The Fundamental Professional Need Of 2019: Owning A Personal Brand
Mar 16, 2019 • 5 views
With the time everything is evolving. With this evolution the conventional professional interaction is also changing. The biggest asset to any professional individual in the coming era is owning a personal brand.
Personal branding is the process of developing a "mark" that is created around your name or your career. You use this "mark" to express and communicate your skills, personality, and values. And everyone have something unique about their skills, personality, and values that they can express.We all can be a brand and cultivate our power to stand out and be unique. All you need to do is, identify what is the thing that makes you unique.
Following are the points about establishment of a Personal Brand:
Identify Your Uniqueness and Your Strengths:
This is the core of Personal Brand. What are the things that make you unique as a person. Think about the characteristics and strengths you’ve built in your career (this can be any little thing, but the strengths list is never empty for anyone). Growth never stops, you will add up more strengths and characteristics with time. If you are stuck, think about that “one thing” that everyone says you rock at. If you're still stuck, ask others.But, at the end of the day, the only person who can identify your uniqueness is YOU.
Be Yourself Find your own style: You don’t have to do what everyone else is doing and just follow the crowd. Use your style and uniqueness to attract the clientele that you desire. Find your own style and create a new set of footprints for others to follow in.
Own Your Space: Once you’ve identified your uniqueness and strengths, perfect them. You can never stop learning. Your brand helps you in constant stretching of your mind and let you brainstorm about new ideas and possibilities with the whole world. These steps may look small but have great impacts and effects associated with them. Follow the chain Connect -> Interact -> Learn -> Grow -> Evolve. Your network carries great potential to take you places.
Share Your Knowledge: Do interact with others and mutually help in the process of learning. It’s not enough to learn it; share your knowledge by helping others. This is where you prove you know your stuff and gain exposure from doing so. Personal brand serve the purpose of Community building, every brings their best on the table and help themselves and others to grow, just find your niche and build/find your community and contribute towards it. Its so important to build communities and being part of them.
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