Yearly archives: 2012

Measuring Success
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the sixth and final part in the series of The Brand New, Brand You, I will be covering the last step in the START process in Brand New, Brand You, Test. So you’ve got to grips with Brand New, Brand You. You’ve developed your Brand – Your values and [...]

The Brand New, Brand You! ~ Part 6

 in Employability / Management / People  tagged 360 Feedback / Bit.ly / Brand / Brand You / Feedback / Google / Klout / Myers Briggs / Social Mention / Technorati / TweetDeck by
Reinforce - Brand New Brand You 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes In the fifth part in the series of The Brand New, Brand You, I will be covering the fourth step in the START process in Brand New, Brand You, Reinforce. Now that you have started to establish the Brand New Brand You, it is important that you continually reinforce your [...]

The Brand New, Brand You! ~ Part 5

 in Business Skills / Employability / People  tagged Brand / Brand You / Business / Business Networking / Communication / Employability / Personal Brand / Relationship / Stakeholder management by
Online Brand 3
Reading Time: 14 minutes In the fourth part in the series of The Brand New, Brand You, I will be covering the third step in the START process – Articulate. Brand You is who you already are, whether you are consciously aware of it or not. Brand New, Brand You is about building a [...]

The Brand New, Brand You! ~ Part 4

 in Business Skills / Employability / People  tagged Brand / Elevator Pitch / Employability / Interview / LinkedIn / Online Brand / Personal Brand / Telephone Interview / Twitter / Wordpress by
Brand New, Brand You - Self-discovery 7
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the second part of the series of The Brand New, Brand You, I will be covering the first step in the START process in Brand New, Brand You, namely Self-discovery. START – Self-discovery A personal brand is much more than a job title or how you look. This first [...]

The Brand New, Brand You! ~ Part 2

 in Business Skills / Employability / People  tagged Brand You / Goals / Passion / Personal Brand / Personal Values / Stephen Covey / Success / Values / Vision by
Brand You START 8
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve had some feedback recently that people would like some support in finding new roles, building their personal profile and generally improving their employability. Brand New, Brand You is a series of Think Oak! posts to help you improve your personal brand in the increasingly crowded and competitive job market. Brands [...]

The Brand New, Brand You ~ Part 1

 in Business Skills / Employability  tagged Amazon / Apple / BlackBerry / BMW / Brand / Brand You / Business / Clinton / Ebay / Honda / London / New York / Obama / Personal Development / social-media by
Milestones 2
Reading Time: 7 minutes There are many theories on implemnting change effectively. Many originate with leadership and change management guru, John Kotter. A professor at Harvard Business School and world-renowned change expert, Kotter introduced his eight-step change process in his 1995 book, “Leading Change” with a follow-up work “Our Iceberg is Melting” in 2006. Step [...]

Implementing Change Effectively

 in Leadership / People / Teams  tagged Change Management / Coalition / Communication / Culture / Harvard Business School / Kotter / Urgency / Vision by
Dodo
Reading Time: 4 minutes With today’s rapidly evolving technology and business markets in their most challenging time for decades, companies rise and fall faster than ever before. Leaders must constantly anticipate the market and their customer needs and that sometimes means you need to make changes – be that processes, products, organisational structure, or even the [...]

Dead as a Dodo…..Why Teams Don’t / Won’t Change

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