From the course: Being Your Own Fierce Self-Advocate
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Overlooked opportunities for advocacy
From the course: Being Your Own Fierce Self-Advocate
Overlooked opportunities for advocacy
- If you think about it, you advocate for things all the time, but I guess you don't call it advocating. Maybe you call it managing the problem, handling an issue, or simply getting stuff done. You're making things happen, but are you seeing all the opportunities around you? To help you see more of these, I've developed a model I call S.P.A.R.K. Using S.P.A.R.K., you'll discover when you're advocating for yourself and see chances to do more of it. The S in S.P.A.R.K. is for start. Is there a project, a training, even a system that would help you be more effective in your role? These holes can be productive places to start asking for what you need. In one of my first jobs, I was a spokesperson for my company as we launched a new study. Reporters interviewed me, and I was excited by the responsibility, but being real, I was in over my head. I realized getting media training would be a good start. I proposed it to my…
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