Spring Clean Your Personal Brand: Three Bad Habits To Throw Out This Spring
Spring is here! That means ditching bad habits and letting go of what’s not working in your life. This includes bad personal branding habits. This spring, clean out your personal brand to get rid of bad habits that may be damaging your credibility. Start with these: Bad Habit 1: Complacency about your personal brand One […]
Business is a game, learn how to play it
Business is a game and wee cannot deny that men and women approach the world of business differently. Men use their business relationships – often it’s about building a network – pure and simple. By and large, men are not at work to find meaning or fulfilment. They are there to play a game and […]
Understand your brand and its value
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I thought a good place to end this series of blogs on particular issues relating to women and personal branding would be with a reminder of how important it is to understand your brand at the most granular level possible. This is true for everybody, of course, but it is of particular value to women […]
Think alliances rather than networks
Think alliances rather than networks. It’s a cliché: get out there and build your network because it is your launchpad. Like all clichés, it holds a grain of truth—but, as always, the devil is in the detail. In the workplace, all networks are not equal. Women seem particularly good at building deep but narrow networks […]
Personal branding: 6 Must-Know Tips for Professionals
According to Joseph Lui, Personal branding is a way of establishing and consistently reinforcing who you are and what you stand for in your career and life. Everything you do either strengthens or dilutes the personal brand you’re trying to create. Developing a personal brand might sound challenging, but there are incremental steps you can […]
Why personal branding for women matters
It is indisputable that building a personal brand is key to progressing one’s career. People who have been exposed to personal branding understand that it is not always hard work that helps you get ahead. Perceptions help shape how others behave toward you and if the perceptions others have of you are not aligned to […]