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Learning to Love Networking
Many people hate networking — myself included. I find it difficult, anxiety provoking, and stress inducing. If you’re like me, there are a hundred other things you’d rather be doing, but that doesn’t mean networking isn’t an important skill. While it may never become something you love, approaching strangers can become something you can do with relative ease. Here are a few things to remember as you learn to network like a pro.
It Doesn’t Have to Be Face to Face
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Preparing for Your Performance Review: You can do it!
It’s that time: Your performance review is coming up. Whether your review takes place once a year or more often, it’s not unusual to have some apprehension about the event.
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Steven Just / Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe / University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy
When Steven Just takes stock of his high school experience, he admits that because of some personal struggles, he did not achieve the highest grades or have the best attendance. In fact, sometimes he clashed with the principal and teachers. But the advice he gives today — even to students who aren’t enjoying high school — is apply to college. “College is so different from high school,” he points out, “and you can choose to study subjects that you find interesting.”
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Dr. Henrietta Mann / Cheyenne / Distinguished Educator / Founding member of the AISES Council of Elders
For Dr. Henrietta Mann, stressing the importance of education has been a lifelong mission. At a very young age, she developed a passion for learning that blossomed into an unrelenting quest to promote education — for Natives and non-Natives alike — and led to a career of teaching at the pre-college, community college, undergraduate, and graduate levels.
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Corey Gray / Siksika Nation (Blackfoot) / Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) / Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
It was well after midnight when Corey Gray got home from work at the California Institute of Technology’s and Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Wash. After getting some sleep, he checked his emails and one jumped out. His first thought after reading it: “It must be a test! This can’t be real!”
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Dr. Wendy F. Smythe: 2019 Professional of the Year / Haida of the Eagle moiety and of the Sdast’ aas (Fish egg) house
Dr. Wendy F. Smythe, Haida, never thought her career would veer into the world of public policy.
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Sheila Lopez: 2019 Blazing Flame Awardee / Navajo
Sheila Lopez still vividly recalls the first time she fully shared her life story in front of an audience. A member of the Navajo tribe, Lopez was the first in her family to attend college. While an undergraduate pursuing a degree in electrical engineering at Northern Arizona University, Lopez worked in the school’s multicultural engineering program office.
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Dylan Moriarty: 2019 Most Promising Engineer or Scientist / Navajo
Though he had no idea of it at the time, Dylan Moriarty started training for his current job at New Mexico–based Sandia National Laboratories when he was a young boy. Moriarty grew up in rural Fort Defiance, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation.
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Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben: 2019 Technical Excellence Awardee / Oglala Sioux
Dr. Otakuye Conroy-Ben’s environmental consciousness was awakened at a very young age. Growing up in Porcupine, S.D., on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, she could literally taste and smell the impacts people were — or were not — making on the natural world around her.
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Yona Wade: 2019 Indigenous Excellence Awardee / Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Yona Wade is not the type of person who waits for things to happen. It’s an impulse he has been cultivating since he was very young. “As a kid, I always was the one who wanted to be in charge and run the show and make whatever I needed to happen actually happen,” he says. “I never had time to wait for others.”