These posts discuss the importance of personal impact and offer guidance on improving it.
Is your LinkedIn profile looking neglected or worse still, non-existent? When was the last time you did a LinkedIn profile update? I have found that there are several reasons that people don’t do this: Not into social media/want to maintain privacy. Don’t see it as important. Time. To tackle the first reason, it is true that by [...]
Whether you like it or not, when others encounter you they form a perception of you. Whilst you cannot control what people think about you, you can influence it through your Personal Impact. The best professionals understand that creating the Personal Impact they want is crucial to career success. This doesn’t mean ‘faking it’, rather it means carefully deciding which elements [...]
There’s no avoiding it: relationships matter at work. That means we can’t deny that other people’s perceptions of us matter too. As much as we might not like that idea, it’s true. The way you create a perception of yourself is through your personal impact. Managing this is essential in building positive work relationships. Let’s look at what personal impact is [...]
It can feel a bit overwhelming to think about what your personal brand is and how to start thinking about it. If you want to read more about what it is and why it matters, you can do so here. In this short article, I want to share how I approach defining someone’s personal brand with them. It is important [...]
The term personal brand has been knocking around for several decades. I have to admit it’s not personally one I like but I think the idea behind it is still extremely important and frequently individuals don’t make enough time to consider theirs. This is particularly the case in the financial and professional services industries where knowledge and technical expertise are [...]
In talking to a prospective corporate client last week and explaining how important LinkedIn is for individuals and the organisations they work for, that person candidly explained his way of updating his profile. “In my summary, it says how many years’ experience I have, annually I add another year.” I am not surprised by this, many people working in corporates [...]
A great workplace presentation can help you to stand out as an employee to watch and in an external setting represents the company well and impacts its reputation. Although many people dread giving presentations – or public speaking of any kind – with the right focus and preparation a presentation can be both enjoyable and successful. To be successful, it [...]
There are many factors that may affect employee performance, from the environmental to the motivational. One of the most easily overlooked – but often most significant – is how the way that we dress has an impact on how we feel, and consequently how we perform. Most of us have had that one experience where we have been in the wrong [...]
When I first started my business in 2011, it was almost entirely focused on working with individuals and groups on personal impact. What I do today is a lot broader than that; however personal impact is foundational to most of the work I do because personal impact whatever the situation matters at work. You may question why that is, the [...]
I am currently working with a client who is only working with me, due to feedback from his boss; in fact it has been made clear he needs to work on his presence to progress in his company. This is always a more challenging proposition for me, as the person has not come to their own conclusion that they have elements [...]