Managing Volume– This aspect of professionalism basically identifies qualities of how to deal with a problem of large volume of tasks/emotions/competitions.Happened to read Subroto Bagchi’s, (Gardner “Mind Tree”) book ” The Professional”.

Making a boring and routine job interesting.

Ability to say NO, when s/he doesn’t have anything to add or learn from a task.

Maintaining a to-do list of both personal and work related tasks.

Physically healthy and having control on diet.

Professional Qualities– This includes following points:.

Self Awareness– This means a true professional must be humble, authentic, self-observant, and should be able to take feedback in a constructive way. A true professional should take charge of difficult situation when need arises and must feel responsible.

Finally, faced with difficult choice, we ask ourselves: can my act stand in public scrutiny without causing embarrassment to me and my family?.

When in doubt, we do not go ahead and do what suits us we seek counsel.

Where rules do not exist, we use fair judgment.

Integrity– The meaning of the term can be summed up in following four sentences:.

There are 6 aspects of a true professional: Now coming back to the meaning of the word ‘Professional”, it comes from a latin word ‘ professio’, which means an oath taken upon entering a religious order. 200 and was awarded by chief minister of Karnataka for the community service he did and was well acknowledged by society also. For the rest of his life, Mahadev only did the work of burying unknown bodies for Rs. Mahadev grew up in and around hospital premises and by chance took up profession of burying unknown dead bodies when one day police paid him Rs.

For little Mahadev, it was not possible to understand what death means and suddenly he was left alone in this world, when one man from the hospital took Mahadev with him and gave him food, shelter and protection, necessary for an infant to survive. Her mother started working as daily wage earner, until after few days she feel sick and died in a government hospital. ‘The Professional’, written by Subroto Bagchi is going to emphasize on what we all claim to be in this 21 st century, “Professional”.īefore I start with the meaning and the different behavioral aspects that a professional must possess, I think it’s imperative to discuss story of a man named “ Mahadev”.Īs is the trend in our developing country, people from villages migrate to cities in search for earning livelihood, a small boy named Mahadev, came with his mother to Bengaluru.

The professional book by subroto bagchi