Strong personal brands are the foundation of inspirational leadership. Discover how you can build your brand and become a more effective as a leader and manager of others. Leading from your beliefs and values, knowing what you stand for and being able to articulate that will help you inspire others to follow your vision. Discover how your unique creative DNA is instrumental to your leadership presence.
Your Are Your Own Brand
Branding on a business-level is common, but today branding is becoming just as important on a personal level.
In this course you will have an opportunity to learn more about yourself so you can identify your unique skills, talents, values and beliefs. Your hard-wiring. Your DNA: what makes you uniquely you. These areas combine to form the cornerstones of your personal brand. After exploring where your passions lie, defining your strengths and what skills sets you truly enjoy doing , we will look to build a blueprint of what is need to grow your career.
Strong personal brands don’t happen by accident. This course is about putting time into building your personal brand and growing your career. We will focus on who you are, your history, your stories, your skill sets, your great success and your great failures to help understand what you stand for. We will look at you as a product and explore what you offer the market place: both your attributes and your drags. We will look at how you market your brand: who needs to know about your team and your work? We will explore what the role of networking is when building strong brands and finally how you can support yourself through your career to continue to grow and evolve into the most authentic, impactful leader you can be.
Building Your Leadership Brand
As a leader, you need to connect with your team and those you want to influence. Authenticity is key. When we are leading others we need to get the buy-in and effort of other people to enact our vision. Our ability to communicate with passion and articulate concisely our message is key.
In this course we will uncover your values, build your communication skills and uncover your unique vision of the world and how you wish to lead others. We will focus on who you are, your history, your stories, your skill sets, your great successes and your great failures. We will look at you as a product and explore what you offer the market place: both your attributes and your drags. We will look at how you market your brand, who needs to know about your team and your work. What the role of networking is when building strong brands and finally how you can support yourself through your career to continue to grow and evolve into the most authentic, impactful leader you can be.
Storytelling in Leadership
All leaders need to be able to inspire others to follow their vision. Being able to use stories to emotionally connect with your listeners is part of the leader’s toolbox. Having your words, body and voice all sending a congruent message leads to impact. Painting pictures, using metaphors, connecting your story to the listeners needs and aspirations all are part of leadership storytelling.
In this course we will look how to use stories to make your message compelling and lead your team to action.
Leading Women
Navigating effectively with presence in a male dominated organization can be challenging for many women. Resilience, tenacity, and ability to deliver beyond expectations are just part of the journey from associate to managing director. Exploring vocal tone, speaking with demand, using invitation effectively as well as physical presence and handling difficult people and situations are explored in this women only workshop.