How to MAKE IT! Me Inc – The only person interested and in control of your career or business and knows it the best is YOU. Take the time to ensure that your personal brand is clear and consistent so that the people that need to know about you can clearly understand what it is you have to offer in terms of unique skills and strengths. Achievements – It’s not… Read More »6 Surefire Strategies to Survive in Your Career
Never underestimate your strengths. The things that you do so naturally are sometimes ignored. Very often the skills that we use every day that come to us so easily are the ones that we almost take for granted. Because they really are no effort for us we run the risk of not leveraging them as much as we should. Others see those unique skills much more clearly and because… Read More »Are you leveraging your natural strengths?
This summer in the UK saw a new move by the agents and PR staff for a UK soccer player Michael Owen – A 32 page Personal Brand Portfolio! Owen was being released by his then soccer club, Newcastle United and was looking for a new home – ideally in the UK Premier league. The UK sports press was not very complimentary about his chances as he had a… Read More »Can you compete with a $100,000 a week soccer player?
I am currently working with the author of this book, Lisa Nirell, as my coach and really enjoying her guidance, mentoring and challenging. Much of what I am delving in to is covered in part by her book. At last a business coaching book that understands the challenges entrepreneurs face at various levels of their business growth and offers practical, realistic and challenging solutions to stimulate action and moving… Read More »Energize Growth – NOW
A good friend once said to me that on your birthday you should always try to do something you have never done before. It's a great philosophy. My son Aidan turned 9 last weekend and he had a party for a handful of his friends. We had given him a few options, but one that seemed to really interest him was Circus School! Well that certainly fell in the… Read More »Are you being memorable enough?
When I came to Canada over 12 years ago amongst the many pieces of advice I received was "If you are going to live in Canada then you need to get in to winter sports" The closest I ever got to Canada and winter sports in the UK was watching Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards compete on the ski hill at the Calgary Olympics. Amazingly for an Englishman who had hardly… Read More »Winter sports? – I am NOT Canadian!
You get called to your new bosses office for a chat – things might appear a little ominous You agree that things have not gone as well as you expected, but then it is the economy after all, but since you have been in the job you have had made some significant changes for the good, saved the company so money and set it on a better track. There are some… Read More »You’re so Thain, you probably think this post is about you
There seems to be a constant blur between what some people say is personal branding and what others think it is, it is naturally going to happen as it's importance rises and a number of articles have been written on the subject recently and I am sure we will continue to see a grwoth in the for and against camps. One such area of confusion is in social media and… Read More »I want to be online – should I tweet, blog or friend?
On the twelfth day of Christmas my brand strategist advised to me; Continue to brand, Network, network, network, Make your brand mark, Dump the resume, Build a communications plan, Have a clear PBS, Know your key strengths, Make.. it… u-n-i-q-u-e. Decide on a niche, Conduct a 360, Set measurable goals, and have very clear and focused VP’s. Now that you have clearly defined what your personal brand… Read More »12 Days of Personal Branding – Day 12
On the eleventh day of Christmas my brand strategist advised to me; Network, network, network, Make your brand mark, Dump the resume, Build a communications plan, Have a clear PBS, Know your key strengths, Make.. it… u-n-i-q-u-e. Decide on a niche, Conduct a 360, Set measurable goals, and have very clear and focused VP’s. Too many times we come to reply on our network when we want… Read More »12 Days of Personal Branding – Day 11