“Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps”

Today I found a worth reading article “Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps”, by Norm Smallwood, source: Harvard Buiness Review.

“You probably already have a personal leadership brand. But do you have the right one?

The question is not trivial. A leadership brand conveys your identity and distinctiveness as a leader. It communicates the value you offer. If you have the wrong leadership brand for the position you have, or the position you want, then your work is not having the impact it could. A strong personal leadership brand allows all that’s powerful and effective about your leadership to become known to your colleagues, enabling you to generate maximum value.

Choosing a leadership brand can help give you focus.

When you clearly identify what you want to be known for, it is easier to let go of the tasks and projects that do not let you deliver on that brand. Instead, you can concentrate on the activities that do.

So how do you build a leadership brand? My co-author Dave Ulrich and I came up with these five steps…..

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Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps

Building a Leadership Brand
by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood.