#messaging matters.
One of the fundamentals of brand leadership that we teach in our live, facilitated Summit and our self-paced online course is to get clear on our purpose and build our compelling brand narrative around it.
Therefore, this issue is chock-full of tools to direct our attention to being on purpose:
- Find your two-word purpose with this affordable 10-minute tool
- Invest in a Dream Book, the ultimate daily tool to remind us to lead on purpose (I use it every day and give it as a gift.)
- Listen to The Great Work of Your Life segment on the power of purpose and get jazzed
- Schedule 90 minutes to co-create your Brand Manifesto and gain clarity, once and for all, on why you exist to serve.
- Check out Simon Sinek’s TEDTalk on Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Action, one of the all-time most viewed in the world
#BrandOnPurpose
Being a steward of our executive personal brands is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a must-have strategy for ourselves, our teams and our organizations.
That’s our wish for you, to pursue what rings your bells and message it in an authentic way so that it resonates with your “beloved avatar” (target audience) and brings you the impact and fulfillment you deserve.
#RiseAbovetheNoise
Your “what” is easier for your audience to understand when you know your “why.”
Do you feel stuck, not sure what to do next? Feeling just a little passionless or purposeless or totally overwhelmed? Maybe experienced a recent loss in employment and/or direction and recovery has been slower than normal? How about knowing for sure that you aren’t in the right place, but struggling to articulate what “the right place” looks like?
Then a Brand Manifesto is for you. This is a bespoke process where you will join an elite group of people who have committed the time and energy to “give words” to their true north and calling. Arguably one of the most important exercises you will engage in for your career. A vital component of leadership and personal development, it will ground you in your core values and enable you to say yes to areas where you have quantifiable impact and say no respectfully to things that don’t serve you anymore. Even if “what” you do changes throughout time, you will always be guided by your “why.” You will leave with a succinct one-pager that captures:
- Your purpose (two words)
- Your “why” statement (one sentence)
- Your hows (up to nine)
