Proactive or proactive is a adjective of the Portuguese language that defines someone who act early, avoiding or solving future situations and problems.
The act of a proactive person, called a proactivity, is one of the great qualities that many companies and institutions look for in an individual's personality when hiring a job, for example.
In English, proactive translates to "self-starter" ("start something on your own", in the literal Portuguese translation) or "proactive".
Proactive or Proactive
Before the New Orthographic Agreement, the word "proactive" was spelled "proactive". However, both versions are still accepted as correct in Brazil, depending on the type of pronunciation applied to the word: unstressed or stressed.
According to the grammatical rule, what defines whether the word has an acute accent or not and the hyphen is its intonation, stressed or unstressed. When the prefix "pro" is said with a closed (unstressed) pronunciation "pro", the word must not have a hyphen. Example
: proactive.If the pronunciation is open (stressed) the prefix "pro" has an acute accent and is separated from the other word by a hyphen. Example: proactive.
In Brazil, it is more common to pronounce the word as if it were in the proactive form (with closed intonation), while in Portugal, the sound of the more open word is used, making the most used spelling to be proactive.
Proactive and Reactive
One proactive behavior it's about avoiding or solving a likely problem before it even happens. By planning and executing ideas and tasks, a proactive (or proactive) person can avoid negative situations or losses for a company, for example.
Reactive is the act of react after an event, after an action, is to have a reaction. The opposite of proactivity.
One reactive behavior, unlike the proactive, does not have a positive quality, as it indicates someone who does not worry about problems in a timely manner or who leaves situations unresolved.
Within chemistry, the reactive substances they are used to identify the nature of bodies, given the reactions they produce.
Look 5 attitudes of those who are proactive.