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111 Examples of Professional Image

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Professional image is how you are perceived at work. This includes perceptions of coworkers, management, customers, investors, partners, industry peers and in some cases, the public. Image can often differ from reality in the short term but in the long term, image tends to match your professional behavior, contributions and style. The following are illustrative examples of professional image both positive and negative.
Admirable -- does good
Agent of Change
Arrogant -- promotes self in unrealistic way
Attire & Hygiene
Authoritarian
Avoids Accountability
Avoids Competition & Conflict
Avoids Decisions
Bad with Customers
Brings Personal Problems to Work
Brings Politics or Religion to Work
Bureaucratic -- throws up red tape
Candid & Honest
Clears Issues
Compassionate
Competitive -- drive to win
Complacent
Consults Appropriate Stakeholders
Cooperative
Creative
Cronyism -- promotes friends
Defeatist
Delivers Quality Work
Demonstrates Attention to Detail
Demonstrates Useful Know-how
Detached from Operational Realities
Difficult Person
Diligent
Disengaged & Aloof
Dishonest
Disloyal
Disorganized
Dull / Overly Serious
Emotional / Unstable
Empathic & Understanding
Engaged
Ethical
Experienced
Good Negotiator
Good Storyteller
Good with Customers
Hands-off
Hard Worker
Hostile to Customers
Hostile to Management
Hostile to Partners
Influential -- source of big ideas that have been implemented
Ivory Tower -- smart but ineffectual
Key Employee
Knowledgable
Loyal
Manages Expectations -- communicates exactly what they will do and not do
Mediocrity
Meets Commitments
Micromanager
Narcissistic
Negative & Critical
One-upmanship
Open & Flexible
Organized
Outgoing / Vocal
Overly Democratic -- won't make a decision
Overly Political
Overoptimistic -- sets ambitious goals that aren't met
Passive & Disconnected
Passive Aggressive
Performs Critical Role
Permissive Manager -- respects competence of team
Personable
Persuasive -- good communicator
Poor Work Ethic
Popular
Positive & Constructive
Pragmatic
Productive
Pushover -- overcommits when pushed
Quiet / Reserved
Reasonable
Reliable
Resilience & Grit
Resists Change
Respectful & Polite
Resting on Laurels -- talks about experience but hasn't done much work recently
Revenue Generator
Risk Taker
Secretive
Sets Inconsistent Direction
Sidelines Stakeholders -- makes decisions beyond authority
Sits on Problems
Slow / Low Throughput
Solves Problems
Static
Stuck in the Past
Supportive
Takes Responsibility
Thrives in Conflict
Tough but Fair
Uncooperative
Underappreciated -- productive but humble
Unethical
Unfriendly but Unusually Productive
Unimaginative
Unproductive
Unreliable
Virtuous
Visionary
Well Connected
Well Known in Firm
Well Known in Industry
Well Respected
Witty

Professional Development

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