CHAPTER 6
Recognizing and Dealing with Professional Immaturity
Professional immaturity is behavior that is disruptive, destructive, or otherwise void of benefit in a business environment. It often manifests itself through behavior such as weak personal initiative, weak accountability, self-absorption, and low awareness of the impact of one’s own behavior.
Achieving professional maturity is not a condition that automatically happens to us as we enter the workforce. It’s something that we must be taught. Unfortunately, most of us were not adequately taught. Moreover, many of us do not realize it for years—and some never get it!
The increasingly handholding, coddling, I’m-not-responsible-for-my-own-actions world in which we live is having a devastating ...
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