Your Research Matters. Learn How to Make your Contribution Visible
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Abstract
Kinesiology students already spend years building knowledge, developing technical skills, conducting research, and preparing for graduate school or professional careers. Yet having strong qualifications does not always make it easy to talk about your work, ask questions, pursue opportunities, or see yourself as a professional. The hidden challenge is Human Readiness: whether your confidence, identity, and ability to communicate have caught up with what you already know. When that gap remains, students may stay quiet in professional settings, underestimate transferable skills, avoid opportunities, or wait until they feel completely qualified before taking action. Using the VISIBLE™ Framework—Voice, Identity, Spotlight, Inner Work, Belief, Leverage, and Elevation—students will examine where confidence may be limiting their next step. Participants will leave with practical strategies to communicate their experience, strengthen professional identity, make their work more visible, and take one concrete action toward their next academic or career opportunity. Learning Objectives -Attendees will learn how to identify three Human Readiness gaps that can affect professional confidence, communication, and willingness to pursue opportunities. -Attendees will discover how to apply the VISIBLE™ Framework to communicating research, asking questions, professional identity, networking, and career opportunities. -Attendees will leave able to identify one concrete action that makes their knowledge, research, or experience more visible to others.
Your Research Matters. Learn How to Make your Contribution Visible
Kinesiology students already spend years building knowledge, developing technical skills, conducting research, and preparing for graduate school or professional careers. Yet having strong qualifications does not always make it easy to talk about your work, ask questions, pursue opportunities, or see yourself as a professional. The hidden challenge is Human Readiness: whether your confidence, identity, and ability to communicate have caught up with what you already know. When that gap remains, students may stay quiet in professional settings, underestimate transferable skills, avoid opportunities, or wait until they feel completely qualified before taking action. Using the VISIBLE™ Framework—Voice, Identity, Spotlight, Inner Work, Belief, Leverage, and Elevation—students will examine where confidence may be limiting their next step. Participants will leave with practical strategies to communicate their experience, strengthen professional identity, make their work more visible, and take one concrete action toward their next academic or career opportunity. Learning Objectives -Attendees will learn how to identify three Human Readiness gaps that can affect professional confidence, communication, and willingness to pursue opportunities. -Attendees will discover how to apply the VISIBLE™ Framework to communicating research, asking questions, professional identity, networking, and career opportunities. -Attendees will leave able to identify one concrete action that makes their knowledge, research, or experience more visible to others.