Communicating Your Strengths & Successes

This post’s title is also the title of a webinar I recently conducted.  In it, we discussed benefits and tips around sharing your strengths, as well as some of the mental blocks we have to get past in order to self-promote effectively, including:

• A job well done speaks for itself – It should, but in today’s fast paced world - the world of overflowing inboxes - your job well done might be overlooked.

• Others will brag for me, especially if I speak highly of them – They might, but if you aren’t excited enough about your accomplishments to share them, how can you expect others to be?

• Humility is a virtue – It is, so you may have to think differently about self-promotion. Perhaps the definition from Peggy Klaus below will help.

• “Good girls” don’t brag – Women are taught to share with others and not draw too much attention to themselves. Women are traditionally less effective at self-promotion. Ladies, get over it!

• “I know I can do better” – Also true, but don’t let the quest for perfection stop you from recognizing what you’ve been able to accomplish.

What are your strengths and accomplishments? And what are you doing to shine a light on them?

Good luck,

~ Sophie

NOTE: I’m cheating by not counting the following in my 200-word limit. Apologies…

“BRAG: To talk about your best self (interests, ideas, accomplishments) with pride and passion in a conversational manner intended to excite admiration, interest and wonder without pretense or overstatement – in other words without being obnoxious.” ~ Peggy Klaus, author of “BRAG: How to Toot Your Own Horn Without Blowing It”

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? … Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory that is within us. And as we let our light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~ Marianne Williamson, poet