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Managing Your Personal Brand—Create the Vision
October 2008


The last three Executive Connections ezines of 2008 (October, November and December) will focus on the process of reflecting on and planning for your personal brand development in 2009. We're including exercises in each ezine to help you navigate this process. THE GOAL is to create by the end of the year an actionable PERSONAL BRAND PLAN that you can begin working as soon as the new year begins, so that you can jump start the process.

What is your vision for your personal brand for 2009?
Where are you going? What concrete steps/milestones can you set (and achieve) that will build your personal brand and take it to the next level?

This is definitely time for taking stock of your parent company/holding company. Are you in the right place for the long-term? Or, are you tolerating a senior leadership team that is not a match with your personal values? In the rapidly changing global economy, this is about being in the right organization (for you), so this is one of the first issues to address.

This is also a good time to reflect on your position, duties and responsibilities, and how you can kick things up a notch. If you are the president of your business, what's required to move up and get the CEO title? If you are the CMO or COO, what's required to get to the president role? One thing is clear: If YOU are not thinking about this and creating a pro-active plan for making this happen, probably no one is.
 

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Managing Your Personal Brand
PART ONE

October 2008

Unwanted & Disconnected Ex-pat
September 2008

How Fast to Move in a New Position
July 2008

Helpless in the Financial Meltdown
June 2008

Turnaround President Without Time For A Personal Life
May 2008

Caught in Sub-Prime Crisis
April 2008

CEO Merged Out
March 2008

Going Over My Boss's Head
February 2008

Doing It All" and the Fast Track
January 2008

Repatriating to the U.S. after Global Assignment
December 2007

Displaced During Restructuring and Downsizing
November 2007

Sales Incentive Program Change Means Less Income...What to Do?
October 2007

President’s Company Selling – What’s Next?
September 2007

Personal Brand Development
August 2007

My CEO resigned – What Do I Do?
July 2007

Replacing Founding Principals
June 2007

Search For The Right Successor
June 2007

Executive Development
May 2007

Changing Categories – Hire An Executive Coach?
May 2007

Protection And Incentives Upon Change Of Control
April 2007

Career Moves / Opportunities
April 2007


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