Proactive

The word ‘proactive’ comprises two parts: ‘pro’ and ‘active’. ‘Pro’ comes from Latin and stands for both ‘before’ and ‘for’; ‘active’ also comes from a Latin word, ‘activus’, meaning ‘taking action’. Putting both together gives us ‘proactive’, meaning ‘acting in advance’. If we take a proactive approach to the processes that take place in our lives and in organisations, we act in advance, in other words, we approach these processes with foresight and initiative. Taking a proactive approach therefore means to keep moving with a forward-looking focus. ProactiveIf we take a proactive approach to the processes that take place in our lives and in organisations, we act in advance i.e. with foresight and initiative.... Read more action thus occurs with an approach that affirms activity and doing.