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7 Ps of Personal Leadership Progress
Just because we’re in the middle of a pandemic, doesn’t mean you don’t want to progress your career. How do you avoid the out-of-sight-out-of-mind culture that a flexible workplace can have on your personal brand? How do you remain relevant? In short, how do you get promoted? Here are seven...
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Why your weaknesses are hard to spot
As part of my Brandheart personal branding process, I take each client through a 360 reputation survey. The client supplies me with names of people who know him or her well, and...
Your Cherries Are In The Wrong Place
Have you ever stood in a fuggy dojo with your hand in a vice grip while your knuckles are being examined by a sweaty Sensei? No? Me neither. It was a fellow karateka who pointed...
No Excuses
No Excuses. That’s the line on my running partner’s What’s App profile. Which makes thinking of a reason to pull out of a 5am morning run impossible. Or at best, awkward. Rather...
Unconscious Bias Could Be Holding You Back
Think about something you’re attached to. Let’s say it’s your reputation for being a great speaker, or the results from your banting diet, or your love of cats. You work hard at...
Is Your Personal Brand Future-Proof?
First we had IQ. Then we had EQ. Now we have AQ. AQ, if you haven't come across it yet, is your Adaptability Quotient. It measures how well you adapt to change. Specifically,...
For All Intensive Purposes
Growing up in peri-urban suburbia, the neighbour behind us was a man called Vasco. My father, trying to tame the patch of veld we called a garden, was often outside, spade in...
Ageing Is Optional
Blow-drying my hair at the gym this morning, I overheard a menopause conversation between the three thirty-somethings standing at the mirror next to me. There was the brunette,...
Do You Self-Care?
The first time I considered self-care as an option was in a workshop about hormones. Hot flushes, uncontrollable peevishness and a refusal to pop a pill to fix it, saw me sitting...
What’s YOUR Personal Leadership Brand?
By now you know that personal branding is not about changing who you are, but doing more of what you’re already doing right. It's about discovering your unique talents and using...
Scared Silly
I have two big fears in life. Fear 1: Not getting to the buffet table in time Yes it’s a privileged fear. It’s also irrational, because there’s usually plenty of the good stuff....
Why your weaknesses are hard to spot
As part of my Brandheart personal branding process, I take each client through a 360 reputation survey. The client supplies me with names of people who know him or her well, and...
Your Cherries Are In The Wrong Place
Have you ever stood in a fuggy dojo with your hand in a vice grip while your knuckles are being examined by a sweaty Sensei? No? Me neither. It was a fellow karateka who pointed...
No Excuses
No Excuses. That’s the line on my running partner’s What’s App profile. Which makes thinking of a reason to pull out of a 5am morning run impossible. Or at best, awkward. Rather...
Unconscious Bias Could Be Holding You Back
Think about something you’re attached to. Let’s say it’s your reputation for being a great speaker, or the results from your banting diet, or your love of cats. You work hard at...
Is Your Personal Brand Future-Proof?
First we had IQ. Then we had EQ. Now we have AQ. AQ, if you haven't come across it yet, is your Adaptability Quotient. It measures how well you adapt to change. Specifically,...
For All Intensive Purposes
Growing up in peri-urban suburbia, the neighbour behind us was a man called Vasco. My father, trying to tame the patch of veld we called a garden, was often outside, spade in...
Ageing Is Optional
Blow-drying my hair at the gym this morning, I overheard a menopause conversation between the three thirty-somethings standing at the mirror next to me. There was the brunette,...
Do You Self-Care?
The first time I considered self-care as an option was in a workshop about hormones. Hot flushes, uncontrollable peevishness and a refusal to pop a pill to fix it, saw me sitting...
20 Things You Can Teach Your Children About Reputation
Watching my children walk back into the classroom on the first day of school this week brought back memories of my own first days in a new grade. Would the teacher be nice? Would...
3 Reasons Why Quitting Is Good For Your Personal Brand
There’s something cathartic about quitting. Like that situation where your client found fault with your work, ignored your recommendation and landed up losing money on the deal....
Crafting your Personal Mission Statement
The other day I was writing a social media post on company mission statements and got to wonder how many people have a personal mission statement. It sounds so stuffy – personal...
3 Common Personal Branding Mistakes to Avoid
Whether you’re aware of it, consciously work at it, or completely disregard it, you have a reputation.  The only way to intentionally influence your reputation is to put thought...
7 Ways You’re Branding Yourself as Old
I bet you wouldn’t introduce yourself as someone who is worn-out, irrelevant, stuck in your ways, inflexible and boring, would you? Yet this can easily be communicated by your...
25 Ways Running a Business is like Raising a Child
As parents we know it takes time, energy and an emotional roller-coaster ride to raise a happy, balanced child. Charming and hysterically funny one minute, unashamedly...
How To Tell What Makes You Special, Different And Better
A brand is not a brand until it has a clear idea about who it is, what problem it solves and why it’s different from its competitors. Before any (credible) graphic designer can...
The 5 Most Important Personal Branding Skills for Personal Assistants
Gone are the days when personal assistants were needed to simply type and make travel arrangements. Often the executive herself is able to tick these off the list, which means...
Especially for Women: 10 Ways Your Body Language Hurts Your Career
You can spot them in the change rooms - the ones who spread their clothes, towel and toiletries all over the outsized red bench. They stand directly in the middle of the space...
18 Ways Personal Branding Helps Your Business
If you want to become more alive and do the work that you’re most proud of, then it pays to get in touch with your personal brand. Like your purpose, personal branding isn't...
What Your Profile Picture Says About You
Have you ever wondered what your online profile photos actually say about you? Does the half-smile make you look mysterious, or miserable? Is the toothy grin likeable or cheesy?...
5 Personal Branding Trends That Will Impact Your Success in 2015 (in under 200 words)
Adapted from the Forbes article by William Arruda – one of the world’s leading personal branding specialists – here are 5 trends that will impact your success in 2015: Digital...
How To Keep Building Your Personal Brand in the Holidays
You’ve worked really hard all year to build your Wow Factor. You’ve developed your skills and competencies and have learned how to present them in a way that’s charismatic and...
Are Success And Likeability Mutually Exclusive?
Lately I’ve had this insatiable appetite for learning about women in leadership. Who are they? What drives them? What sacrifices do they make? How successful are they really? The...
7 Ways to Improve Your Follow Up Emails
At age 13 I realised that business people don’t do what they say they’ll do. (I was trying to find a holiday job and the businesses I approached didn't get back to me like they...
The One Simple Thing You Need To Do To Attract More Customers
Have you ever felt personally victimised by the chirping of crickets? I have. You know what I mean – the days when no one calls, no one emails and even the waiter at the network...
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