tgg NSBE Strategic Direction Synthesis mh 4-9-2020 v. 5

Therefore, chapters should establish mentoring relationships between upper- and lower- classmen, and between students and faculty (group mentoring).

Create incentives Create tracking systems

GO! - PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT: Helping NSBE Professionals Succeed & Soar!! NSBE has a unique opportunity to help its Professional members soar in their careers and the experience of work. By supporting Professional members having a positive view of their abilities, and helping them access NSBE’s network of accomplished Black Engineering/STEM mentors, 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. Career development researchers study the paths professionals take toward improved career trajectory, professional growth and overall job satisfaction. Most acknowledge the importance of two goals - cultivating a positive emotional relationship with one’s work, and developing personally meaningful professional ambitions. In particular, Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory is helpful for re-imagining ways to improve NSBE’s professional members’ experiences. Bandura asserts that most individuals’ motives and behaviors are based on three categories of socially influencing experiences. Individuals are influenced by: • Their Self-efficacy, or what they believe they can achieve; • What they see other people achieve and the actions they take (i.e. mentors and peers). • Factors around them that they cannot control (i.e. for African Americans this conjures realities like implicit bias, structural racism and other systemic disadvantages). By NSBE re-imagining its professional and career development experiences, and re-deploying its previously event-centered activities, it can more deftly meet professional members’ needs. Moreover, the Professionals strategic direction (proposed by SPTF Professionals workgroup) asserts that by better understanding these members’ unique needs and better targeting supports at key defining stages (i.e. early, mid and late career) and critical turns (i.e. key moments of decision), NSBE can add new, compelling value to its Professional members.

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