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Growing up I was told that storytellers were liars, so I never wanted to be a person who told stories. When I got older I realized that most people were living a lie. The average person was living someone else’s existence spending 70% of their waking life doing something that they hated. So I didn’t realize I had a story.
As a personal brand I now realize that being a good story teller is more a product of a person who is passionate about what they do versus just assembling a bunch of words.
Story telling allows you to influence beyond words. It enables you to present in color versus black and white and package in all forms of media.
How to tell your Story
New School
- Visual Resume – Hajj E. Flemings - Visual Resume (Resume 2.0)
- Blog Post- My Brand Story
- Video –What is your Message to the World?
- Creative Slide Presentation –Personal Branding 2.0 Slide Presentation
- Business Cards –Web 2.0 Cards (www.BrandCardz.com)
- Tweet – A one to many conversation.
Old School
- Standard Resume – 8.5 x 11 white paper (still required by non-engaging)
- Bio- Basic information about you.
- Video – Video content that is all about you.
- Power point – Boring slides with too many words.
- Business Cards – Web 1.0 business piece that doesn’t engage people.
How Other tell your Story:
RT: Re-Tweet
Fav: Favorites
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As a personal brand you are always telling your story or creating content that people can spread.
Sound advice to rely on story telling for personal branding. And I love the way you compare old to new school
Story telling also allows a deeper window into who you are and your potential value to an employer or customer. Telling “career success stories” about yourself engages people and helps them understand how you make things happen. People hire people they think they know.
-Meg
Meg GuiseppiMay 7th, 2009 at 4:41 am
Meg,
I appreciate the comment. Story telling is very important and its great to hear confirmation from other experts in the field.
Hajj FlemingsMay 8th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
While it is very true that story telling is very important to personal brand management, I have recently been having doubts about the current way we go about personal brand management in regards to the new school train of thought. It seems that the stories we are telling are simply one sided.
Unfortunately, it is true that no one can really know us and that the stories that we do share with the universe are the ones that represent our best qualities. Yet, I wonder if we made the decision to display all the facets of ourselves to the people we chose, could we play ‘the game’ on our own terms? The way in which ‘the game’ has been played has changed drastically. Yet, it seems as if we are allowing ourselves to become more vulnerable.
My conflict seems to negate itself; as a story teller I understand that there are many sides to a story and yet this way of telling a story only shows one. And yet, I do not disagree with the new form of storytelling, in fact I believe it is very progressive. However, I sometimes do feel that people jump head first into new territory without considering the implications that this new school of story telling may have.
Lisa GraysonMay 12th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I love this post Hajj.
Very insightful.
Thanks.
Antwon DavisMay 18th, 2009 at 1:24 am