Bold in Reflection

Welcome to The Bold Brief—

You are a member of this community of top-notch expert nurses and healthcare professionals who aspire to be “bold” in career and life. We want to be bold in our life’s purpose, and bold in life and career choices to live with authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenges, driving forward with confidence.

So…bold in reflection.

Understanding Reflective Practices 

Reflection is not a new to most expert nurses. Reflection is the practice of looking back on experiences, insights, and achievements to extract meaning and purpose. Reflection is a skill that empowers us to recognize growth, celebrate wins, and refine our future goals.

Evidence to Support Reflection in Life & Career

Research demonstrates that reflective practice is more than a moment of pause—it’s a proven tool for personal and professional growth. Whether done alone or as a group activity, reflection is invaluable tool within your lifelong learning toolbox. Research consistently shows that regularly reflecting on experiences enhances skills, learning, and adaptability in meaningful ways in life and career. ¹

• Boosts Job Performance: Studies reveal that reflection can steadily improve job performance.

• Enhances Emotional Intelligence: Reflection builds emotional intelligence by promoting self-awareness, fostering personal growth, and strengthening interpersonal connections.

• Enables Effective Learning: Research highlights that reflection is a powerful learning tool, creating deeper and longer-lasting understanding.

• Identifies Strengths and Weaknesses: By actively reflecting, individuals can better recognize their strengths and areas for growth, making it easier to guide ongoing development.

How Each Bold Brief Edition Contributes to Your Success

Our journey through The Bold Brief has focused on four pillars using the acronym B-O-L-D: Building Life-Work Systems, Optimizing New Career Identity, Leveraging Custom Training, and Driving Forward with Confidence. Here’s how each weekly post has contributed to a framework for true happiness in your career and life – plus what you can ask for and expect in 2025.

Building Life-Work Systems

Bold in Purpose, Consistency, Boundaries, and Self-Discipline editions are vital in creating balanced systems that sustain personal and professional growth. Each topic has helped you clarify values, set boundaries, and establish the habits needed to enhance happiness and productivity.

👀In 2025, The Bold Brief will jump into advanced goal-setting, time-management tools, and strategies to build resilience within these life-work systems.

🎟️Your Input Matters: What life-work systems do you want to strengthen? Comment here to influence our upcoming topics! Reply to this email or post a comment to share your input!

Optimizing New Career Identity

Transforming your professional identity has been a priority with themes like Bold in Resume Relevance, Problem Solving, Innovation, and Stating Your Need for Change. Our recent Bold in Relevance 4-part series was read by email and online by over 10,000 readers weekly for 4 weeks and the weekly free resources were downloaded 28K times over 4 weeks! This tells me, you all are serious about learning in these series!

If you missed it, the series focused on adapting your traditional clinical resumes for industry roles, emphasizing transferable skills and measurable outcomes, and preparing for new, impactful career opportunities in non-traditional roles in HealthTech, MedTech, and beyond.

👀For 2025, The Bold Brief will take personalized training further, with step-by-step guidance on identifying skill gaps, accessing industry-specific jobs sources (not LinkedIn or Indeed), and gaining practical experience to enable your rapid transition and success.

🎟️Your Input Matters: What skills or industry insights would you like more support on? Let us know so we can focus on the areas that matter most to you! Reply to this email or post a comment to share your input!

Leveraging Custom Training

In The Bold Nurse Academy, targeted training has prepared hundreds of nurses to expand beyond traditional clinical and hospital roles, with topics like Bold in Emotional Intelligence, Creativity, and Self-Leadership. Non-traditional roles for expert nurses in Pharma, Medical Device, and beyond seek nurses who are ready to hit the ground running and are accountable to their life-long learning goals.

👀For 2025, The Bold Brief will take personalized training further, with step-by-step guidance on identifying skill gaps, accessing industry-specific jobs sources (not linking or Indeed), and gaining practical experience in field to enable your rapid transition and success.

🎟️Your Input Matters: What skills or industry insights would you like more support on? Let us know so we can focus on the areas that matter most to you! Reply to this email or post a comment to share your input!

Driving Forward with Confidence

Finally, through Confidence, Challenge, Attitude, and Vision, you’ve learned to push boundaries, overcome fear, and embrace new challenges with resilience. Each Bold Brief topic has aimed to reinforce your ability to maintain forward momentum and navigate the inevitable challenges in life and work with clarity and strength.

👀As we move into 2025, The Bold Brief will introduce advanced strategies for building mental strength, goal visualization, and opportunities to learn from experts in their non-traditional roles.

🎟️Your Input Matters: What aspects of confidence-building and resilience would you like us to facilitate for you in 2025? Reply to this email or post a comment to share your input!

🎯Looking Ahead - Bold in Negotiation Series Preview🎯

Our upcoming Bold in Negotiation 4-part series has been designed to equip you with the tools, strategies, and confidence to advocate for your earned value. From salary discussions to benefit packages, you will learn how to approach these conversations with clarity and strength. This series is the next step in building a fulfilling and rewarding life and career that aligns with your personal and professional goals for true happiness.

🛑This series will be the last Bold Brief Series for 2024 and the last series to include all free downloadable resources. More information to come to you on this topic as Bold in Negotiation is published in November 2024.🛑 

Conclusion

Reflection is a powerful tool, and by looking back on this year’s Bold Brief editions, you’re setting the stage for a stronger, more empowered future. Each edition of The Bold Brief provided you with actionable strategies, practical skills, and the encouragement to build a life and career that reflect your highest goals. Let this week’s reflection reinforce your readiness for what lies ahead as you conclude 2024.

November’s Bold in Negotiation 4-part series is a chance to deepen your expertise and claim the success you’ve worked hard to achieve.

Stay bold, stay reflective, and remember: the path you build today is the foundation for tomorrow’s success.

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Remember that this is a dedicated space for you, the nurses at the bedside and beyond, the committed healthcare professionals ready to explore transformative career paths beyond traditional roles. Every week, we'll dig into evidence-based strategies, insights, and stories designed to empower you to take bold steps toward a fulfilling career and life outside the hospital setting.

1  Facilitating reflection: A scoping review and synthesis of the factors enabling effective facilitation of reflective practice. Link