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Re: What does Gracious Professionalism mean to you
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Originally Posted by Brian Michell
Hello Chief Delphi. TaRDIS 5416 is going having a bit of a restructure to our team code of conduct and we are trying to achieve a deeper understanding of what Gracious Professionalism is to make sure that our members can truly act with it. My question is: "What does GP mean to you?"
To me it means that you act with kindness towards everybody. That includes all students, mentors, and anybody else you're interacting with. You should be open minded when others are presenting their ideas. It means that you should congratulate all the teams after your match is done, regardless of how the game went.
Any insight to what it means to you would be greatly appreciated by all of us at TaRDIS!
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If you were to look up definitions of "Gracious", and "Professional" (definitions supported by non-trivial scholarship), and cite them, wouldn't your job be done?
I think there is a good case to be made that the phrase means nothing more, and nothing less, than what you get by concatenating the meanings of the words.
I think that is precisely why those two words were chosen, and why other words were not.
Does that make sense?
Blake
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Words/phrases  I avoid: basis, mitigate, leveraging, transitioning, impact (instead of affect/effect), facilitate, programmatic, problematic, issue (instead of problem), latency (instead of delay), dependency (instead of prerequisite), connectivity, usage & utilize (instead of use), downed, functionality, functional, power on, descore, alumni (instead of alumnus/alumna), the enterprise, methodology, nomenclature, form factor (instead of size or shape), competency, modality, provided(with), provision(ing), irregardless/irrespective, signage, colorized, pulsating, ideate
Last edited by gblake : 16-04-2016 at 12:58.
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