Your behavior affects your success and the success of your classmates.  This skill station addresses professionalism.  Unprofessional behavior is often easy to identify-we have all experienced situations that made us feel uncomfortable.  Luckily, professionals are equally easy to identify-they are competent and knowledgeable and behave in ways that promote everyone’s success.

Think about professionals you have interacted with.  As a group, define what professionalism looks and sounds like.   Fill in the table below.

Professionalism

Having trouble?  Think about these questions.  How do professionals build trust and respect?  Promote each other’s success?  Ensure that goals are met?  Present themselves?

Practice professionalism as you work in class today.  Identify professional behaviors displayed by members of your group.

Group Processing:

1. What professional behaviors have you seen in your group members?

2. What could you do to improve your professionalism?

3. Based on your responses to the previous questions, rate how well your group displayed professional behaviors today.

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