Develop Your Personal Brand

Personal branding is an ongoing process that should exist throughout your entire career.

·         Increase Your Visibility.

·         Stay Connected. Foster those relationships, especially the important ones.

·         Create an Online Presence. Maintain a professional manner when interacting online.

·         Establish Key Differentiators. Identify what makes you distinctive from others.

·         Be Consistent. Ensure that you have a consistent message.

·         Seek Feedback and Evaluate Progress. By understanding how others view your personal brand, you can learn what steps you need to take to position yourself for success.

Market Yourself
Developing your personal brand is one of the first steps towards effectively marketing yourself.

Many of us look at life as work...

We approach it and try to handle it like a job. We complain about it. We blame others when it is not working. We hold someone else responsible when it does not give us what we want. Some of us give up on life. We move from day to day, with no plan, no goals and ultimately no rewards. We fail to understand that if life is work, the better we do it, the better it will pay us.

A Few Ways to deal with difficult coworker

ü  Start out by examining yourself. Make sure the object of your attention is a difficult person’s actions.

ü  Explore what you are experiencing with a trusted friend or colleague.

ü  Ask the person for a private discussion. Be pleasant and agreeable as you talk with the other person.

ü  Follow up after the initial discussion. Become a peacemaker.

ü  You can confront your difficult coworker’s behavior publicly. If you are funny, you can use the humor well with difficult coworkers.

Habits of Effective people

Principles Embodied in the 7- Habits
Habit	Principle
Habit 1 – Be Proactive	Responsibility/Initiative
Habit 2 – Begin with the end in mind	Vision/Values
Habit 3 – Put First things First	Integrity/Execution
Habit 4 – Think Win-Win	Mutual Respect/Benefit
Habit 5 – Seek to Understand then to be   Understood	Mutual Understanding
Habit 6 - Synergize	Creative Cooperation
Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw	Renewal