Elements of professional working

... with a strong bias to Information Technology (IT)

Every now and then you hear phrases like "she is a real professional", "this brochure is done professionally" or "this project was not carried out very professionally".

Everybody seems to know what that is: professional work, until I asked the question "What does working professionally really mean"? The answers were scare. But by the time I could collect a number of elements filling this word with meaning.

I grouped these elements into

Attitude
Methods
Tools

Sources of this compilation

• An e-mail discussion on the list of former SHARE Europe members during 1997.
• Input from various «personal skills» sessions at the SHARE Europe conferences 1982 to 1994.
• The work as an officer in that organisation (limited time is a good teacher!).
• My own working experience both as an employee and self employed at D+DD.
• Poem Work and Play not only from the top of my head.

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