With many career successes, you may be well aware of your unique promise of value, but your own assessment of yourself is just one opinion. Soliciting feedback from those around you will help you distinguish your top brand attributes and uncover your authentic personal brand.
What better indicator of your greatest strengths and assets than what those who work with you have to say about you?
They are in a position to know how you use your strengths to make things happen and benefit the company.
They’ve seen you in action many times, tackling impossible challenges, re-engineering failing operations, driving bottom line profitability, etc.
Read the full post at the Brand-Yourself Blog . . .
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Meg,
Great post, personal branding truly is about what others are saying about you versus what you are saying about yourself. Sometimes it is the basics or little things that have the greatest impact towards helping us reach our career and life goals.
Hajj
Hey Hajj,
Thanks for commenting.
I think the exercise of asking for feedback helps us get the proper perspective on ourselves. Even with introspection, sometimes we just can’t see what our own defining strengths and drivers are. We need to bounce it off others who’ve seen us in action.
-Meg
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