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"Results Derived from Within"
Written by:
Vickie Bevenour, a Professional Certified
Coach, PCC
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May 2008
Your Personal
Brand – Part 2 Your Product
Last month’s newsletter ended with the following two questions:
1. Do you want to be the caller ID that everyone picks up, or the one that goes to voice mail?
2. Do you want to be the person that others walk toward, or the person they try to avoid?
After learning about “persona”, how did you decide to answer these questions? What actions have you taken to ensure that you received the desired response?
This month we will continue our discussion from Susan Hodgkinson’s book,
The Leader’s Edge, Using Personal Branding to Drive Performance and
Profit. The method that she uses to help business professionals understand, define and leverage their brands is called the 5 P’s of Leadership which are: Persona, Product, Packaging, Promotion and Permission. In this newsletter, we will focus on the second of these, product.
It is your personal and professional responsibility to accurately and precisely communicate what you are good at to other individuals within your organization and our marketplace. This is important to ensure that all people that you interface with know what you are good at and where you excel in business. If you choose not to do this, you are actively making the choice to potentially be: overlooked for the next promotion, not picked for the high profile projects and maybe even find yourself in a “dead end” job. If one of these unfortunate events does happen to you, it could be a direct result of you not promoting your product.
Ms. Hodgkinson believes that excellent leaders have four components to their “product”, which are:
· A strategic frame of reference – the ability to understand where
your business needs to be in three to five years.
· Continuous learning – a commitment to improve your skills by
taking on more challenging assignments.
· The ability to delegate and grow talent – building a great team and then giving them the opportunity to grow and stretch in their roles.
· Risk taking and innovation – There is a huge need for leaders who have a successful track record of taking risks and innovating.
For your homework exercise, use the list above as a guide and make a list of three things that you do really well in each category. Then list three business examples for each of the strengths that you listed. The pairing of your accomplishments with your strengths is your product for your personal brand statement.
Next, take a minute to tell someone your short (three sentences) story of your success. After this has been completed in a simple factual manner, you will be amazed at how people will begin to take notice of your contributions.
Congratulations, you have
taken the next step to deriving results from within.
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with a friend or colleague. As always, YOUR SUCCESS IS MY
GREATEST PLEASURE.
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