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Your professional identity is your unique value in the workforce
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Become More Than Your Job Title:
The Power of Professional Identity
Target Audience:
CEOs, business leaders, managers, HR professionals
Overview
In this keynote, Sarabeth explains what professional identity is, provides stories and examples on how it’s used in the workplace, and gives clear evidence on how it plays an important role in self-awareness and performance on teams.
Additionally, Dr. Sarabeth illustrates a key concept in the future of work, which she calls hybrid professional identity. Roles like Biogeochemical Engineers, BizDevOps Directors, and Metaverse Managers are examples of hybridity in plain sight. Hybrid professionals work across silos, bridge fragmentation, and often translate complex concepts and processes between departments to make sense of interdisciplinary problems, saving time and adding value to the bottom line.
Hybrid professionals are all around us, but they’re not understood as a distinct part of the workforce. They get pigeonholed and compartmentalized into roles that don’t allow them to be their full selves at work. This leads to low performance, disengagement, and turnover.
Companies who know how to recruit, hire, manage and retain talent in regard to professional identity have an advantage. When workers feel seen and valued for their professional identity, they deliver extraordinary results, are more engaged, and perform at their highest potential. High performing teams consist of experts, generalists, AND hybrids.
Takeaways
A better way to answer “What do you do?”
Better questions to ask your team about who they are
Tips to uncover your unique value in your career
New ways to feel seen, known, and valued by coworkers
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How to Become More Than Your
Job Title
Overview
If you do more than one thing, then you ARE more than one thing. Instead of being either an expert or a generalist, or saying you “wear a lot of hats,” learn how to communicate your unique value at the intersection of your multiple professional identities.
This interactive presentation uses Sarabeth’s five-step process on how to discover your professional identity. Attendees engage in a series of activities to reflect on their professional identity from brainstorming to Venn diagrams to small group discussions. Sarabeth skillfully facilitates dialogue and pushes everyone to break out of their old “identity” boxes and rethink who they really are. By the end, participants have new tools to try and new language to use to convey their unique value.
Takeaways
Reframing who you really are in your work
Five-step process for defining and articulating your professional identity
How to describe what you really do so you don’t sound like everyone else
How to give a 10-second elevator pitch to differentiate yourself during networking, applying for jobs, or sending email intros
Target Audience:
Professionals across industries who…
don’t feel seen
are interested in showing how they’re more than their job title
want to clarify their unique value prop