Welcome to the Saturday Summary.
What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary
This week the focus is on our personal brand with a variety of activities for you to consider and try out. Discover your style, benchmark others, and take steps to get a jump start.
Personal Brand Style. This first post of the week provides some activities to help us discover our personal brand style. What is the message we currently convey? What do we want to convey?
5 Steps to Jump Start Your Personal Brand. We all have a personal brand – intentional or not. This post provides 5 ideas to start to prioritize an intentional approach.
Benchmarking for Our Personal Brand. At work, we benchmark many things. What if we applied this approach to our personal brand? This post explores what we might consider benchmarking.
Do Personal Brands Open Doors or Box Us In? The title says it all. Some believe personal branding pigeonholes us into one thing or another. My POV is that more focus = more opportunity.
Roll Out the Red Carpet: Personal Awards. This post is a fun tie to awards season. Considering your last year through this lens might give some unique insight for your performance review.
What I’ve Listened To – PodList
This week, the podcasts cover daily happiness, the “job” of life, the importance of having a vision for our lives, and how the idea of power is shifting.
The Small Shifts that Lead to Big Change. 9 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. Anne-Laure Le Cunff shares ideas from her book Tiny Experiments. She shows us how an experimental mindset can turn challenges into self-discovery. I especially liked the discussion of setting a pact vs. a goal.
10 Unique Ways to Boost Your Happiness and Creativity. 9 minutes. Optimal Work Daily. This podcast explores strategies that shift our perspective and embrace curiosity to inspire joy.
Life Administration is Real Work. 5 minutes. Before Breakfast. Sometimes we can forget the time that simple life management projects take. This podcast reminds us to set aside the time.
The 10-Year Plan: A Roadmap for Designing Your Dream Life. 20 minutes. Everyday Better with Leah Smart. This podcast introduces the 10-year plan and discusses how it helps create the life we want.
The Power Code. 16 minutes. The Next Big Idea Daily. This episode covers key points from The Power Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. They cover why power isn’t working and how to remake it in a new way.
What I’ve Been Up To
This week, I worked on a new idea and personal brand activities. The “ah ha” came when I realized that before we start creating a strategy for our personal brand, we should step back and do an audit first. Mirrored after the marketing 5 C’s approach, this new workbook focuses on the 5 C’s of personal branding – Company (you, the MeEO), Customers (your professional audience), Creators (the thought leaders you admire in your industry), Climate (the trends impacting your profession and industry), and Collaborators (those who support you on your personal brand journey).
Outside of work, warm days were again focused on spending time outdoors walking and cleaning up the outdoor spaces for summer. Of course, the latter half of the week involved creating brackets and watching the frenzy that the start of March Madness brings.
What Do You Think?
Do you plan to dig in and complete some of the personal branding activities?
What tiny experiments might you put into your life next week?
What are your thoughts on leveraging the 5C’s to consider our personal brand?