Transferable Skills for Purpose-Driven Pros: Project Management Edition
You've got years of real, meaningful work behind you. You know (...or at least, you THINK you know...) you've been doing project management (... or at least, or something that looks a lot LIKE it...) for most of your career. (Wait, what counts as project management again, exactly?)
Million-dollar question: if the skill is so "transferable", why is so hard to talk about?!
Sometimes it's nerves. Sometimes it's the vocabulary. Sometimes it's not knowing which parts of your story your audience actually cares about. Usually it's some combination of all three.
Let's help you sort that out.
In this workshop, we'll work through:
Understanding why "listing your transferable skills" isn't landing — and what to do instead
Learning a simple framework for mapping your experience to what your audience actually care about
Getting a crash course in project management — what it actually is, why it matters, and where you're probably already doing it without the vocabulary
We'll use project management as our learning lab for this session — but the framework you'll build works for any skill you're trying to translate.
This is for you if:
You work in higher ed, nonprofits, or social impact and you're figuring out what's next
You've tried using "project management language" and it felt weird or didn't land
You're not sure how to talk about your experience in a way that sounds like you and lands with your audience
(PS: Bring a real example from your current or recent work -- you'll use it!)