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4-Steps to Designing Your Fall Career Sandbox: Bold by Association

How to treat professional events as low-risk test beds changes everything

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Welcome to The Bold Brief—

Many expert healthcare professionals like you, view nursing and industry gatherings as a passive break from the daily clinical and hospital grind, like a place to listen to lectures and collect CEs.

Instead, you need a strategy so that you view annual gatherings as a career sandbox.

So, let’s build your professional career trajectory using your associations.

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What is a Sandbox?

A sandbox is a low-risk environment where you can test new ideas, try on new professional identities, and experiment with skill sets before executing them in high-stakes environments.

If your idea fails or an elevator pitch stumbles in a conference hall, there are zero negative consequences for your daily job and long term professional opportunities.

Use this simple, 4-step strategy to design your own career sandbox starting today!

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4 Steps to Design Your Career Sandbox at an Industry or Association Event

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