5 Things You Can Do to Have a Relevant Personal Brand
There are a lot of skills that you should be acquiring and honing right now, such as better writing skills, interpersonal skills and analytical skills. Although each of these skills is generally important for almost everyone, regardless of age and position, there is something more important that people are going to have to focus on …
5 Rules for Maintaining Your Brand Once You Have the Job
You’ve worked hard to build your brand in order to land a job. Now you have a job (yay!), so what happens to your brand? Does it get consumed by your employer, or should you continue to develop it?
1. Devote XX amount of time each week to your brand.Just like before you landed …
Employee Participation Breeds Recognition
Successful personal branding tactics that existed before social media are often still useful today. Here are some examples from my own career.
Wherever I’ve worked, the personal brand I’ve tried to build is to be known as someone who is:
Professional Helpful Intellectually honest Successful Getting things done Open to Always seeking constructive criticismIn …
How Your Personal Brand Handles Multiple Hats
“I have many roles, hats if you will. Does that mean I should have an online profile for each?” asked an attendee at the fifth annual Massachusetts Conference for Women.
This is a great question. In fact, there were 11 great questions that were asked during the Q & A portion of my presentation on …
Personal Branding with a Punch and Some Cookies
Typically, it’s not the best, but the one who can take the stress and makes it to the top of any company, industry or career path is the person who can take a punch, get past the burn and play injured that makes it to number one. It’s the person who cleans and dresses their …
3 Step Personal Branding System
A lot of people I’ve spoken to don’t know where to start when it comes to personal branding, so today I wanted to focus on how to build your own personal branding system by modeling my own. A personal branding system is how you consume, organize and share information every single day in order to …
Personal Branding Blog: Lisa Orrell
Today, I spoke to Lisa Orrell, who is The Generation Relations Expert and author of “Millennials Into Leadership.” In this interview, Lisa explains some Gen-Y stereotypes, what it takes to be a millennial leader, what millennials complain about in the workplace, and how she’s built her own personal brand.
Name at least 3 Millennial stereotypes…9 Action Items to Navigate the Coming Decade of 10% Unemployment
Are you ready to navigate the coming decade of 10% unemployment?
The jobless rate is at its highest level since 1983 at 10%, this is known as the U3 unemployment rate. An even more comprehensive measure of unemployment, known as the U6, which includes all marginally attached workers, puts the unemployment rate at 17.2%. That …
Personal Branding Interview: Michael Beer
Today, I spoke to Michael Beer, who is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School and author of High Commitment, High Performance. In this interview, Michael discusses how high commitment yields high performance, the six barriers to commitment, how people can succeed in a shifting workplace environment, why leaders need to be transparent and how …
Personal Branding Interview: Dennis Crowley
Today, I spoke to Dennis Crowley, who is the co-founder of foursquare and previously founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005. In this interview, we go over his latest and very popular startup called foursquare, as well as talk entrepreneurship, teaching and Family …