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This presentation is for a workshop on reviewing and telling your own professional stories. It includes getting participants to do some activities and sharing of my own professional story. Feel free to use slides to get others to start thinking about their own stories.

I am not terribly fond of the term rebranding! But what I am more comfortable is with sharing and telling stories. This session is about redrafting, revising and retelling your own professional story.

In the next 45 minutes we will....
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Published on Nov 18, 2015

Is it time to revisit the story you tell others about your work? This presentation gives you some tips.

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#SELFIE

YOUR PROFESSIONAL STORY
This presentation is for a workshop on reviewing and telling your own professional stories. It includes getting participants to do some activities and sharing of my own professional story. Feel free to use slides to get others to start thinking about their own stories.

I am not terribly fond of the term rebranding! But what I am more comfortable is with sharing and telling stories. This session is about redrafting, revising and retelling your own professional story.

In the next 45 minutes we will....
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SESSION BREAKDOWN

  • Persona
  • Image vs reality
  • Self audit
  • Write a biography
  • Professional story your #selfie
Explore the following:

1. What is your professional persona?
2. The difference between image and your own professional reality
3. Look at decluttering and auditing your professional story
4. Start writing our own professional autobiography/bio
5. Take a professional #selfie

Are you ready? Can I have a show of hands for those of you who have always wanted to be a librarian?

Ask for a volunteer to say at what age they knew.

I was a library monitor in high school! But many people say to me (those who don't know many librarians) - you don't look like a librarian.
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HIPSTER LIBRARIAN

  • kitten
  • tattoos
  • awesome glasses
  • love of vintage
  • crafter/maker
I am often called a hipster librarian which makes me laugh. Although I do have all of the following:

1. kitten
2. tattoos
3. glasses
4. love of vintage
5. crafter

I also play ukulele and run and much more people only see part of my persona online and in real life. The things I want people to see. People might make assumptions based on how I look! So for our first activity I want to explore this: Building your own librarian!
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Activity 1: build a information management professional

  • Using the materials on your table
  • Each group construct a librarian
  • 10 minutes
  • List 2 skills your librarian posesses
  • We will discuss the results
It is a very quick exercise. I want each group to construct a librarian and give your librarian to skills or powers. Assign someone to report back just incase I call on your group.
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DON'T JUDGE A LIBRARIAN BY THEIR COVER

  • professional integrity
  • personality
  • passion
  • pride
  • knowledge & skill
What is important in our profession:

integrity
being genuine being yourself
having a passion for the professional and community
pride in doing a job well
your experience, knowledge and skill

Don't let labels define you... be wonderful, be the best at what you do. Let your work speak for you! Be a professional.
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AUDIT YOUR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

WHERE? WHAT? WHO?
If you are going to rebrand or rewrite your own story you need to explore the AS-IS state but looking at different aspects of your professional life so you can DECLUTTER!

As is versus

What you enable you to get...

where you want to be
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professional audit | declutter

Audit could include:

Social media

- where are you active professionally?
- is there somewhere you should have a presence that you don't?
- do you have a professional and personal profile/presences?

Face-to-face
- professional associations - ALIA
- volunteer work
- professional committees
- socialising

Work/study

Balance in work and life also important to have a wholistic approach

Play/recreation

Spend the next 6 minutes on your own audit...
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WRITE A BIO

I've heard many people say they hate writing about themselves. I actually really like writing bios for conferences etc...

I have a formula that makes it fun!
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MY FORMULA

  • context
  • short
  • unique selling point
  • pop culture reference
  • Don't be too clever! (Not to self)
What is the bio for? Audience.
Keep it short
Is there something unique about you are for example you are a copyright geek/nerd?

I like to use pop culture references but you need to think about context choose a reference that will resonate with your audience.

NTS if making pop culture references don't be to clever. I have seen song lyrics used well.
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Kim Tairi broke up with herself in 2012 and decided to rewrite her professional story. She has a black belt in networking and is the Associate Director, Information Management at Swinburne University. A librarian and an educator. She will share her story today and is going to get you to start sharing yours.

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@kimtairi
ktairi@swin.edu.au

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be AWESOME like a unicorn

Kim Tairi

http://haikugirloz.com