Swinburne PPT Template
Part 1
Developing your Professional Purpose
Statement
Graduate Diploma of Environmental Health Practice
Louise Dunn
Acknowledgements: Jacqueline Dohaney, Engineering Practice Academy
Ongoing reflection…
Professional Purpose Statement (
(initial)
Experiences
Structured - Interviews
Meetings
Unstructured – your own
experiences with the world
Professional Purpose Statement
(revisit)
Part 1 - Developing your Professional Purpose
statement – collecting the evidence!
This presentation aims to support you to write a Professional
Purpose statement
This session is about gathering ideas, reflecting, documenting
and building some evidence about yourself to help you
construct this statement
Some of you may find this challenging – but stick with it! This
does not need to be perfect –this is a dynamic process
This is Part 1 of constructing the Professional Purpose
statement please see canvas for Part 2
Learning Goals
By the end of this presentation , you will be able to…
Describe and define professional purpose
Reflect on and document your personal values and interests
Reflect on and document your professional values and
interests
Reflect on and document your societal values, interests and
how you might contribute to society in your everyday life and
work
Professional Purpose
Intersection between an
individual’s personal,
professional and societal
values, interests and
aspirations
Mechanism to support you
to form, refine, direct and
achieve your unique career
goals.
Why do you think it’s important to incorporate the
personal, and societal into your professional life?
A theoretical reason.…..
Your ‘being’, or who you are becoming cannot be
separated from who you are
Who you are becoming, both personally and
professionally is shaped by many aspects of our lives,
including the societal expectations associated with being
a professional
Assignment 1 ïƒ Initial Written statement
Imagine yourself in 5 years time...,
Personal: Attributes: Who will you be? Goals: What will you
achieve, personally? Capabilities: What will you be able to do?
Professional: Attributes: Who will you be? Goals: What will you
achieve, in your career as an environmental healh
professional? Capabilities: What will you be able to do? What
will your work lifestyle be?
Societal: Contribution: What contribution and impact will you
make on society, through your environmental health work
and your everyday actions?
Values
Personal
Professional
Societal
Your Interests
and aspirations
Integration of
self
Three key activities
eflecting on
Your values
Interests and aspirations
Integration of self -a
frame to help write your
statement
You are gathering
evidence about yourself!
Overview of Professional Purpose activities to
help write your statement
Before you get started you need..
The evidence worksheet ( on canvas)
Thinking and reflecting time ( at least one hour !)
Yourself ! : You may also like to talk through this activity
with a colleague or friend or workshop with another
student in the program
Lets get started …..
Professional Purpose
Activity 1. Values
[10 mins]
Values
What values are important to you?
What are the professional values underpinning the
practice of environmental health ?
What are the values underpinning your organisation?
What other values have shaped you?
I encourage you to seek these out!
The following slide provides a list of words that you may
like to use to describe your values
What are your core
values?
What guides how
you live in your
personal,
professional and
societal life?
Important note: there’s no right or wrong answer, and you can always change these in the future
Using the worksheet provided
Reflect on your own personal, professional and societal
values over the next few slides and use the worksheet
provided to write some words down to describe these…
• Aim to use at least 5 – 6 words for each of these areas
• For example, I personally value fairness..
Personal values:
What are the values that are important and
core to how you live in your personal life?
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, and you can always
change these in the future
Professional values:
What are the values that are important and
core to how you enact your professional life?
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, and you can always
change these in the future
Societal values:
What are the core values in how you feel
about society, and your place in it?
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, and you can always
change these in the future
The next step ..
Professional Purpose
Activity 2. Personal, Professional, Societal
interests & aspirations
[15 mins]
Using the evidence worksheet
Reflect on your own personal, professional and societal
interests and inspirations over the next few slides and use
the evidence worksheet to write done some words to
describe these …
Aim to use at least 5 – 6 words for each of these areas
Personal Interests:
What are the activities that you are passionate
and curious about? Things you love doing?
personal relationships:
friendships, family and
significant others
sports
fine arts & theatre
ho
ieswellbeing
outdoor
activities religious
activities
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, please add to these
and you can always change these in
the future
crafts
music
leisure
activities
cookinggaming travel
Professional Interests:
What are your prefe
ed work activities, projects, and sectors of environmental
health ?
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, you please add to
these, they can always change these
in the future
Quality assurance
project management
Software, computer systems,
technology app development
indigenous health
Health promotion
esearch presenting
networking
Compliance activities, e.g. accommodation
standards, noise, food, water, air quality
Local, state, federal
government, private
sector
Waste water planning
Food security
Health and wellbeing climate and environmental
Innovation
people management
politics and governance
humanitarian
Education and training
Army reserve not-for-profit
Communicable disease
control
Emergency
management
Legal frameworks
Professional lifestyle:
How do you want to work?
Commute time
Freelancer or permanent hire?
Ideal work hours
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, please add to these
and you can always change these in
the future
Team-based or solo work?
Fast pace or slow pace?
Full-time or part time?
Prefe
ed salary
Travel time vs. home time?
Do you want to be your
own boss?
Rigid schedule or more flexible?
Short,
ief projects or long, in depth projects?
Society Interests:
What are your interests and areas of society that you care about
and want to make a difference?
Important note: there’s no right or
wrong answer, and you can always
change these in the future
indigenous cultures
LGBTQI+
eligious tolerance
agriculturetechnology
acial inequality
waste
homelessness
law & justice
food
climate change
warfare
crime
immigration
government policy
humanitarian aid
education
charity
performing arts
wealth
inequality
u
an landscapes
farming
families and children
gender inequality
water resources
poverty
connecting to nature
sanitation
human rights
natural disasters
People and communities
mental health
The final step ..
Professional Purpose
Activity 3. Personal, Professional, Societal
Integration of self
[15 mins]
Integration of Self
Reflecting your worksheets &
the words you have identified
Try and write down how
your key ideas fit into this diagram
.. you find some may overlap
Finish line for Part 1 ..
Well done!
This is your record of reflection , ideas and evidence to help you
with the next stage of writing your Professional Purpose
statement – Part 2 .
The evidence worksheet is required to be submitted as your
evidence to support your Assignment: Professional Purpose
statement (initial)
Developing your professional purpose statement
Evidence Worksheet
This worksheet is to be used in Part 1 – to support the development of your professional purpose statement (initial). Please submit with your statement
Areas
Words or ideas to describe your values
Words or ideas to describe your interests and aspirations
Personal
Professional
Societal