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The Executive Connections LLC “Managing Your Personal Brand” 3-part series is designed to guide you to reflect on where your Personal Brand is and where it’s headed.

If you haven’t completed Part 1: Your Personal Brand “Year in Review” and Part 2: Your Personal Brand Vison, start there first.

Next, in the final step, you will  create an actionable Personal Brand Plan that will support you to take your personal brand to the next level.

Download MYPB Part 3: Your Personal Brand Action Plan

Ready for additional support to help raise your personal brand game? We invite you to learn more about our about our Personal Branding offerings, including a visit to our Personal Branding Retreat Center, personal brand assessments, and more. Contact us directly for a complimentary 30-minute Personal Brand consultation with Lola White or Jeff Gundersen.

The Executive Connections LLC “Managing Your Personal Brand” 3-part series focuses on helping you reflect on, take inventory of, and create an actionable Personal Brand Plan that will support your personal brand for 2012 and beyond.

If you haven’t completed Part 1: Your Personal Brand “Year in Review,” start there first.

Next, in Part 2, you shift from assessing current and past performance to focusing on future career and personal brand direction. The central question here is: “What is the future for my personal brand that will be most inspiring, challenging and rewarding?” What you want to get to is a long-term vision (that’s consistent with your personal values) and then define 3 specific, measurable 2012 goals that are a pathway to achieving that vision.

Download MYPB Part 2: Your Personal Brand Vision

In Part 3, you’ll create more granular action plans for achieving each of these 3 specific goals.

By Jeff Gundersen, Founder & CEO

I’m frequently asked by CEOs and other C-level clients, “How do I identify and secure a Board of Directors position?”

Serving on Boards—especially the right ones—can be a credibility builder. It is also a gateway to personal development and building new, lasting relationships that feed into the fulfillment of your life purpose and are aligned with your passions. We tell our clients who are interested in pursuing a meaningful Board role, “Start with your personal brand.” Take stock of your vision, purpose, values, passions, strengths, and goals, then identify organizations that are a match with these essential parts of who you are. This will ensure a better possibility of being satisfied by your service.

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by Lola White At Executive Connections LLC

We are always creating new ways to streamline the personal branding process, not only for our clients but also for ourselves. One approach we’ve found that works really well for remaining “on brand” is to create an annual theme.

Towards the end of each year, we set aside time to reflect on what we need to take our business (and our own personal brands) to the next level in the following year. We make a list of “what’s in” and “what’s out” for our personal brands in the new year. One of the new best practices that’s in for us, is a one-sentence theme that helps keeps us focused on what we want to achieve in the coming year.

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