Do you want to show up more creatively for your clients and your colleagues, your family, and your friends?
Do you want to default to thinking about opportunity versus focusing just on problems?
Discovering Hope is full of proactive steps you can take right now, to achieve a more positive mindset or to help maintain the positivity you already have
Getting Positive reveals that more optimism is close at hand
Personal Brand
There’s much talk about personal branding but does it really matter when it comes to you? It does, for two reasons:
Defensively – The best way to keep your job is to be known for doing something well that ideally correlates with making money. Ideally, you will have a unique expertise in a discipline, practice or process, or specific knowledge of an industry vertical or own key client relationships.
Offensively – You optimize your chances of success in your current agency or with prospective employers if what you deliver has a uniqueness or ‘stand out’ factor. So it should concern us when Peter Drucker says ‘Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong.’
There are two aspects to the personal branding ‘thing’ to focus on:
The reality – What you actually do; And, The ‘spin’ – What people perceive you can do, as a result of marketing.
For expert commentary, see the attached list of links.
Stuart
PS. Have a look at my past newsletters
Articles and commentary that might be of interest…
- Personal Branding Is A Leadership Requirement, Not a Self-Promotion Campaign
- The Complete A to Z Guide to Personal Branding
- Personal Branding Trends for 2014 (Part 1)
- Personal Branding Trends for 2014 (Part 2)
- Personal Brand Marketing Tips from 3 Influential Women
- Personal Branding Secrets From Social Media Superstars
- You Need to Add Video to Your Personal Branding Strategy
- How Being Lazy Can Be Your Best Personal Branding Strategy
- How To Amplify Your Personal Brand Through Thought Leadership In 2014
- Personal Branding is Business Branding: An A to Z Guide
- A Case Study: Using Photographs to Elevate Your Personal Brand