August 2023 - The Smiling Strategist - Brand and Business Strategy and Consulting

How to tell your story in your personal brand?

Enjoyed giving my perspective on the Linked-in collaborative article How can you show your leadership values and vision in your personal brand story? on #storytelling. Here are my two cents on how your story can translate into your personal brand.

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A tip for Freelance Strategy

Strategy needs patience. Are you feeling disappointed lately that your strategies are not showing results? Well, you got to wait for the right time. No work is waste.

Take a look at the Plateau of Latent Potential from Atomic Habits. Wise words by James Clear below. 😊👇

“We often expect progress to be linear. At the every least we hope it will come quickly. In reality, the results of our efforts are often delayed. It is not until months or years later that we realize the true value of the previous work we have done. This can result in a “valley of disappointment” where people feel discouraged after putting in weeks or months of hard work without experiencing any results. However, this work was not wasted. It was simply being stored. It is not until much later that the full value of previous efforts is revealed.”

Remember? Slow and steady wins the race… 🐢

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Understanding Consumer Needs

How to decipher consumer needs? Try the model below👇

Source: Patrick Newbery, Kevin Farnham

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The Smiling Strategist

ROMA SINGHAL

Roma is Founder & Strategy Partner at Brandself. She has spent over 20 years as Brand, Design and Digital Strategist carving disruptive and impactful strategies for blue-chips brands at marketing and advertising organisations such as American Express, Ogilvy, Publicis Groupe, McCann, BBDO and more in Sydney, Singapore and Mumbai covering Global, AUNZ, ASEAN and India markets. Recently, she was chosen as one of the four female leaders to have broken down societal barriers by the hipages Group in Australia for their Empower Women in Leadership Program. Her works have been awarded, one of them being The EFFIE Gold. She sits in the APG UK Head of Planning Forum and was also chosen as the first round judge for EFFIE Australia. She is a Strategy Teacher at the esteemed Miami Ad School and a Strategy Mavin on Mavardo. She is also a Mentor at UNSW and the industry recognised Assisterhood. Last few years, she has been experimenting with her entrepreneurial spirit, having launched Brandself (www.brandself.net), a disruptive strategy studio; 2. SELFCONCEPT, a self-awareness platform gathering true human insights, where training from Mind Master Tony Buzan on Mind Mapping techniques helped her think divergently; 3. THE SMILING STAYS, a cozy Air BNB in Paddington, Sydney. In her free time she drives her humanitarian initiatives, tries her mind at poetry, plays the guitarlele and experiments with acrylic painting on square shaped canvasses. A lover of philosophy, she is working everyday to become a better human being. To start a conversation please e-mail her at romasinghal@brandself.net. Also join her page on Linked-in @ https://www.linkedin.com/company/romasinghal-thesmilingstrategist/ for strategy tips.