NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS
GO! PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT: Helping NSBE Professionals Succeed & Soar!!
THINK BIG
The NSBE Professionals’ vision is to inspire the next generation of technical experts; and its mission is to serve as a catalyst for transforming the culture of engineering. NSBE will achieve these aspirations by creating a platform for Black STEM Professionals to form valuable personal and professional connections through collaboration and knowledge- sharing strategies. These connections focus on transforming individuals from early technical stages to technical mastery. NSBE also provides opportunities to cultivate leaders in career, technology, and non-profit spaces; and support members as they transition from early stage, individual contributor to middle and later stage enterprise manager.
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With this Strategic Direction, NSBE seizes a unique opportunity to help its Professional members soar in their careers and their
experience of work. By supporting NSBE Professionals to better access NSBE’s network of accomplished Black Engineers and STEM mentors, these member can aspire dierently in their career journey. They can both have a positive view of their abilities, and positively impact society, especially “give back” to the NSBE community. These members can experience their career journey as a unique opportunity to continue to achieve high performance, develop and tackle meaningful career goals , and positively impact society especially by “giving back” to the NSBE community. Central to realizing this ambition is to better link professional members emergent and changing career development needs with the broad array of professional talent and strong business and corporate partners already in the organization. To realize this new strategic approach, the Professional Strategic Direction workgroup proposes the creation of a Learning Interest Inventory (LII) to establish a baseline and better customize member experiences. Designed and experimented in stages for refinement, the LII will provide strategic intelligence on the professional members’ perceptions of their career, development and advancement needs. The annual Professionals’ programming impact and change will be evaluated with an assessment instrument at the strategy period’s end. Over time after the LII is launched, piloted and refined, the Professionals foresee the entrepreneurial value of this unique data set and intend to monetize its sales and distribution to key external stakeholders. Finally, new information from the Learning Interest Inventory will provide the NSBE Professional leadership insights on how to better bridge key development and competency gaps important to better support NSBE Professionals’ career performance and satisfaction. These insights will help address key gaps in the research literature about what it takes to drive, promote and support Black engineers and STEM talent’s persistence, resilience and well-being in professional spaces.
Member / Stakeholder Engagement: Who are the current/ potential personal and professional connections involved in this experience? What role do they play? General Membership – Mentor/Mentees Chapter Leadership – Program Implementers Special Interest Group (SIG) Leadership – Program Developers WHQ – System Manager BCA Partners – Mentors and/or Programmatic Financial Support
Focus Area Description: What type of
Current Program/Activity: How is this experience, currently inspiring and transforming?
Suggested Changes Necessary: What will we change about the current experience or what should we add to provide additional value to the member?
experience will provide value to the member?
Mentorship
The NSBE Professionals Mentorship Program is not formalized. While there exists a mechanism to connect through the MyNSBE Bulletin Board, Professional members are not utilizing this feature as a way to find/ become mentors. Informal mentorship experiences have been formed through the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Chapter specific initiatives.
Redefine Professional Mentorship to include: • Strategic matching based on expressed interests; • Recommended engagement schedule; • Mentorship Training and Resources; • Exploration of functional mentorship that segments interactions based on technical interests, leadership development, career-level, and/or life stages; and • Establish a new, reinforcing NSBE Mentorship feedback/learning loop between the Professional & Collegiate strategic directions that better connect NSBE Professionals with NSBE Jr. and Collegiate mentees.
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