Summary of #ExpoCIEE: Faça com propósito, faça de propósito - Tamara Braga

Key Wellness, Self-Care, and Productivity Strategies from Tamara Braga’s Lecture "Faça com propósito, faça de propósito" at ExpoCIEE

• Purpose and Intentionality in Work and Life
  • Understand and connect your personal purpose with your professional actions.
  • Act with intention to create meaningful impact, especially in diversity and inclusion efforts.
  • Align purpose with profitability and inclusion to foster environments where both coexist.
• Leveraging Volunteer Work
  • Use volunteering as a way to explore interests and clarify career goals.
  • Volunteering helps develop empathy and understand different social realities.
• Career Development and Continuous Learning
  • Update and optimize your professional profile (e.g., on CIEE platform) to increase job matching.
  • Engage in free courses (technical and socio-emotional skills) via platforms like Saber Virtual to enhance your resume.
  • Emphasize both hard skills (technical) and soft skills (emotional intelligence, resilience, adaptability).
• Embracing Mistakes and Failure
  • Accept mistakes as part of the learning process and growth.
  • Understand that even top professionals fail often; persistence is key.
  • Cultivate a culture where failure is seen as a step toward innovation and success.
• Diversity and Inclusion as a Strategy
  • Recognize diversity broadly: race, gender, sexuality, disabilities, generations, and more.
  • Inclusion requires intentional actions, not just hiring diverse people but supporting and developing them.
  • Advocate for proportional representation at all levels of organizations, not just entry-level.
  • Support affinity groups and safe spaces within companies to foster belonging and address specific needs.
  • Understand that diversity enhances company culture, innovation, engagement, and profitability.
• Using LinkedIn Effectively
  • Build your professional presence by sharing authentic experiences and challenges.
  • Use LinkedIn to network, gain visibility, and access opportunities.
  • Show vulnerability and real-life struggles to connect and inspire others.
  • Recruiters actively use LinkedIn to find talent; presence there is essential.
• Mental Health and Well-being
  • Incorporate mental health awareness into daily professional life.
  • Recognize the importance of emotional well-being in productivity and workplace happiness.
  • Use platforms like LinkedIn to support mental health conversations.
• Practical Tips for Inclusion
  • Design products and processes that consider all user needs (e.g., accessible kitchen tools for visually impaired).
  • Adapt workplace culture to include different personalities and needs (e.g., introverts, neurodiverse individuals).
  • Move beyond tokenism by demanding real proportional representation and inclusion.
• Building Resilience and Confidence
  • Believe in yourself despite doubts and impostor syndrome.
  • Strengthen your professional and personal identity to reach unexpected places.
  • Engage in continuous self-improvement and seek mentorship.

Summary of Presented Advice and Methodologies

• Purpose-Driven Action: Align personal and corporate purpose; act intentionally.
• Volunteering: Explore and confirm career interests; develop empathy.
• Continuous Learning: Update profiles, take free courses (hard and soft skills).
• Mistake Culture: Embrace failure as growth; innovate through persistence.
• Diversity & Inclusion:
  • Broaden understanding of diversity.
  • Implement affirmative hiring and retention strategies.
  • Foster affinity groups and safe spaces.
  • Demand proportional representation.
• LinkedIn Use: Build authentic presence; network; support mental health.
• Mental Health: Integrate awareness into work; support well-being.
• Inclusive Design: Create accessible products; adapt culture to diverse needs.
• Resilience: Overcome self-doubt; seek growth and mentorship.

Presenters and Sources

• Tamara Braga – Chemical engineer, diversity and inclusion expert, Top Voice on LinkedIn, current Network for Diversity and Inclusion at GAP.
• André and Gabi – Hosts and facilitators of the ExpoCIEE event.
• Other Mentions:
  • Humberto Casagrande – Discussed job market and registration updates.
  • Aline – Presenter on Saber Virtual platform.
  • Taís from AMBEV – Speaker on innovation.
  • Juliana Alencar and Júnior Bornelli – Speakers on organizational culture and entrepreneurship (mentioned).

This summary highlights the key wellness, productivity, and self-care insights shared by Tamara Braga during her ExpoCIEE lecture, focusing on purposeful action, diversity and inclusion, continuous learning, resilience, and mental health awareness.

Notable Quotes

— 39:45 — « The solution is not the most difficult or the most beautiful, but touching people's lives has much more to do with being practical and wanting to make it happen. »

— 44:48 — « LinkedIn is now a corporate space where we can dedicate time to helping other people take care of their mental health and connect this with their daily lives. »

— 52:10 — « Demand proportionality from companies: if you have 56% of black people in the country today, you have to have 56% of black people in your company too, and not just at the base. »

— 53:13 — « How do we make sure that a person on the autistic spectrum, who can't connect with people in the same way, also feels included in this culture? »

— 55:43 — « Unconscious biases are prejudice, which ends up preventing people from developing or entering the space just because of who they are. »

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