Get crystal clear on who you are so you can explain why you do what you do!
IS THIS YOU…
You can’t easily answer the question: “What do you do?”
If you constantly change your answer to fit the situation or you default to something like “I’m a jack-of-all-trades,” that’s a sign you don’t actually know how to communicate who you are.
You wear so many hats it confuses people.
Are you listing three, five, or a dozen different things you do? Stop. Nobody understands a laundry list of identities. That’s hurting your cause, not helping it.
You’re hiding, minimizing or compartmentalizing parts of yourself to fit in.
Trying to fit into a work situation by denying part of who you are is exhausting. Eventually, you’ll either feel frustrated or disengaged, and you’ll leave that role. It doesn’t have to be that way. There is a workplace where you belong as your full set of identities.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
I’VE BEEN IN
YOUR SHOES.
My career stalled. I didn’t feel seen, I was undervalued, and I thought I was a misfit. I didn’t realize I was undergoing a professional identity crisis.
I started studying professional identity through formal research to restart my career and understand who I was.
Through this process, I discovered the secret to being seen for my full talent and hybrid professional identity! Today, it’s my mission to share this knowledge with as many people as possible.
- Leading authority on hybrid professional identity
- PhD spent 10 years researching this topic
- Invented signature tools at the nexus of career development, personal branding, and identity studies
- Author of book More Than My Title
Learn more about Dr. Sarabeth Berk
“Professional identity is what you call yourself in your work. It’s who you are when you follow your passion and purpose.”
— DR. SARABETH BERK
THE FIX?
Know thyself to know where you belong.
Attract work opportunities that see you for you and value your different professional identities.
Stop calling yourself a jack-of-all- trades.
You are a master of something. It’s not an either/or. When you clarify your primary professional identities, you’re able to articulate the foundational elements that make you, you! Once you know who you really are, your ability to communicate your value skyrockets.
HOW DO YOU DO THIS?
1) Define the different professional identities you possess.
2) Get clear on which ones are your primary and non-primary professional identities.
3) Validate your primary professional identities (the ones you want to be known for and are the truest you).
4) Communicate with confidence, conviction and clarity.
COURSE INCLUDES
- Step-by-step guidance on how to decode your professional identity
- 1.5 hours of video instruction
- 80-page PDF workbook
- Over 8 different custom activities
- A guided visualization to access specific work memories
- Methodology on how to identify and narrow down professional identities
- A 4-part framework to validate your core professional identities
Most people don’t know how to explain who they really are in their work.
This course changes that!
COURSE OVERVIEW
Before you can see your hybridity, you have to know your professional identities. It’s time to drop catchphrases like being a jack-of-all-trades.
This course is designed to help you rethink and redefine the professional identities you truly possess. Instead of making up a new answer in every situation, or saying you wear a lot of hats, you’ll learn how to validate your professional identities so you can tell people who you really are.
In this course, you’ll gain conviction, confidence, and inner awareness about yourself in your work. By doing this series of deeply reflective activities, your self-concept will become more focused, and you’ll sound more sincere to whoever you’re talking to.
Owning your professional identity isn’t something we’ve been taught how to do. Learning to decode who you really are and letting go of generic job titles is a huge step in your personal and professional growth. This clarity changes how you present yourself and how people will see you.
After this course, you’ll be ready to Brand Your Hybrid Identity.
Preview of Curriculum
- IMPORTANT: How to navigate the following activities (1:16)
- Foreshadowing: Validating Your Primary Professional Identities
- 1. REQUIRED!! How do I see myself? PART 1 (2:39)
- 2. How do I see myself? PART 2 (2:34)
- 3. REQUIRED!! First, Best, or Only (4:56)
- 4. REQUIRED!! How do others see me? (2:34)
- External Validation: Interview Questions PDF
- 5. When am I in flow? (Energy Bar Graph) (1:34)
- 6. What are my greatest areas of expertise? (1:25)
- 7. Skills Inventory PART 1 (2:20)
- 8. Convert Skills into Professional Identities PART 2 (2:27)
- Professional Identity Brainstorm (2:03)
- HANDOUT: Professional Identity Word List
- Narrowing Your Professional Identities (4:05)
- Primary, Non-Primary, and Aspirational Identities
- Goals in this section
- Functional Vs. Subject Matter Identities (1:41)
- Example of Narrowing & Validating Professional Identities (3:47)