Becoming Highly Self-Aware Can Help You Build a Stronger Personal Brand and Become a Better Leader – Here’s How
One of the most valuable assets you can possess when it comes to building your personal brand is a strong sense of self-awareness. When you introspectively understand your own thoughts, emotions, strengths, and weaknesses and how you come across to others, you gain the capacity to mould your brand and your impact. This is also […]
Silence Isn’t Golden – Effective and Authentic Self-Advocacy is Key to Career Success
Do you ever find yourself holding back when it comes to speaking up about your accomplishments? Does the mere thought of self-promotion make you feel a hint of nausea creeping in? Rest assured, you’re not alone. Many of us shy away from opening up about our abilities due to the fear of appearing phoney or […]
Get Aligned, Get In Line
Get Aligned, Get In Line. So you’ve got a great personal leadership brand, you know what it stands for and you have been successful in harnessing the power of storytelling to link the brand to your life journey? That’s still not enough because, leaders pre-eminently do not exist in a vacuum. Their personal leadership brands […]
Top tips for your personal leadership brand
Top tips for marketing your personal leadership brand. After all your hard work in creating and building your personal leadership brand, the final step is to make sure it’s noticed by the audiences that count to you. Over the past five blogs, we’ve explored together what a personal leadership brand is and what goes into […]
What kind of a leader do you want to be?
What kind of leader do you want to be? In this blog, I’d like to look a little more deeply into what goes into making a leader’s personal brand. Leaders’ brands must go beyond communicating who they are, they must also indicate how they will lead, what gives them the edge and what unique value […]
Understanding context
My previous blog argued that a leader’s personal must, first and foremost, communicate not only who they are but what they stand for, essentially acting as a blueprint for how they act. This link between belief and action creates the authenticity without which no leader can survive. Now I want to explore the concept of […]