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This monthly email is sent to NSGConnect members to inspire self-reflection and discussions with colleagues relating to professional development topics including leadership, self-care, research, and many more. As a member of NSGConnect, add your thoughts to the NSGConnect Discussion Forum and visit the NSGConnect community page to find out other ways you can engage with the program!  You can also utilize the NSGConnect Library for additional resources.  Tell us what you think and send us feedback and comments to project leader, Shannon Wieloch at s7m6w@yahoo.com .  

Developing Your Career

"What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves. You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be." 

Russell Simmons

TEDtalk Spotlight 

Adam Galinsky: "How to Speak Up for Yourself"

https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_galinsky_how_to_speak_up_for_yourself

In this TEDtalk, Adam Galinsky discusses how to speak up for yourself. He provides strategies about how to advocate for yourself. While this talk is not genetic counselor specific, being able to assert yourself and speak up are skills that we as genetic counselors need throughout our careers. 

Self Reflection/Discussion

• Reflect on a time when you have needed to assert yourself. What was the situation? How did you find the confidence to stand up to what you needed? Were you successful?
• Is there a strategy from Adam's talk you think you may want to try? Which strategy is it? How do you think you would like to use it?

Key points to consider about building and serving a community:

1. Speaking up for yourself can be difficult at any point in your life
2. Strategies exist to help build confidence to increase a person's "range" and have additional confidence and courage to speak up

Additional Resources

Podcast: How to Be Awesome At Your Job #468

https://awesomeatyourjob.com/468-upgrading-your-confidence-and-courage-at-work-with-bill-treasurer/

Bill Treasurer, a business consultant, talks about how to look at risks and risk-taking, as well as different forms of courage in the business world - what he calls try, trust and tell.

Book: "Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts." by Brené Brown

This book brings together research and stories to discuss developing leadership with or without a title and with vulnerability and courage.

NOTE:

Developing Your Career was created by Emily Smith, MS, CGC. Emily works as a clinical science liaison at CBR, a California Cryobank Company.