From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvEfWrDOfNk
Personal Brand Statement
From: https://www.personalbrandingblog.com/personal-brand-traits/
From Stephanie jones article: mar5, 2024, 8 Personal Brand Traits (With Examples)
Components of a Strong Personal Brand Statement
- Clarity: Your statement should be understandable to anyone, even those outside your industry.
- Conciseness: Keep it short. A good brand statement delivers its punch in just a few words.
- Uniqueness: Highlight what sets you apart from others.
- Passion: Convey your enthusiasm and dedication.
- Value: Explain how you add value or solve problems for your target audience.
Steps to Craft Your Personal Brand Statement
- Identify Your Unique Attributes:List your strengths, skills, and passions. Consider what makes you different from your peers.
- Define Your Audience: Understand who you’re trying to reach and what they value.
- Articulate Your Value Proposition:Summarize how you can solve problems or add value for your audience.
- Combine and Refine: Merge your unique attributes, audience understanding, and value proposition into a cohesive statement. Then, refine it until it’s clear and concise.
Examples of Effective Personal Brand Statements
- I empower small business owners to showcase their brand through innovative marketing strategies, creating memorable online experiences.
- As a passionate environmental advocate, I drive sustainable practices in businesses, promoting a greener, healthier planet for futuregenerations.
Tips for Improvement
- Test Your Statement: Share it with mentors, peers, and your target audience. Ask for feedback and adjust accordingly.
- Live Your Statement: Ensure your actions, online presence, and professional interactions reflect your brand statement.
- Evolve as Needed: Your personal brand will grow and change. Regularly revisit and revise your statement to keep it aligned with your current values and goals.
Guide to Emotional Intelligence At Work
Psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of the groundbreaking book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, outlined a number of personality and behavioral traits he uses to evaluate emotional intelligence:
- Self Awareness involves the ability to recognize your own emotions, choices, and actions, as well as their potential effects on others. People with a high degree of self-awareness have a solid understanding of their own emotions, strengths, weaknesses, and drivers. They’re honest with themselves and others and know their values and goals. They’re confident but aware of their limitations, and are willing to speak about themselves in a frank, non-defensive manner.
- Self-regulation refers to the ability to process and express emotions constructively, adapt to changes flexibly, and manage conflict effectively. People who are good at self-regulation are able to manage their emotions so that they don’t control their words and actions. While they feel bad moods and impulses as much as anyone, they don’t rush to action. They tend to be reflective, thoughtful, and comfortable with ambiguity, uncertainty, and change.
- Social Skills mean you’re an active listener and a strong communicator who can form high-trust relationships. People with social skills are excellent team players who can move an agenda along and keep focus while also remaining aware of the emotional climate of the group and responding as needed. They’re excellent at making connections, networking, and bringing people together to work on projects.
- Empathy allows you to interpret other people’s emotions and respond in a compassionate and validating way. Having empathy doesn’t mean you’re unwilling or unable to make tough decisions for fear of hurting someone’s feelings. It simply means you’re aware of those feelings and take into consideration the impact of your words and actions. Empathetic people are willing to share their own worries and concerns and openly acknowledge others’ emotions.
- Motivation refers to the drive to pursue your goals, seek out learning experiences, and continue to evolve as a person.
Review and reflect.
Think back on your interactions periodically with emotional intelligence in mind. Consider what went well and what could have gone better. Remember that any progress is a win and will keep you moving in the right direction.
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Personal Branding with an inner monologue (Thoughts from one point of view)
No Inner monolog, a different way to reflect on your Personal Branding journey.
When thinking about Personal Branding, your objective is for people to know of you and feel like they know you. The advice on this site is limited to those who have an inner monologue.
Shockingly, up to 50% of people have no inner monologue. They remember and process information differently than those who have an inner monologue. And, they are just as shocked to learn some people have an inner monologue.
If you are late to the knowledge of this understanding, you are not alone. I only read about this in the last few days. This took me down a rabbit hole of articles and videos explaining this phenomenon. I have an inner monologue, both voice and pictures. It is like I have a narrated movie in my mind most of the time.
Ironically, there are two camps, with and without an inner monologue. Neither camp was aware of the other and both are befuddled in trying to comprehend the opposite of their personal experience. I suspect that 90% of people in the world are not aware that 50% of their family and human interaction may not think or process the world the way they do.
So, how would you go about your personal branding journey without an inner voice to use to reflect on your actions.
I do not know.
I have an inner voice-over monolog. Like a movie being narrated in real time while I am involved with day to day activities. I use this voice to analyze my actions. It happens automatically, it is unstoppable and it continues to speak no matter what I do. It is especially active in solving an issue, when I try to sleep.
Personal branding is putting yourself and your thoughts out there for people to read and for them to respond. It is to build trust in others. Here are things I use to connect with others...
- I try to imagine what other people think is interesting and try to accommodate a different perspective.
- I use my inner monologue to review what is the most likely outcome of the audience reading/listening to my thoughts.
- If it is good, I continue, If not I don't continue.
Everything on this site is from the inner monologue perspective. I had not considered a different way to organize and process information. Again, it was shocking to know that brain usage could be vastly different in other people. It is possible that 50% of the population has no inner monologue and 50% do.
If you have no inner monologue, please provide your thoughts. I would love your perspective.
I am blind to your way of thinking. I have no context to hear that perspective, because my life experience is with an inner monologue.
Send me an email at andy@40x50.com discussing this in a podcast or interview would be fascinating.
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Here are some other article links to get you started in figuring out the population that is not like you.
https://www.boredpanda.com/person-surprised-most-people-have-internal-monologue/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-experience-science-1.5486969
https://www.quora.com/Are-people-who-have-no-inner-monologues-still-capable-of-self-reflection
https://www.upworthy.com/woman-shares-life-without-inner-monologue