration. Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including: Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students. Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism. Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.

Defines the critical need for business professionalism, outlining the ideals behind the theory. Provides pragmatic solutions to modern problems, and opportunities to develop reflective practices that will result in personal transformation and growth.

Workplace Professionalism for Profitable Results Are you looking for a roadmap to achieve professionalism in the workplace? In this step-by-step guide you will learn cutting-edge information that will provide practical advice every professional can use to manage work and business situations. Professionalism: New Rules for Workplace Career Success has the secrets every professional can use to be effective and impact the profitability of the organization. "Career success begins with professionalism." -PATRICIA DORCH IN PROFESSIONALISM YOU WILL LEARN: Characteristics of a professional employee and how to avoid unfavorable traits. How your accountability affects the productivity of the organization. How to use integrity principles in the workplace. How to adopt simple business and dining etiquette tips. How to manage your body language, mind and words to improve communication. How to create an appearance to influence opinions and perceptions of others. How to use successful strategies to manage difficult behaviors. How to use personal branding tools to make you stand out. ABOUT THE AUTHOR PATRICIA DORCH is an in-demand career expert, strategist and sought after speaker. Patricia is the author of Job Search: New Get Hired Ideas, Tips and Strategies for 40 Plus and Six Figure Career Coaching Advice: The Ultimate Guide To Achieving Success. Patricia specializes in maximizing the potential for professionals to get hired, demonstrate professionalism in the workplace and get promoted in today's ultra competitive job market.

Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ideology. He also discusses how historic and national variations in state policy, professional organization, and forms of practice influence the strength of professionalism. In appraising the embattled position of professions today, Freidson concludes that ideologically inspired attacks pose less danger to professionals' institutional privileges than to their ethical independence to resist use of their specialized knowledge to maximize profit and efficiency without also providing its benefits to all in need. This timely and original analysis will be of great interest to those in sociology, political science, history, business studies and the various professions.

The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities--who know teaching and leadership inside out--set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation update of core themes from the authors' bestselling book, "What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?" [This book was co-published with the Ontario Principals' Council.].