Working hard and hard is not enough to make serious professional advances. It is also required to constantly improve their qualifications and professional level. By regularly working on yourself and using various resources for personal growth, over time you will become a real professional.
Instructions
Step 1
Start your professional development work with careful planning. Make a detailed, step-by-step plan of action required to achieve your professional goals. Indicate not too tight deadlines for these stages; they will serve as a kind of landmarks, "beacons" that will not let you go astray. You should not unnecessarily tighten the schedule of classes, sometimes it is convenient to introduce the so-called "floating sessions", when the time for self-preparation can be postponed or changed.
Step 2
Learn and use in your work and professional training one of the time management systems. Such time management, of course, will not be able to increase the number of hours in a day, but it will allow using time resources more efficiently and rationally. For example, take the time tracking system of the Soviet biologist Alexander Lyubishchev as a basis.
Step 3
Write down in a separate diary every day how much time was spent on the main professional activity, how much time was spent on auxiliary, on reading literature, and so on. Make monthly calculations to identify time resources and activities where time is wasted or wasted.
Step 4
To become a pro in your line of business, be sure to take the time to prepare yourself. You can improve your qualifications by methodically and regularly studying periodicals in your specialty, watching educational videos. Be sure to use the specialized seminars held in your city or region, do not miss the opportunity to take advanced training courses.
Step 5
In many cases, being a professional means the ability to transfer special knowledge to other, sometimes the most unexpected, areas of life and work. To do this, you need to be aware of new developments in the field of art, in particular, fiction. Getting to know the best works of science fiction literature helps a lot to improve the general outlook and liberate thinking. This is especially useful when your professional activity is related to science and modern technology.
Step 6
If you want to be spoken of as a professional, do not miss the opportunity to learn new skills, including in specialties related to yours. For more effective participation in the affairs of the company, make the most complete picture of the work of neighboring departments, understand your place in the technological chain or production cycle. This will help to more consciously fulfill their professional duties.
Step 7
Do a little more every day than your job descriptions tell you to do. This is a sign of professionalism and will certainly be taken into account by your colleagues and managers.
