Trust, training, technology: three keys to corporate personal branding
Personal branding is no longer exclusive to celebrities entrepreneurs. Today I deal with the three keys to corporate personal branding, a way to move personal brand management to companies, and specifically to their professionals. .
I heard an interview to Brian Fanzo, ISocialFanz' CEO in which I liked the way he simplified the application of corporate personal branding.
If you have little time, here I leave you a one-minute video-summary:
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Corporate Personal Branding: What is it?
Many believe it is a Oxymoron... and I get it, what are we talking about? personal or corporate?
Corporate branding staff deals with the application of staff branding in top executives, known as Executive Branding, training in personal branding for middle managers and other professionals, and the programs employee advocacy programs or impulse to “emfluencers” y employer branding.
It is based on the proven fact that people transmit greater confidence than imagined realities such as brands or companies.
First key: Trust
As it could not be otherwise, in times of distrust in brands, companies must trust their people (I remember the recent post: Entrepreneur: your people are your brand) to perform the corporate storytelling.
To this end it is essential that the organization has corporate story, with a very clear and social purpose (beyond benefits, Leadership...), a mission, values and a story.
People trust people, so there's no one better to move these corporate assets than through professionals.
Entrepreneurs afraid to give greater power and knowledge to their people, we can only tell them that investing in them is a way to build loyalty.
Second key: Training
Among the three keys to corporate branding, training is, for me, one of the most solid foundations.
As my colleague says David Barreda, trainer and personal branding expert, training is a learning strategy for knowledge acquisition and development, skills and attitudes, that allows people to respond effectively to certain problems and dilemmas.
And in this case, training aims to provide methodologies and tools for employees to (I prefer to call them professionals) connect with stakeholders or stakeholders stakeholders, internal and external.
This has a dual objective: on the one hand to value each professional's own personal brand, turn them into trademark spokespersons. On the other, to transfer the corporate storytelling to the markets in a person-to-person communication.
Third key: Technology
Today it is essential that professionals can leverage technology to be able to act as spokespersons and ambassadors. Since this isn't your main “job description”, it is necessary for the organization to provide applications to manage this new role, easy to use, intuitive, and most importantly, productive and efficient.
These applications are about knowing content, Cure, share them and follow their trail. We can't expect employees to constantly enter the company's website to see what's new. To this end, notifications to an application are required from the communication department, so that information easily reaches every professional.
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Books: SOS! I have a toxic boss.
This past Thursday I had the opportunity to attend the presentation of the twelfth book of my colleague Pablo Adán says, organized in Lleida by my other colleague Xavi Roca with the assistance of 60 of alumni ESADE.
Paul wanted a book like that, And I get it. Everyone we've lived with bosses (or partners) toxics we have always wanted to explain... And we've lacked courage. Paul has studied it thoroughly, has been documented as it always does, and has even launched a little online research to gather more data on this abounding specimen (a 50% of all the bosses are toxic) and that erodes business leadership.
Paul and Xavi invited me to be part of a round table after the presentation of the book which was very useful for the attendees to lose the fear has asked committed questions. An interesting one was, do you think it's a good idea for me to give this book to my boss?
I'm not going to spoiler the play., but I recommend it to all the bosses and to all those who are suffering the consequences of a bad leadership style.
- SOS, tengo un jefe tóxico
- Pablo Adán Micó, 2019
- Publisher: SC Libro
- Prologue: J.P.. Borregón Baños (AEDIPE)
- From influencers to influentials (a substantial change) - 6 December, 2019
- When facts are imposed on such (good personal brand) - 29 November, 2019
- The impulse of social conscience and personal brand - 23 November, 2019
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Good afternoon, Guillem
Three big and fundamental details you name in this, your post: trust, training and technology. Trust that must be two-way from who hires us and when we accept we must also trust them. Training, it is that we have to form on our own to be more competitive and taking advantage of the internet and not spend excessive money, but also the one who hires us must train us and sometimes it doesn't happen! Technology, as a means to be better and build by contributing and making constructive criticism ( while many people use social media for example to observe and not contribute, and i accuse criticizing behind a profile without giving face )
This is my contribution that could be worthy of a good conversation and a coffee, no?
A hug,
Mirka
Hello Mirka! I'll buy you the coffee on my next visit to Galicia. You're right about the training.. Although the professional career manager is self-, companies need their professionals to be in permanent beta, and training is a path. Technology always offers us both sides, the good and the bad. I prefer observers to trolls, but those who are used to going best are those who contribute. Thank you so much for your comment!
Fact ! for that coffee, Guillem. Of course, if we have to be in continuous training, on “permanent beta”. Of course, Guillem that if you put on a scale the troll and the observer, I prefer the observer I also call gossip … when he just looks and doesn't comment anything and he's not even a follower of yours.
We continue,
Mirka