What if professionalism wasn't about leaving parts of ourselves at the door?
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What if professionalism wasn't about leaving parts of ourselves at the door? ✳︎
At The Village, we're reframing and reclaiming professionalism by exploring healthier ways to work, lead, collaborate, and be together.
This video series looks beyond professionalism as performance, rigid expectations, and unwritten rules about how we're supposed to show up. Instead, we're getting curious about the experiences that shape us, the ways we relate to one another, how we navigate difference, and what becomes possible when we build workplaces where more people can contribute and thrive.
Throughout the series, Erika R. Burnett, Executive Director of The Village, explores practical frameworks and tools for understanding ourselves and each other a little better.
Episode 1:
Start With Yourself
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When you walk through the door at work, you don't stop being a person.
You bring your identities, experiences, emotions, expectations, relationships, and whatever happened before you arrived. So does everybody else.
In our first episode, we're exploring emotional intelligence as a tool for becoming more aware of what we're carrying and more intentional about what we do with it.
We'll unpack the socialization that shapes how we understand ourselves and others, explore self-awareness and self-regulation, and consider how empathy can give us more choices in the ways we communicate, navigate conflict, lead, and make decisions.
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Difference Is Information
"These young people today..." You finished that sentence, didn't you? 👀
Our workplaces bring together people shaped by different generations, technologies, economies, cultural moments, expectations, and ideas about what it means to be "professional."
Those differences can easily become stereotypes: They're entitled. They're stuck in their ways. They don't want to work. They don't know how to communicate.
But stereotypes may describe what we think we're experiencing without actually explaining it.