Many groups wish to be considered professional. To achieve this status the group needs to bee organised into a formal unit. They must also demonstrate a domain of activity and that if the group has control over this domain that it will be safer and more effectively run. The group must convince the public that lay people can not adequately judge the group and that only the group themselves are capable of judging themselves. Usually professional monopolies are granted on conditions that they must regulate themselves and that they must further the interests of the public.

This means that a professional group must:

For success the group needs: