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		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, successful companies are beginning to recognize that good brand relationships with their employees are more important than good brand relationships with their customers. They understand that employees should be happy first in order to make the customers happy and that corporate brand loyalty starts with employee’s engagement. This can be realized by aligning the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=689&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Increasingly, successful companies are beginning to recognize that good brand relationships with their employees are more important than good brand relationships with their customers. They understand that employees should be happy first in order to make the customers happy and that corporate brand loyalty starts with employee’s engagement. This can be realized by aligning the employee’s brand with the corporate brand. This article proposes a successful method to realize this.</p>
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<p>Alignment is needed because staff members don’t work with devotion or expend energy on something they do not believe in or agree with. If there is an effective match between their interests and those of the company, or if their values and the company’s values align, they will be engaged and will work with greater commitment and dedication towards realizing the company objectives. Identification with the corporate brand is the most important motive for them to dedicate themselves actively to the corporate objectives and to maximize their potential. When your personal brand is compatible with your corporate’s brand and combined in the best interest of both parties, the results will be higher brand equity, brand loyalty, and happy stakeholders. Doing work related to your personal and corporate brand that is interesting, exciting and provides learning opportunities has become a key personal driver. The emphasis here lies in intrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is inherently pleasurable and it arises from within; most people do something because they enjoy doing it and love it. People work harder and better when they perceive that they are treated as human beings and when they do interesting and challenging work.</p>
<p>Aligning personal brand with the corporate brand has an impact on the organizational bonding of the employees. This energizes them and gives them the proud feeling that they count, that they are appreciated as human beings and that they make a useful and valuable contribution to the organization. Employees are stimulated in this way to commit and focus on those activities that create value for clients. This will create a strong foundation of peace and stability upon which creativity and growth can flourish, and life within the company will become a more harmonious experience. This has an important impact on employee engagement. Lack of engagement is endemic, and is causing large and small organizations all over the world to incur excess costs, under perform on critical tasks, and create widespread customer dissatisfaction.</p>
<p>The impact of engaged, happy and passionate employees on the company performance can be illustrated with the following important research data. There are 22 million actively disengaged employees in America, according to Gallup (Gallup Poll, 2005). Their dissatisfaction is manifested in employee absence, illness, and a variety of other big and small problems that occur when people are unhappy at work. Gallup statistics show that unhappy workers cost the American business economy up to $350 billion annually in lost labor productivity, and that earnings per share increase 2.6 times more if employees are engaged. Active engagement of employees in their jobs and work is mandatory if U.S. businesses are to enjoy high productivity in our global economy. However, research indicates that 70% of U.S. employees are not engaged at work (Hymowitz, 2007).<strong> </strong>Companies with such a large number of dissatisfied employees &#8220;have more absenteeism and lower labour productivity &#8212; as well as 51% higher turnover rates than those with engaged employees”, says James Harter, chief scientist for Gallup&#8217;s international management practice.  Employee disengagement is a global epidemic. According to the latest Gallup poll information:</p>
<ul>
<li>61% of the British workforce, 67% of the Japanese workforce, and a whopping 82% of the workforce in Singapore is not engaged.</li>
<li>Disengaged Employees Cost Singapore $4.9 Billion; the country&#8217;s workforce ranks among the lowest in the world in employee engagement.</li>
<li>20% of Australian workers are actively disengaged at work and this costs the economy an estimated $31.5 billion per year; the survey of 1,500 Australian workers, found that only 18 % are engaged at work and thus providing their employers with high levels of productivity, profitability and customer service.</li>
<li>The percentage of engaged employees in organizations is less than 20% in Europe.</li>
<li>The highest recorded levels of engaged employees are in Brazil (31 %) and Mexico (40 %). The lowest recorded levels are in Asia.</li>
</ul>
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<p>The average U.S. worker wastes more than two hours a day, and that&#8217;s not including lunch, according to a new Web survey by America On-line and Salary.com. That means companies spend as much as $759-billion on salaries annually for which they receive no apparent benefit, the research found. Our own research indicates that no organization is free of the issue.  But what is being done about it? In the next section I will therefore introduce an advanced breakthrough model to build, implement, cultivate, and align an authentic, distinctive, relevant, and memorable personal and corporate brand, which forms the key to a highly engaged and happy workforce.</p>
<p><strong>An Authentic Personal &amp; Corporate Branding Model</strong></p>
<p>I am including below a holistic blueprint and roadmap to help you formulating and implementing an authentic personal and corporate brand identity that is in line with yourself and with your company. This organic model consists of the following four phases (see Figure 1), which are the building blocks of a strong personal and corporate brand (Rampersad, 2009):</p>
<ol>
<li>Authentic personal branding: This phase involves      defining, formulating, implementing and cultivating your authentic      personal ambition, brand, and balanced scorecard.</li>
<li>Alignment with      yourself; Your personal brand should reflect your true self and must      adhere to a moral and behavioral code set down by your personal ambition.      This means that who you really are, what you care about, and  your passion should come out in your      brand, and you should act and behave accordingly to build trust.</li>
<li>Authentic corporate branding: This phase involves      defining, formulating, implementing and cultivating the corporate      ambition, brand, and balanced scorecard.</li>
<li>Alignment with your corporation; The final step      entails aligning and synchronizing the employee’s brand with the corporate      brand, for the purposes of employee engagement and creating a challenged      and happy workforce.</li>
</ol>
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<p>Figure 1: Authentic Personal and Corporate Branding Model (Rampersad, 2009)</p>
<p>In the following sections, each of the phases in the model will be discussed in depth.</p>
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<p><strong>Authentic Personal Branding</strong></p>
<p>Building an authentic personal brand is a journey and an evolutionary process. It starts with determining who you are at your core authentic self, which is based on your dream, vision, mission, life philosophy, values, key roles, identity, self-knowledge, and self-awareness. Your personal brand should emerge from your search for your identity and meaning in life, and it is about getting very clear on what you want, fixing it in your mind, giving it all your positive energy, doing what you love and develop yourself continuously.</p>
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<p>This step in the model consists of the following four phases:<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>A. Define and formulate your personal ambition</strong>; This phase involves defining and formulating      your personal ambition in an exciting and persuasive manner and making it      visible. Your personal ambition is the soul,      starting point, core intention and the guiding principles of your personal brand.      It’s the fuel for your brand and encompasses your personal vision,      mission, and key roles, related to four perspectives, that should be in balance: internal,      external, knowledge &amp; learning, and financial perspectives. Mission is aimed at <em>being </em>and vision at <em>becoming</em>. It is about identifying yourself and figuring out what your dreams      are, <strong>who you are</strong>,      what you stand for, what makes you unique and special, why you are      different than anyone, what your values are, and identifying your genius. You are      almost twice as likely to accomplish your brand if you write this down.      Formulation is critical to building a strong brand. So take the time to      think about your life and to write down your personal ambition statement,      which includes your dream. <strong>Barack      Obama’s</strong><strong> </strong>dream is: <em>Bring      about real change, change that we can believe in</em>. He identified and      leveraged his<strong> </strong>dream, responded to it with love and passion and      succeeded by living according to it. My personal mission statement is<strong>: </strong><em>Enjoy the freedom to develop and share      knowledge, especially if this can mean something in the life of others</em>. <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>B. Define and formulate your personal brand;</strong> This phase involves defining and formulating an authentic, distinctive, relevant, and memorable personal brand promise, and use it as the focal point of your      behavior and actions. First of all, perform a personal SWOT analysis and      define what you want your personal      brand to accomplish. You also need to      determine your specialization, concentrating on a single core talent, your      main specific services, your key characteristics, your single leading and      most powerful attribute, your audience and what their greatest needs are.<strong> </strong>Your personal brand statement also includes your Unique Value      Proposition. The next step in this stage is to define your personal brand story      (Elevator Pitch), which is the essence of what you want to say about your personal      brand in order to      produce a positive emotional reaction. Finally you should design your personal logo, which      is a single graphical symbol that represents your personal brand. My personal brand      statement is:<strong> </strong><em>Passionate and      compassionate to inspire learning      individuals to </em><em>u<strong>nlock</strong> their      potential and dedicated to energize </em><em>innovative organizations </em><em>within the service and      manufacturing industry</em><em>. </em><em>Using my holistic insight and innovative Total Performance Scorecard      principles, I promise to help my customers to realize their dreams. </em>It summarizes me. I have formulated this for myself to be used as      guidance for my Personal Brand story and to keep me moving in the right      direction.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>C. Formulate your Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC)</strong>; Your personal personal brand has no value unless you take action to make them a reality. Therefore the emphasis in this stage is developing an integrated and well balanced action plan based on your personal ambition and personal brand to reach your life and brand objectives and to eliminate any negative elements. It’s about translating your personal brand into action. Your PBSC entails your personal critical success factors that are related to your Personal Ambition and Brand and the corresponding objectives, performance measures, targets and improvement actions. It is divided into the four perspectives: internal, external, knowledge &amp; learning, and financial perspectives. Your PBSC translates your personal ambition and personal brand into manageable and measurable personal objectives, milestones and improvement actions in a holistic and balanced way (Rampersad, 2006). Your PBSC is needed to improve and manage yourself continuously. It’s an effective tool that you can use to manage and master yourself and your brand.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>D. </strong><strong>Implement and cultivate your personal brand</strong>; Your personal brand has no value unless you  implement  it to make it a reality. Therefore the next step is to implement, maintain, and cultivate your ambition, brand and PBSC effectively. You have to articulate your personal brand with love and passion, be committed to change, and improve your perceived value in the marketplace and yourself continuously. In addition, try to build credibility and become an expert in your field. Get the word out through a variety of media channels, do work you love which is consistent with your personal brand and values, gain experience in areas of your brand in which you are weak, promote yourself, market your brand frequently and consistently, make conscious choices about the people you associate with, build a strong network, deliver on your brand promise, and in short live according to your brand promise.  To guide you in this process I have introduced a unique learning cycle called the Plan-Deploy-Act-Challenge cycle, which should be followed continuously. This is necessary to let your brand awareness grow gradually. You need to refine your Personal Brand promise as you go along, figuring out which parts work and which don&#8217;t, and make adjustments as necessary. You should continually refine your brand promise in the light of new insights, challenges, and experiences. There will always be competing brands ready to fill any gap you leave behind. The more you strengthen, maintain, protecting, and cultivate your brand, the more successful you’ll be. It needs constant updating to reflect the new challenges you take, the lessons you have learned, and the growth of yourself and your brand.</p>
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<p><strong>Alignment wi</strong><strong>th yourself</strong></p>
<p>Having a great personal brand identity can make you a big looser if your personal brand doesn’t reflect your true character and if you don&#8217;t deliver on your related promise. Not delivering on your promise is a secure way to ruin your reputation and career. So commit yourself to live and act according to your authentic brand promise and be careful to ensure that you can deliver. If you don’t do this, personal branding will be cosmetic, selfish, egocentric, and a dirty greedy business. People relate to you as your word, and how you fulfill on that. If you say you will do something, you should do that with no excuses. Each time you make or break a promise you are affecting your personal brand image. You should also keep promises that you make to yourself. If you break a promise to yourself you will not have inner peace and will not develop personal charisma and transparency, which will affect your personal brand. You have to live your values consistently on a day-to-day basis and show transparency and accountability. A personal brand built on lies will crash (truth always comes out), and a brand built on the person’s true character is sustainable and strong. To borrow Dwight Eisenhower’s words: a <em>person that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.</em></p>
<p>By aligning your personal brand with yourself you will create a stable basis for your trustworthiness, credibility, and personal charisma. Who you really are, what you care about, and were your passions lie should come out in your brand, and you should act and behave accordingly (you should be yourself) to build trust. Trust will be built faster when others believe you are real and when they witness you being true to your beliefs and aligned with who you really are. You will build trust when your values connect to your attitudes and actions and when you will be true to yourself. The result of this brand building process is a personal brand identity that is not a not fake, not cosmetic, not an ego trip, not selfish, not focused on just promoting yourself, and not a dirty business. This inner alignment is an important step towards lasting personal growth and reinforcing integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, credibility, transparency, and personal charisma. People with this perspective on life value others’ lives and create a stable basis for others to feel they are credible, truthful, and trustworthy. They:</p>
<ul>
<li>Practice what they preach.</li>
<li>Keep their word; their actions match their words and their personal brand.</li>
<li>Keep their brand promises; there is consistency between their personal brand and their behavior.</li>
<li>Do what they said they would do, despite the obstacles.</li>
</ul>
<p>You should reflect during this alignment process on the following questions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do I act in accordance with my conscience and my values? Is there consistency between what I am thinking and what I am doing?</li>
<li>How do my ideals, ambitions, intentions, needs, deepest desires, and personal brand fit my present actions?</li>
<li>Are my thoughts and my practices the same? Do I act consistently in accordance with my personal brand? Do my personal brand reflect my desire to act ethically? Are there contradictions in my personal ambition and personal brand?</li>
<li>In what way does my behavior influence my views, and vice versa? Do I keep promises that I make to myself? How do others perceive me and my values? Do they witness me being true to my core beliefs and me staying in alignment with who I really am?</li>
</ul>
<p>The best way to look at success is to ask:</p>
<ul>
<li>Have I followed my conscience consistently?</li>
<li>Have I followed my personal brand consistently?</li>
<li>Have I given it my best effort consistently?</li>
<li>Have I done what was right consistently?</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>Authentic Corporate Branding</strong></p>
<p>This section emphasizes on corporate branding that has a similar base as the authentic personal branding process. This process consists of the following four phases:<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>A. </strong><strong>Define and formulate the corporate ambition</strong>; This phase involves defining and formulating the shared corporate ambition. The corporate ambition is the soul of and the fuel for the corporate brand. It encompasses the corporate vision, mission, and core values, related to the four perspectives, which should be in balance. As with the personal ambition, the following 4 basic perspectives have been chosen, however, the contents have different meanings: internal, external, knowledge &amp; learning, and financial perspectives.  A successfully formulated corporate ambition shows employees how their activities contribute to the larger whole. In an organization without a corporate ambition, employees are exposed to ad hoc decisions and short-term plans. The corporate ambition functions as a lighthouse keeping the company steadily on the course of its dream.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>B. Define and      formulate the corporate brand;</strong> This phase involves defining and formulating an authentic, distinctive, enduring, and memorable corporate brand      promise, which is in harmony with the corporate ambition, and used as the      focal point of company’s culture and actions. As with the personal brand,      first of all you should perform a company SWOT analysis and evaluate the      performance and culture of the company. This relates to the corporate brand      objectives. The company should      also determine its specialization, what its main specific services are,      what its most powerful attribute is, and what its audience (domain) and      their greatest needs are. The corporate brand statement entails the total      of corporate ambition, brand objectives, specialty, service, dominant      attribute, and domain. It also includes a Unique Value Proposition (UVP).<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>C. Formulate the Corporate Balanced Scorecard (CBSC)</strong>; as with the PBSC, the emphasis in this stage is developing an integrated and well balanced action plan based on your corporate ambition and brand to reach the corporate objectives. The CBSC entails the related company critical success factors, objectives, performance measures, targets and improvement actions. It’s divided into four perspectives: internal, external, knowledge &amp; learning, and financial perspectives. The CBSC is needed to improve the business processes continuously based on the corporate ambition and brand in order to satisfy its customers and to make them happy.<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>D. Implement and cultivate the corporate brand</strong>; You need to implement your corporate brand to make it a reality. Therefore the next step is to implement, maintain, and cultivate the corporate brand identity  effectively in order to deliver peak performance and to create competitive advantage. To guide you in this process I have introduced the Plan-Deploy-Act-Cultivate cycle (PDAC cycle), which should be followed continuously. This is necessary to let the corporate brand awareness grow gradually. Once you implement and launch the corporate brand, it should be maintained continuously. The more you strengthen, maintain, and cultivate the corporate brand, the more successful the company will be. To operate in accordance with the corporate ambition, brand and related CBSC, through its implementation using the PDAC cycle, results in a journey towards business success.</p>
<p><strong>Alignment with your corporation</strong></p>
<p>By aligning and synchronizing employee’s ambition and brand with their corporate ambition and brand you can realize the ‘<em>best fit’</em> between employee and company. Matching the personal brand with the corporate brand has to do with reaching a higher degree of compatibility between personal and corporate objectives and mutual value addition (as shown in Figure 3). A study, by CO2 Partners (2007), found that 30% of US workers values mismatch with the company:</p>
<ul>
<li>One in three U.S. workers said their employer&#8217;s core values are not consistent with their own.</li>
<li>44 per cent said their values were consistent.</li>
<li>11 per cent said they were uncertain about their own core values but never uncomfortable working for their employer.</li>
<li>10 per cent said they didn&#8217;t feel their core values had much connection to the work they do.</li>
</ul>
<p>Another study, by Towers Perrin (2005), found that instead of matching the right employee to the right position for long-term success, most US companies and H/R departments put the emphasis on simply filling the position as quickly as possible. As a result, American businesses are losing money as fast as they are losing employees.</p>
<p>It has become essential to get the optimal fit between the personal brand and the corporate brand in order to enhance labor productivity and to stimulate engagement, commitment, love, and passion in the company. This has to do with reaching a higher degree of compatibility between personal and organizational objectives and mutual value addition. People do not work with devotion or expend energy on something they do not believe in or agree with. Clarity and uniformity of personal and organizational values and principles are therefore essential for the active involvement of employees. A study by Towers Perrin (2005), found that while many people are keen to contribute more at work, the behavior of their managers and culture of their organizations is actively discouraging them from doing so. It shows that there is a vast reserve of untapped &#8220;employee performance potential&#8221; that could drive better financial results if only companies could tap into this reserve.</p>
<p>It is therefore recommended to encourage managers and employees to formulate their personal ambition/brand and to let them reflect about the balance between their own personal ambition/brand and the corporate ambition/brand. I, therefore, recommend introducing an <em>ambition meeting </em>within companies between the line-manager or superior and his/her employees. The ambition meeting is a periodical, informal, voluntary and confidential meeting of a maximum duration of one hour between line-manager and his/her employees, with the employee’s personal ambition/brand/PBSC and the corporate ambition/brand/CBSC as topics.<em> </em>It is recommended that the meeting is held structurally at least once every two months, preferably more often. The outcome of these informal meetings should be highly confidential and should be kept out of the personnel file and not be used against the employee. The line-manager or supervisor plays a crucial role in worker well-being and engagement. During the alignment process, the manager should act as a trusted and informal coach and provide social support to the employees by being a good listener, providing help, and being someone the employee can rely on.</p>
<p>The ambition meeting will help you clarify if your personal ambition/brand and those of your company are in harmony and where they are in conflict. The line-manager can make a selection of the following ambition questions, which he/she can use during in the ambition meeting with you—</p>
<ul>
<li>Does your personal ambition/brand correspond with the corporate ambition/brand? Do they conflict? Are there compatibilities? Are there linkages?</li>
<li>Can you identify yourself with the corporate ambition/brand? In doing this, do you feel personally involved and addressed by the corporate ambition/brand?</li>
<li>Is it possible that your personal ambition/brand level or that of the company should be lowered?</li>
<li>Are your most important personal values done justice here? Which points in your personal ambition/brand are strengthened and which are in conflict with the corporate ambition/brand? Which ones are neglected?</li>
<li>Is there a win-win situation between your own interests and the ones of your company? What makes you feel good at work? Are you proud of working for the company? Whose life is improved because of your work? Which skills do you need to be a pillar of the organization and thus realize the corporate ambition/brand? What do you want to gain through this?</li>
<li>Are your developmental expectations in tune with those of the company? Do your job requirements match your capabilities and needs?</li>
<li>Have you considered a job change?</li>
</ul>
<p>Don’t expect a perfect match or alignment, but the more alignment the better. You should decide, based on the results of this alignment process, to stay and struggle or to leave. If your ambition/brand doesn’t align at all with the corporate brand/ambition, and if it probably never will finding an other job where there is a better fit is the best option. Some of my customers decided to look for another job after they discovered that their ambition/brand did not well align with their employer’s ambition/brand. It prevented stress and burnout. Sometimes this can be the best option for both yourself and the company.</p>
<p>This article is based on Dr. Hubert Rampersad&#8217;s new book <em>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6">Authentic Personal Branding:  A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217;</a></em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6"><em> </em></a>(Information Age Publishing, USA, 2009; Pearson Malaysia, 2008).</p>
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		<title>Authentic Personal Branding: An Interview with Hubert Rampersad in BusinessWeek by Marshall Goldsmith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authentic personal branding starts with the real you.  Hubert Rampersad explains how to create a professional brand from your personal values.  &#8230;.. read further  &#8230;.http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Authentic personal branding starts with the real you.  Hubert Rampersad explains how to create a professional brand from your personal values.  &#8230;.. read further  &#8230;.<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm</a></p>
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		<title>Hubert Rampersad&#8217;s Resume</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubert K. Rampersad, B.S., M.Sc., Ph.D. is the world&#8217;s leading authority on Authentic Personal Branding, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and President at Personal Branding University and TPS International Inc. in Miami Beach,  USA. He  received his formal education in The Netherlands earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a M.Sc. in Robotics (Delft University [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=660&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-666" title="neiuwe foto" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/neiuwe-foto.jpg?w=233&#038;h=234" alt="neiuwe foto" width="233" height="234" />Hubert K. Rampersad, B.S., M.Sc., Ph.D. is the world&#8217;s leading authority on Authentic Personal Branding, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and President at <a href="http://www.personalbranding-university.com">Personal Branding University</a> and <a href="http://www.Total-Performance-Scorecard.com">TPS International Inc.</a> in Miami Beach,  USA. He  received his formal education in The Netherlands earning a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a M.Sc. in Robotics (Delft University of Technology), and a Ph.D. in Management (Eindhoven University of Technology). He is the prominent author of the bestselling books “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Total-Performance-Scorecard-Redefining-Management/dp/0750677147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1249519113&amp;sr=1-1">Total <em>Performance Scorecard: Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity”</em></a> , “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Balanced-Scorecard-Organizational-Effectiveness/dp/1593115318/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1249519276&amp;sr=1-"><em>Personal Balanced Scorecard; </em><em>The Way to Individual Happiness, Personal Integrity and </em><em>Organizational Effectiveness</em>”</a>,  “<a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma/Hubert-K-Rampersad/e/9781593118266"><em>TPS-Lean Six Sigma; </em><em>Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma &#8211; A New Blueprint for C</em><em>reating High Performance Companies”</em></a>, and “<em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6">Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand</a>”</em>, which have been published in many languages. The title of his latest book is <em>&#8220;</em><a href="http://globalvisionpub.com/Bookdesc.aspx?id=1327"><strong><em>Be The CEO of Your Life: The Ultimate Authentic Personal Branding Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd&#8221;</em></strong></a><strong><em>. <a href="http://globalvisionpub.com/Bookdesc.aspx?id=1327"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-677" title="be the CEO of your life cover" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/be-the-ceo-of-your-life-cover.jpg?w=224&#038;h=300" alt="be the CEO of your life cover" width="224" height="300" /></a></em></strong></p>
<p>His books have been endorsed by Professor Paul Bracken (Yale School of Management), Professor Dorothy Leonard (Harvard Business School), Professor Marshall Goldsmith (Harvard Business Press, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author),  Professor Dave Ulrich(University of Michigan, Harvard Business Press bestselling author), and many other leading management gurus in the US.</p>
<p>Dr. Rampersad is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal <em>Training and Management Development Methods </em>(UK), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal <em>Measuring Business Excellence </em>(UK), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the <em>TQM  Magazine</em><em> </em>(UK), and editorial advisor to <em>Singapore Management Review</em>. He is also a member of Marshall Goldsmith&#8217;s prestigious Thought Leader Advisory Board (San Diego), and selected by The <a href="http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/cim/gp/Thought-Leaders.php?type=t">Marshall  Goldsmith School of Management as one of the 35 distinguished thought leaders</a> in the US in the field of leadership development. His views on <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/jun2007/ca20070605_686127.htm?chan=search">happiness in life and work</a> and <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">Authentic Personal Branding</a> were published in <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">BusinessWeek</a>.</p>
<p>Dr. Rampersad is an international crusader for individual’s and company’s happiness and empowerment. His personal mission is: “<em>Enjoy the freedom to develop and share knowledge, especially if this can mean something in the life of others”.</em> His personal brand statement is: <strong>“</strong><em>Passionate and compassionate to inspire learning individuals to unlock their potential and dedicated to energize innovative organizations within the service and manufacturing industry. Using my holistic insight and innovative personal and business management principles, I promise to help my customers to realize their dreams”. </em>Energizing your personal brand is his passion.</p>
<p>His Total Performance Scorecard™, Personal Balanced Scorecard<sup>TM</sup>, Authentic Personal Branding™ and TPS &amp; Lean Six Sigma™ concepts are worldwide registered trademarks. Dr. Rampersad is international crusader for individual’s and company’s happiness and empowerment. He has conducted presentations, workshops and seminars for leading companies such as: Nokia, Philips Electronics, and Shell Oil Company . From 1987 on he has been successful as an international management consultant, trainer, and coach, guiding leading organizations in the areas of his professional interest: personal &amp; corporate branding, personal management, organizational behavior, organizational learning, performance management, TPS &amp; Lean Six Sigma, organizational transformation, and leading complex change. If you would like to keep track of the latest developments in this field, please visit his blog www.rampersad.wordpress.com and his websites <a href="http://www.total-performance-scorecard.com/"><em>www.Total-Performance-Scorecard.com</em></a> and <a href="http://www.rampersad.wordpress.com/"><em>www.pbuniversity.wordpress.com</em></a>. Dr. Rampersad can be reached at h.rampersad@tps-international.com. His professional profile can be viewed on <em>LinkedIn</em>.</p>
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		<title>Authentic Personal Brand Coachingstrippenkaart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authentic personal branding is een nieuw organisch en holistisch  personal branding concept dat momenteel wereldwijd furore maakt  en zich internationaal razendsnel uitbreidt. Uw personal brand is uw  belangrijkste bezit in het huidige online, virtuele en individuele tijdperk en  dé manier om u van anderen te onderscheiden. Het is een strategie die toegepast [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=635&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Authentic personal branding is een nieuw organisch en holistisch  personal branding concept dat momenteel wereldwijd furore maakt  en zich internationaal razendsnel uitbreidt. Uw personal brand is uw  belangrijkste bezit in het huidige online, virtuele en individuele tijdperk en  dé manier om u van anderen te onderscheiden. Het is een strategie die toegepast  wordt door succesvolle mensen zoals Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods,  Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Richard Branson en Bill Gates. Daar waar  traditionele personal branding concepten zich voornamelijk focussen op  persoonlijke marketing en imagovorming leggen wij de nadruk op het creëren,  communiceren en cultiveren van een betrouwbaar en authentiek beeld van uzelf dat  in harmonie is met uw droom en werkelijke waarden, competenties, talenten en  prestaties. Onze authentieke methode stijgt hierdoor ver boven de traditonele  cosmetische branding aanpak uit dankzij een compleet holistisch geheel. We  verwijzen hierbij naar  het hieraan gerelateerde boek van Hubert Rampersad  getiteld “<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6 Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6">Authentic  Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful  leadership brand&#8217; </a>(IAP, USA, 2009) dat inmiddels in 15 talen  is vertaald. Klick <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">hier</a> voor zijn interview onlangs in BusinessWeek. De Nederlandse versie heet  “<a href="http://www.quist.nl/?fuseaction=142">Personal branding; leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit</a>&#8221; (Uitgeverij Quist,  2009).</p>
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<p><strong>Authentic Personal Brand Coachingstrippenkaart</strong></p>
<p>Onze hieraan gerelateerde personalbrandcoaching systeem is bedoeld om u  te coachen bij het ontwikkelen, implementeren en cultiveren van uw authentieke  en gedenkwaardige personal brand. Dit  systeem zal u helpen actief te groeien en uzelf te onderscheiden als een  uitmuntende professional. Het coachingproces omvat 15 sessies van een uur waarbij u tevens wordt  bijgestaan om uzelf te profileren via <a href="http://pbuniversity.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/build-your-business-with-authentic-personal-branding-social-media-marketing/">social  media marketing </a>(netwerken via onder meer Hyves/Twitter/Linkedin/MySpace/Facebook).   U wordt hierbij ook geholpen om uw  potentieel te ontsluiten en een betrouwbaar beeld van uzelf te ontwikkelen dat u  wenst te projecteren bij alles wat u doet. Om  u in dit proces effectief te begeleiden hebben we de online en face  to face Authentic Personal Brand Coachingstrippenkaart ingevoerd. Deze strippenkaart biedt u de mogelijkheid om ons op afroep in te schakelen, waarbij u  telkens gedurende een uur wordt bijgestaan in het ontwikkelen, implementeren en  cultiveren van uw authentieke brand.</p>
<p>Het vereist 8 strippen om je eigen Authentic Personal Brand te ontdekken, te implementeren en effectief te borgen. Een opleidingstraject tot Authentic Personal Brand Coach kost 12 strippen. Daarnaast kost ieder uur online of face tot face authentic personal brand coaching 1 strip. Een strippenkaart van 3 strippen kost EUR 800.  Een strippenkaart van 10 strippen kost EUR 2500 en een strippenkaart van 15 strippen kost EUR 3500. De prijzen zijn excl. BTW.</p>
<p><strong>Voor nadere informatie en bestelling: </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.personalbranding-university.com"><strong>Personal Branding University</strong></a></p>
<p>Dhr. Robert Bense, Master Personal Brand Coach</p>
<p>Mariadal 45, 5916SL Venlo</p>
<p>Tel.: 077- 3200542  Fax: 077-3200543</p>
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<p><strong>‘</strong><em>Met  Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit<strong> </strong>biedt Hubert Rampersad een handboek aan dat hard nodig is voor  kenniswerkers. Hij toont ons allen hoe we ons eigen personal brand kunnen  ontwikkelen – en minstens zo belangrijk – hoe dit brand overtuigend te  communiceren naar de wereld… Ik hou van zijn focus op authenticiteit… Mijn  verzoek aan u, de lezer, is – maak dit boek een deel van uw leven. Lees dit boek  niet slechts voor zijn ‘interessante’ inhoud. Wees niet tevreden met slechts  enkele ‘aha’ momenten. Maak het onderdeel van uw levensplanning – en  uiteindelijk deel van uw leven! Wanneer u dit doet kunt u een meer geïntegreerde  en succesvolle persoon worden – en uw organisatie beter in staat stellen u te  helpen een positief verschil te maken in de wereld!</em>’ – Uit het voorwoord  door <strong><a title="http://tinyurl.com/d5jrkq Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://tinyurl.com/d5jrkq">Marshall Goldsmith</a>.</strong> Auteur van  ‘<em>What you got here won’t get you there</em>’, een <em>New York Times</em> bestseller, <em>Wall Street Journal</em> #1 managementboek en de winnaar van de  Harold Longman Award voor het beste managementboek van het jaar 2007 in Amerika.  Zijn <em>nieuwste boek &#8220;Succession: Are You Ready?&#8221; ,onlangs gepubliceerd door </em><strong>Harvard Business Press (2009)</strong> is inmiddels ook  een <em>Wall Street Journal </em>bestseller. Hij is door de American  Management Association erkend als een van de 50 grootste denkers en leiders die  een invloed hebben gehad op het gebied van management gedurende de laatste 80  jaren.</p>
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TPS-Lean Six Sigma; Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma  
A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance Companies
By Dr.Ir. Hubert Rampersad.

A new blueprint for addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a more sustainable and humanized way is urgently needed, whereby personal and organizational performance, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=625&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Based on a New Groundbreaking Lean Six Sigma Book</p>
<p><strong>TPS-Lean Six Sigma; Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma </strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p>A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance Companies</p>
<p>By Dr.Ir. Hubert Rampersad.</p>
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<p><em>A new blueprint for </em><em>addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service</em><em> in a more sustainable and humanized way is urgently needed, whereby personal and organizational performance, and learning mutually reinforce each other and create a stable basis for a high performance company.</em><em> Traditional business management concepts are insufficiently committed to learning, and rarely take the specific personal ambitions of employees into account. In consequence, there are many superficial improvements, marked by temporary and cosmetic changes, which are coupled with failing projects that lack engaged personnel. This new book emphasizes the introduction of this new blueprint, called TPS-Lean Six Sigma. This model entails the integration of Total Performance Scorecard and Lean Six Sigma. TPS-Lean Six Sigma and the related new tools provide an excellent and innovative framework for</em><em> creating </em><em>a high performance culture and a </em><em>sustainable breakthrough in both the manufacturing and service industries. </em><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma/Hubert-K-Rampersad/e/9781593118266">http://search.barnesandnoble.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma/Hubert-K-Rampersad/e/9781593118266</a></p>
<p>TPS-Lean Six Sigma is like a ‘turbo-charged’ Lean Six Sigma program. All of the proven, sound methodologies of traditional Lean Six Sigma are charged with highly motivated team members.  The result is a powerful people driven Lean Six Sigma program called TPS-Lean Six Sigma that leads to a High Performance Culture and allows employees to realize their full potential and contribute creatively while the organization benefits from increased profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. TPS-Lean Six Sigma is the perfect marriage of Lean Six Sigma and the Total Performance Scorecard. With TPS-Lean Six Sigma, your business, your customer, and your employee’s personal goals are all realized in concert with each other. By integrating human capital into the Lean Six Sigma equation, organizations have the opportunity for exponential, quantum levels of improvement and success. Your customers will be happy, shareholders will be happy, management will be happy, employees will be happy, processes will be optimized, waste will be eliminated, and profits will soar. It is quite possible that now, with TPS-Lean Six Sigma, we actually have reached nirvana.  By way of this master class, Hubert Rampersad is launching a revolutionary, holistic concept called TPS-Lean Six Sigma which actively has human capital embedded in Lean Six Sigma in a manner that not only stimulates commitment, integrity, work-life balance, passion, enjoyment at work and employee engagement but also stimulates individual and team learning in order to develop a motivated workforce and sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement for the organization.</p>
<p>&#8212;MISSING LINKS IN LEAN SIX SIGMA&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>We have been deploying Lean Six Sigma for over the past five years. What we found is that while Lean Six Sigma does a great job addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service, there was something missing, something to keep the momentum going.  That something is Human Capital. That’s right, Lean Six Sigma primarily addresses quality issues, manufacturing issues, transactional issues, customer issues, speed and variability issues. However, unless your organization is run by robots, you still need people to make it all work. There was nothing in Lean Six Sigma that systematically addresses the very real needs of the people who are the heart and soul of any business. Total Performance Scorecard Lean Six Sigma (TPS-Lean Six Sigma) is the only program of its kind that incorporates the element of Human Capital as a structured part of a Lean Six Sigma program. Let’s face it &#8211; you can design the best Lean Six Sigma program in the world, but if the people running it and working within it are not happy themselves, how effective do you think the program will be? Let’s consider the corollary &#8211; what if you had employees that are highly motivated running your Lean Six Sigma initiative?  Wouldn’t that be the best approach?  Would you have to force feed the program to your employees, or will they grab on and move the program along even further then originally envisioned? That is what the authors have included in detail in this book and in their related workshops; How to design, develop, and implement the most powerful Lean Six Sigma program in the world, TPS-Lean Six Sigma. They have combined all the powerful tools and methodologies of Lean and Six Sigma with personal power optimization of the Total Performance Scorecard.  The result is a breakthrough program that increases speed, reduces waste, motivates the workforce, satisfies customers, and drives up profit. See below how based on this revolutionary concept quality has evolved from inspection to TPS-Lean Six Sigma. <a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma/Hubert-K-Rampersad/e/9781593118266">http://search.barnesandnoble.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma/Hubert-K-Rampersad/e/9781593118266</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Advance Praise for TPS-Lean Six Sigma<em>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</em></p>
<p><em>“Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi combine the power of Lean Six Sigma with an approach that stresses the importance and need of developing an organizational structure and philosophy that combines the goals of and aspirations of the individual with those of the company……During my 38 years of business experience, I’ve seen many well developed management concepts being applied without success and that have failed to recognize the importance of aligning the needs and aspirations of employees with those of company objectives. The TPS-Lean Six Sigma concept offers a systematic process of continuous improvement and development of personal and organizational performance with potential for breakthrough results”. &#8212;</em> Ricardo A. Gonzalez Director Worldwide Purchasing, EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Successful implementation of Lean Six Sigma relies on people up and down the organization working together to achieve quality.  Despite best intentions, the importance of the human element in the overall implementation scheme can be overshadowed by a focus on the tools. Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi have written the most important book yet on creating a culture of Lean Six Sigma. It clearly spells out how to address the issues and challenges associated with implementing a comprehensive and effective Lean Six Sigma program</em>&#8220;. &#8212; Stephen Haight, Vice President Global Quality, Bausch &amp; Lomb</p>
<p><em>“Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi continue their superb integration of business, project, and personal life in their new book.  Their disciplined, logical, and scorecard approach to melding business and personal lives will be a major benefit to companies, leaders, and employees.   The new book is full of examples, tools, and exercises that will help individuals discover and align their personal vision and mission to the company where they work.  This book links the lean six sigma profession with human capital in a fully integrated and through way</em>”.&#8211;Dave Ulrich, Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group. He was ranked as #1 management educator and guru by Business Week, #2 among management thinkers by Executive Excellence, and listed by Forbes as one of the “world’s top five” business coaches.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;This book packs a big punch.  Any company interested in improving their quality processes fast needs to incorporate its message.&#8221; &#8211; - </em>Paul Bracken, Professor of Management, Yale School of Management</p>
<p><em>TPS-Lean Six Sigma puts heart in the (Lean) Six Sigma process. It&#8217;s designed for human beings and integrates both process and people to achieve maximum results.&#8211;</em> Marshall Goldsmith is a world renowned executive coach and the author of the <em>New York Times </em>best seller <em>What Got You Here Won&#8217;t Get You There</em>. He is recognized by the American Management Association as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have impacted the field of management over the past 80 years.</p>
<p><em>The major difference between two companies in the same industry lies not with the machines they use, not with their locations, not with their advertising campaigns, and not with their buildings, but rather with the people who work there&#8211;their skills, their talents, the processes they carry out, and especially with the motivation they bring to the job.  TPS &#8211; Lean Six Sigma provides a guidepost for executives to craft an organization that both celebrates individual differences while molding disparate individuals into an efficient team executing the right processes smartly.  It was once said of a great sports coach (Bum Phillips) that &#8220;he could take &#8216;hissen&#8217; and beat &#8216;youren&#8217; or he could take &#8216;youren&#8217; and beat &#8216;hissen&#8217;.&#8221;  TPS &#8211; Lean Six Sigma will teach you how to do that: how to build upon widely ranging individual strengths so as to combine them into a set of efficient and effective performers who deliver value with no waste and target precisely what customers desire.&#8211;</em> Professor Francis D.Tuggle, Ph. D., Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, California</p>
<p><em>“Aligning personal goals with organizational goals in the deployment of Lean Six Sigma is brilliant! This book will help many organizations whose deployment of Lean Six Sigma was not as they had anticipated and will make the journey much more rewarding for those just starting.”</em> &#8212; Reginald Stewart, Quality Officer and Six Sigma Master Black Belt,  University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital, USA</p>
<p><em>“TPS-Lean Six Sigma is a wonderful, thought provoking concept that we will incorporate into all of our quality training.  Lean Six Sigma has helped many of our customers improve their product or service.  It is my hope that with TPS-Lean Six Sigma, we can now begin to address how these quality tools affect the most important part of any organization, its people.”—</em>Charles J. Caples, Program Director Workforce Development, Monroe Community College, USA</p>
<p><em>The TPS &#8211; Lean Six Sigma book is a synergetic approach and business perspective for leading companies; a major contribution in the cohesive development of organizations. By aligning and combining human and organizational interests Hubert Rampersad and Anwar El-Homsi created a</em><em><br />
</em><em>thorough concept for successful improvement of organizational and human behaviour. Enjoy the richness of the content and you will understand that implementing TPS-LSS generates self propelling engagement and related results.</em> &#8212; Ad Rutten, Executive Vice President &amp; COO, Schiphol Group, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, the Netherlands.</p>
<p><em>“TPS – Lean Six Sigma is an excellent book on a topic that is so important in today&#8217;s business climate. It describes in a very pragmatic and structured way how to improve company performance and personal satisfaction of employees by aligning company- and personal objectives. Optimizing business processes and enhancing personal engagement does not only result in an enhanced  performance but  also addresses sustainability of realized improvements over time.  A highly readable and useful book”. </em>&#8211; Paul Stuyvenberg Vice President Corporate Quality Management, ASML, the Netherlands.</p>
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<p>This master class focuses on executives and managers and covers the following topics:</p>
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<li>TPS-Lean Six Sigma concepts and philosophy</li>
<li>Personal, Organizational and Project balanced scorecard</li>
<li>How to coach Champions and Master Black Belts effectively</li>
<li>Personal leadership development based on the PBSC</li>
<li>How to create an atmosphere of trust, commitment, teamwork, creativity, and learning within project teams, based on TPS-Lean Six Sigma</li>
<li>Personal effectiveness and employee engagement</li>
<li>Working smarter and result oriented</li>
<li>Employee performance and effective talent management</li>
<li>Personal responsibility and personal integrity</li>
<li>Enjoyment and inner involvement (commitment) at work</li>
<li>Defined roles and responsibilities of the leadership team</li>
<li>Personal versus Corporate Branding</li>
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<p>&#8212;&#8212;-Program Benefits&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>You will:</p>
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<li>be able to create sustainable breakthrough in both the service and manufacturing industries</li>
<li>be able to successfully address the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a sustainable and a more holistic way.</li>
<li>be able to design, implement, and deploy customer and human focused TPS-Lean Six Sigma initiatives in your organization</li>
<li>be able to manage your TPS-Lean Six Sigma project successfully</li>
<li>learn techniques to increase employee/project member’s engagement and develop a happy workforce of committed employees/project members</li>
<li>create conditions for a real learning organization and a High Performance Culture</li>
<li>improve your coaching skills to maximize the personal development of your employees/project members and to manage, develop and utilize their talents effectively</li>
<li>improve their ability to work  productively and harmoniously together as a team and create quality results<em></em></li>
<li>be able to stimulate their personal integrity, work-life balance, passion, and enjoyment at work<em></em></li>
<li>be able to stimulate individual and team learning and sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement.</li>
<li>drive transformational change in your organization and business results due to the transformation in employee’s motivation and engagement</li>
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<p>Authentic personal branding is een nieuw organisch en holistisch personal branding concept van <a title="http://rampersad.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/hubert-rampersads-life-story/ Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://rampersad.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/hubert-rampersads-life-story/">prof.dr.ir. Hubert Rampersad</a> uit Nederland dat momenteel wereldwijd furore maakt en zich internationaal razendsnel uitbreidt. Uw personal brand is uw belangrijkste bezit in het huidige online, virtuele en individuele tijdperk en dé manier om u van anderen te onderscheiden. Het is een strategie die toegepast wordt door succesvolle mensen zoals <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cm4v36">Barack Obama</a>, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Richard Branson en Bill Gates. Waar traditionele personal branding concepten uit Amerika zich voornamelijk focussen op persoonlijke marketing (verkopen en promoten van uzelf) en imagovorming (egotripperij) stijgt deze authentieke methode ver boven deze cosmetische branding methoden uit dankzij een compleet holistisch geheel. Daar waar deze methoden het vooral hebben over snel bekend en rijk worden door uzelf goed te verkopen heeft Rampersad het over het creëren van  een betrouwbaar beeld van uzelf dat in harmonie is met uw werkelijke waarden, droom en talenten. Onlangs heeft hij zijn hieraan gerelateerde  boek getiteld “<a title="http://tinyurl.com/dl3z4b Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://tinyurl.com/dl3z4b">Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217; </a>en &#8220;<a href="http://globalvisionpub.com/Bookdesc.aspx?id=1327">Be The CEO of Your Life</a>&#8221; vanuit  zijn woonplaats Amerika in 20 talen gelanceerd. De Nederlandse versie heet “Personal branding; leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit&#8221;, ISBN 978-90-77983-34-8, Uitgeverij Quist. Voor meer informatie, click op  <a href="http://www.quist.nl/?fuseaction=142">link</a> . Zie ook zijn interview in BusinessWeek door Marshall Goldsmith, door te clicken op <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">interview</a>.</p>
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<p>Het was<strong> </strong>Roel Pieper die Rampersad inspireerde met zijn voorwoord in Rampersad&#8217;s vorige boek, &#8220;Personal Balanced Scorecard&#8221;, waarin hij ondermeer schreef: &#8220;Dit boek is uitmuntend op tijd en on target. Het is een van de eerste tastbare en bruikbare middelen om een persoon de kans te geven zijn agenda te zetten, te volgen, te meten en te verbeteren. Met deze nieuwe methode beginnen we de lange weg naar een samenleving waar de persoon centraal zal gaan staan, met een grotere verantwoordelijkheid als ooit te voren. In een complexere en hardere wereld als tot nu gezien en beleefd. Deze aanpak zal de huidige maar vooral de volgende generatie beter en sterker maken voor de “personal age” die voor de deur staat voor ons allen.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>Lof voor dit boek van de top-2 Harvard Business School branding gurus</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>‘</strong><em>Met Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit<strong> </strong>biedt Hubert Rampersad een handboek aan dat hard nodig is voor kenniswerkers. Hij toont ons allen hoe we ons eigen personal brand kunnen ontwikkelen – en minstens zo belangrijk – hoe dit brand overtuigend te communiceren naar de wereld… Ik hou van zijn focus op authenticiteit… Mijn verzoek aan u, de lezer, is – maak dit boek een deel van uw leven. Lees dit boek niet slechts voor zijn ‘interessante’ inhoud. Wees niet tevreden met slechts enkele ‘aha’ momenten. Maak het onderdeel van uw levensplanning – en uiteindelijk deel van uw leven! Wanneer u dit doet kunt u een meer geïntegreerde en succesvolle persoon worden – en uw organisatie beter in staat stellen u te helpen een positief verschil te maken in de wereld!</em>’ – Uit het voorwoord door <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/d5jrkq">Marshall Goldsmith</a>.</strong> Auteur van ‘<em>What you got here won’t get you there</em>’, een <em>New York Times</em> bestseller, <em>Wall Street Journal</em> #1 managementboek en de winnaar van de Harold Longman Award voor het beste managementboek van het jaar 2007 in Amerika. Hij is door de American Management Association erkend als een van de 50 grootste denkers en leiders die een invloed hebben gehad op het gebied van management gedurende de laatste 80 jaren.</p>
<p>‘<em>Hubert Rampersad heeft gevoel voor het ontwikkelen van begrijpelijke concepten voor het analyseren van belangrijke zaken… Het door hem voorgestelde vier-fasenmodel biedt een expliciete manier om een gewenste externe identiteit in iets concreets en handelbaar te vormen. Het is een geweldige stap-voor-stap aanpak om uw brand expliciet te maken… De mentale modellen en hun bijbehorende onderzoeksvragen helpen u te onderkennen waar u vandaag de dag staat, zodat u kunt komen waar u morgen wenst te zijn… Dit boek biedt een architectuur om deze ideeën om te zetten in actie’</em>. Uit het nawoord door <strong><a href="http://tinyurl.com/dz8ttd">Dave Ulrich</a>,</strong> Professor of Business, University of Michigan, en partner van de RBL Group. Co-auteur van het bestselling boek <strong>‘Leadership Brand’ (Harvard Business Press, 2007).</strong> Hij is als #1 management educator en goeroe geclassificeerd door Business Week, #2 binnen management denkers door Executive Excellence en door Forbes benoemd als een van de wereld’s top vijf business coaches.</p>
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<p><strong>Masterclass <a title="http://tinyurl.com/dmhaoo Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://tinyurl.com/dmhaoo">AUTHENTIC PERSONAL BRANDING </a></strong></p>
<p>Datum: 1 december 2009</p>
<p>Trainer/coach: dr.ir. Hubert Rampersad</p>
<p>Locatie: Novotel Rotterdam, Brainpark</p>
<p>Leerdoelen; Na deze masterclass:</p>
<p>-          Bent u in staat om een sterke authentieke personal brand te ontwikkelen die echt is en deze op effectieve wijze te implementeren, onderhouden en cultiveren;</p>
<p>-          Bent u in staat om op basis van uw personal brand positieve percepties en emoties bij anderen inzake uw uniekheid en onderscheidend vermogen te stimuleren;</p>
<p>-          Weet u hoe u uw authentieke brand op consistente wijze naar uw potentiele klanten kunt communiceren en op unieke wijze kunt aangeven waar u voor staat, wat uw toegevoegde waarde is en wat u uniek en speciaal maakt;</p>
<p>-          Bent u in staat om uzelf sterk te positioneren in de markt en uzelf boven de concurrentie te plaatsen;</p>
<p>-          Bent u in staat een sterke reputatie en een betrouwbaar imago op te bouwen die u effectief kunt projecteren in alles wat u doet;</p>
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		<title>Book review “Personal branding, leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit”  door Marshall Goldsmith</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ik heb gedurende tien jaar het privilege gehad te dienen in de Board van de Peter Drucker Foundation (nu de Leader to Leader Institute). Peter was een pionier in het begrijpen van de invloed van kenniswerkers in de nieuwe economie. Hij definieerde kenniswerkers simpelweg als ‘mensen die meer weten over wat ze doen dan hun [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=611&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Ik heb gedurende tien jaar het privilege gehad te dienen in de Board van de Peter Drucker Foundation (nu de Leader to Leader Institute). Peter was een pionier in het begrijpen van de invloed van kenniswerkers in de nieuwe economie. Hij definieerde kenniswerkers simpelweg als ‘mensen die meer weten over wat ze doen dan hun baas weet’. In een wereld waar kenniswerkers de belangrijkste waarde van een organisatie zijn, wordt personal branding van eminent belang. Professionals op ieder niveau moeten in staat zijn hun personal brand binnen en tussen organisaties te communiceren – en moeten in staat zijn effectief naar beslissingsmakers te communiceren die niet hun niveau van technisch expertise bezitten. De grote ironie die ik vaak tegenkom bij werknemers is het feit dat vele technisch opgeleide professionals jaren hebben besteed aan het verfijnen van hun vakmanschap en het ontwikkelen van hun expertise – doch vrijwel geen tijd hebben besteed aan het effectief leren communiceren van deze expertise op basis van een krachtig personal brand.</p>
<p>In <em>Personal branding, leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit (</em>uitgeverij Quist, augustus 2008), heeft Hubert Rampersad een boek gelanceerd dat hard nodig is vooral voor kenniswerkers. Hij toont ons allen hoe we ons eigen authentiek personal brand kunnen bouwen – en minstens zo belangrijk – hoe dit brand overtuigend en gepassioneerd te communiceren naar de wereld. In de wereld van vandaag van globale concurrentie, toenemende druk en continue communicatie werken de meeste professionals die ik ontmoet harder dan ze ooit in hun leven gewerkt hebben. Wanneer u 60 &#8211; 80 uur per week werkt – terwijl u niet geniet van uw werk en u zich niet geestelijk verbonden voelt met wat u doet – leeft u in een erg pijnlijke plaats genaamd <em>new age professional hel</em>. Daar leven vandaag de dag veel te veel professionals! Dr. Rampersad versterkt continu de band tussen persoonlijk en professioneel welzijn.</p>
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<p>Ik hou van Huberts focus op authenticiteit. Gezien de ongelooflijke verwachtingen en eisen waar de professionals van vandaag tegenaan lopen, moet toewijding wel echt zijn. <em>Faking it </em>voor zoveel uren is gewoon te pijnlijk! Het creëren van een authentieke verbinding tussen de waarden die we uitdragen en de waarden die we leven maakt ons niet enkel betere mensen, het stelt ons in staat gelukkigere en productievere levens te leiden. Tenslotte, professionals moeten personal brand en corporate brand verbinden en integreren. Veel te veel organisaties hebben <em>value statements </em>aan de muur hangen die niets te maken hebben met het gedrag van hun leiders. Organisaties moeten professionals aannemen wiens waarden en gedrag consistent zijn met hun personal brand.</p>
<p>Mijn verzoek aan u, de lezer, is – maak dit boek een deel van uw leven. Lees dit boek niet slechts voor zijn ‘interessante’ inhoud. Wees niet tevreden met slechts enkele ‘aha’ momenten. Maak het onderdeel van uw levensplanning – en uiteindelijk deel van uw leven! Wanneer u dit doet kunt u een meer geïntegreerde en succesvolle persoon worden – en uw organisatie beter in staat stellen u te helpen een positief verschil te maken in de wereld!</p>
<p>Marshall Goldsmith</p>
<p>Auteur van <em>What you got here won’t get you there</em>, een <em>New York Times </em>bestseller, <em>Wall </em><em>Street Journal </em>#1 managementboek en de winnaar van de Harold Longman Award voor het beste managementboek van 2007 in Amerika.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Nadat u het uitstekende boek “<em>Personal branding, leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit” (</em>uitgeverij Quist, augustus 2008) van Hubert Rampersad heeft gelezen vraagt u zich waarschijnlijk af wat betekent dit allemaal? Het is vrijwel onmogelijk om alle details van de vier fasen van het authentieke personalbrandingmodel te onthouden, maar u wilt wel sommige van de boodschappen uit dit boek en hoe zij op u en uw persoonlijke en professionele leven kunnen worden toegepast onthouden. Natuurlijk kunt u terugvallen op enkele van de simpele en elegante modellen voor persoonlijke en organisatieambitie, doelen, kritische succesfactoren en acties. Hubert Rampersad heeft gevoel voor het ontwikkelen van begrijpelijke concepten voor het analyseren van belangrijke zaken. U kunt ook reflecteren op de vele zelf- en organisatiediagnose vragen die u inzicht in uw brand en het corporate brand bieden. Deze mentale modellen en de hieraan gerelateerde onderzoeksvragen zullen u helpen te begrijpen waar u vandaag de dag staat zodat u kunt komen waar u morgen wilt zijn. We hebben de neiging van boeken en ideeën te houden die onze gedachten bevestigen en informeren. Beiden zijn waar voor mij bij dit boek. Met mijn collega’s Wayne Brockbank, Norm Smallwood en Jon Younger hebben we nagedacht, gedebatteerd en geschreven over zaken die gerelateerd zijn aan de organisatie, leiderschap en personal brand. We zijn gefocust op het helpen van leiders om hun vaardigheden te ontwikkelen, hoe talenten binnen een organisatie te cultiveren en hoe P&amp;O-praktijken te gebruiken om waarde te creëren en vast te houden. Veel van de thema’s in dit boek bevestigen onze gedachten. Maar, dit werk informeert onze gedachten ook en helpt ons vooruit te komen in wat we weten en doen. Terwijl iedere lezer unieke inzichten opdoet uit dit boek, zal ik proberen enkele van mijn belangrijkste bevinddingen samen te vatten.</p>
<p> <strong>1. Personal brand bestaat</strong></p>
<p>Of we het nu willen of niet, we hebben allemaal een personal brand. We hebben een identiteit waarmee we bekend staan bij degenen die ons het beste en het minste kennen. Deze persoonlijke identiteit stuurt signalen uit over hoe we behandeld willen worden en filtert hoe anderen zich met ons verbinden en omgaan. Wanneer ons personal brand impliciet en onbewust is kunnen we verbaasd staan over hoe we met anderen omgaan. Wanneer ons personal brand bewust en gedisciplineerd is kunnen we vorm geven aan hoe we behandeld worden. Onze levens zijn veel minder ingewikkeld</p>
<p>wanneer we ons personal brand identificeren en hiernaar handelen. Toen ik een missie voor onze kerk leidde, had ik de leiding over vijfhonderd jongen mannen en vrouwen die 18 tot 24 maanden van hun leven wijdden aan maatschappelijke dienstverlening. In deze tijd leefden zij een erg monnikachtig leven, en onthielden zij zich van de normale sociale en feestnormen van hun generatie. Zij werkten om morele principes te herkennen en leren en onthielden zich van zaken die hen af zouden leiden van hun missie. Aan het einde van hun dienst keerden zij terug naar de ‘echte’ wereld waar zij zouden worden verleid toe te geven aan meer algemene patronen. Een jonge man was erg ongerust, omdat hij na de missie bij het leger zou gaan. In ons laatste gesprek uitte hij zijn ongerustheid of hij in staat zou zijn volgens de waarden te blijven leven die hij opgedaan had tijdens de missie. We spraken over de vier drieën. Ik beloofde hem dat als hij volgens zijn waarden zou kunnen leven zonder fanfare voor drie uren, drie dagen, drie weken en drie maanden, hij geen moeite zou hebben zijn leven volgens zijn waarden te leven. Hij testte mijn ideeën. Ongeveer zes maanden later zagen we hem weer en hij gaf aan dat hij het nu makkelijk vond volgens zijn waarden te leven. Na drie maanden doen wat hij voelde</p>
<p>dat juist was had hij een reputatie (of personal brand) ontwikkeld zoals anderen hem zagen. Zijn medesoldaten hadden geleerd waar hij waarde aan hechtte en zagen dat hij ook conform deze waarden leefde. Zij respecteerden zijn verwachtingen en beschermden hem zelf tegen vreemden die hem niet kenden door te zeggen ‘nodig Cody niet uit voor deze activiteit, het is niet iets waar hij in geïnteresseerd zou zijn’. Wanneer we duidelijk zijn over ons personal brand zullen anderen ons respecteren en ons helpen ons brand te behouden. Als we niet helder zijn over ons personal</p>
<p>brand, en ons gedrag varieert, zullen anderen niet weten hoe ze ons moeten behandelen</p>
<p>en zullen we worstelen voor consistentie in ons leven.</p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>2. Een personal brand kan worden gecreëerd en ontwikkeld</strong></p>
<p>Toen ik besloot dat ik leraar wilde worden erkende ik dat spreken voor een publiek niet mijn sterke punt is. Als een sterke introvert vond ik het moeilijk om voor grote groepen te staan. Toch wist ik dat als ik een goede spreker wilde zijn ik de angst door vertrouwen moest vervangen. Ik wilde een reputatie als een goede en gedachtevolle leraar ontwikkelen. Dus ging ik de beste professoren op de universiteit van Michigan en andere plaatsen observeren. Ik maakte aantekeningen niet zozeer over wat zei vertelden, maar over hoe zij dit brachten. Ik experimenteerde met lesstijlen en aanpakken.</p>
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<p>Ik zocht naar gedetailleerde feedback over hoe mijn inspanningen werkten. Ik dacht na over wat ik zei en hoe ik het zei. Ik maakte aantekeningen voor mezelf over wat werkte en wat niet werkte bij presentaties. Nu, 20 jaar later, voel ik me nog steeds iets of wat ongemakkelijk voor groepen, maar ik heb mijn persoonlijke identiteit vormgegeven. In een grote herziening op de literatuur over nature (ben je geboren met bepaalde vaardigheden of kun je deze ontwikkelen) vond de Society for Industrial Psychology dat dit ongeveer fifty/fifty is. Ongeveer de helft van wie we zijn (onze personal brand) is sterk verbonden met onze genen. Als we ouder worden zien we onze ouders terugkijken in de spiegel. En de helft is wat we kiezen te worden. Rekening houdend met dit denk ik dat we bewust het brand kunnen creëren die we willen worden. De vier stappen van Hubert bieden een geweldige stap-voor-stap aanpak om ons gewenste brand expliciet te maken. Brands evolueren. Ze kunnen zich aanpassen door onze bewuste reflectie en actie. Terwijl we veel verschuldigd zijn aan ons verleden, zijn we er niet aan geboden.</p>
<p> <strong>3. Organisaties hebben een brand dat de cultuur wordt;</strong></p>
<p>Wanneer we deelnemers in workshops vragen de lege vakken in te vullen bij ‘onze organisatiecultuur is ons &#8230;’, antwoorden de meeste deelnemers met woorden of zinnen zoals: waarden, normen, geloof, gedrag, verwachtingen of geaccepteerde wijze van het doen van dingen. Terwijl we het niet oneens zijn met deze geaccepteerde definities, denken we toch dat er een betere manier is om cultuur te definiëren. Al deze observaties leggen de nadruk op de binnenkant, waar ‘wij’ om bekend staan en</p>
<p>doen. Ergens anders hebben we beargumenteerd dat de organisatiecultuur het beste van buiten naar binnen gedefinieerd kan worden. Als we werken met teams van leidinggevenden beginnen we vaak met ‘gezien uw strategie, wat zijn de top drie zaken waar u om bekend wilt staan bij uw klanten?’ Deze vraag legt de nadruk op de buitenkant, klanten. Wat is de identiteit (brand) waar u om bekend wilt staan bij degenen die gebruik maken van uw diensten. Wanneer het topmanagement een uniforme identiteit heeft, maakt zij dit werkelijkheid voor klanten en vertaalt zij deze externe identiteit door in de interne management praktijken, en heeft zij een cultuur vormgegeven die waarde creëert en duurzaam is. Het vierfasenmodel van Hubert stelt een expliciete manier voor om een gewenste externe identiteit om te zetten in iets concreets en waarop actie kan worden ondernomen. Wanneer het externe brand de interne cultuur is, wordt echte waarde gecreëerd. In Leadership brand spreken we over hoe succesvol leiderschap bestaat wanneer leiders op ieder niveau binnen de organisatie in overeenstemming met de verwachtingen van klanten handelen. In HR value proposition suggereren we dat alle P&amp;O activiteiten (staf, training, compensatie, communicatie, werkontwerp) kunnen en moeten worden afgestemd op de verwachtingen van de klanten.</p>
<p> <strong>4. Afstemming van het corporate brand en personal brand wordt een belangrijk punt op de agenda van leiderschap. </strong></p>
<p>Leiders geven het beste leiding wanneer zij de volgende generatie leiders ontwikkelen die de juiste dingen goed doen. We hebben gesteld dat goed leiderschap niet enkel gaat om wat de individuele leider weet en doet, maar om hoe leiderschap een vaardigheid van de organisatie wordt die niet enkel gebonden is aan een individuele leider. Een krachtig brand bestaat wanneer het niet slechts een enkel product of dienst betreft, maar de reputatie van de organisatie met vele producten en diensten. Toen het Marriott hotel zijn naam op zijn brand zette (Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn, Courtyard) ging het consumentenvertrouwen omhoog. Het is niet een product, maar de Marriott reputatie die een brand kreeg. Vergelijkbaar bestaat een leiderschapsbrand wanneer leiders van alle niveaus handelen om klantverwachtingen in medewerkeracties om te zetten. Wanneer de externe verwachtingen van klanten de interne aanpakken van de medewerkers worden, winnen alle stakeholders. Investeerders verhogen de aandeelwaarde vanwege de ontastbare waarde van de organisatie. Klanten hebben niet alleen vertrouwen in het product van vandaag, maar ook in de vaardigheid van morgen om een stroom van diensten en producten te blijven bieden. Medewerkers kunnen handelen naar een</p>
<p>medewerker value proposition en brand die hen aan de organisatie verbindt. In de populaire organisatieliteratuur wordt de laatste tijd verteld dat we onze sterke punten moeten ontwikkelen. Het is erg moeilijk het niet eens te zijn met deze logica. Marcus Buckingham en anderen hebben gesteld dat het ontdekken van wat we het beste kunnen de eerste stap is op weg naar duurzaam succes. Leiders wiens sterke punten bijvoorbeeld liggen op het gebied van creativiteit zullen succesvoller zijn in innovatieve organisatie en werkomgevingen. Maar het uitbouwen van uw sterke punten is niet genoeg als deze sterke punten geen waarde creëren voor degenen die u leidt. Op school studeerde ik af in Engels. Ik ontwikkelde een aanleg voor het lezen van boeken. Ik kon twee tot drie boeken per week lezen en vond dit makkelijk, enerverend en plezierig. Maar sindsdien heb ik gevonden dat weinig mensen waarde hechten aan mijn kracht op het gebied van het lezen van boeken. Waar zij werkelijk om geven is mijn vaardigheid een situatie te analyseren op manieren die hen helpen hun doelen te bereiken. Lezen en interpreteren van goed schrijven is een duurzame kracht wanneer het mijn vaardigheid om diagnoses te stellen en anderen te helpen met hun problemen informeert. Volgens een recente film, The bucket list, geloven de Egyptenaren dat de poortwachters van de hemel twee vragen stellen aan nieuwe aankomsten over hun leven op de aarde: heeft u plezier gevonden? Heeft u plezier aan anderen gebracht? De eerste vraag gaat over het ontwikkelen van uw sterke punten om plezier te vinden. Het is noodzakelijk, maar niet voldoende. Het gaat om de ‘ik’, niet om anderen. De tweede vraag verlegt de focus van plezier naar het helpen van anderen om dit te vinden. Om dit in termen van de sterke-punten discussie te stellen, dit betekent dat we onze sterke punten moeten ontwikkelen die andere versterken. Leiders kunnen ernaar streven kracht in authenticiteit, beoordeling, emotionele intelligentie, geloofwaardigheid en andere nobele kenmerken te verkrijgen. Maar tenzij en totdat zij deze sterke punten toepassen op manieren die waarde creëren voor anderen zijn ze niet volledig succesvol. Enkelen binnen de sterke-punten discussie hebben de conclusie van Seligman gemist die hij in 2004 in zijn boek Authentic happiness bereikte: ‘Het betekenisvolle leven: het gebruiken van uw kenmerkende sterke punten en waarden om iets te dienen dat groter is dan u bent.’</p>
<p>Voor leiders betekent dit dat het niet genoeg is om uw werk goed te doen. We moeten ook onze sterktes gebruiken om waarde voor anderen te creëren.</p>
<p> <strong>Conclusie</strong></p>
<p>Deze vier aandachtspunten zijn niet wereldbestormend, maar zij geven wel vorm aan hoe ik denk over organisaties waar ik adviseer, werk en leer. Zij helpen mij beseffen dat mijn persoonlijke reputatie verbonden moet zijn aan de gewenste reputatie van de organisatie. Dit boek biedt een kader om deze ideeën in actie om te zetten.</p>
<p> Dave Ulrich, Professor, University of Michigan</p>
<p>Co-auteur van de internationale bestsellers “<em>Leadership Brand” (</em> Harvard Business Press, 2007) en “<em>HR Value Proposition” (</em>Harvard Business Press, 2005).</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://twitter.com/PBUniversity"></a>Goed en deskundig zijn in uw werkveld is niet voldoende. Het is tijd om serieuze inspanning te gaan steken in het ontdekken van uw authentieke personal brand. Iedereen heeft een personal brand, maar de meeste personen zijn zich hier niet van bewust. U moet uw brand en de boodschap die het brengt effectief managen en beïnvloedden hoe anderen u ervaren. Dit zal u helpen actief te groeien en uzelf te onderscheidden als een uitmuntende professional. Het hebben van een effectieve brand lijkt een erg belangrijk bezit te zijn geworden in het online, virtuele en individuele tijdperk van vandaag. Het wordt steeds essentiëler en is de sleutel tot persoonlijk succes. Het is een strategie die toegepast wordt door de meest succesvolle mensen ter wereld. Hieronder volgen tien tips voor het ontwikkelen en managen van een sterke personal brand, gebaseerd op mijn nieuwste boek “<em>Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit</em>” (uitgeverij Quist, augustus 2008).</p>
<p> <strong>                                     Tien tips voor een effectieve personal brand</strong></p>
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<li><em>Authenticiteit</em>; wees uw eigen brand. U bent de CEO van uzelf. Uw brand moet gebouwd zijn op uw eigen persoonlijkheid. Het toont uw karakter, gedrag, waarden en visie. Het hoort daarom afgestemd te worden op uw persoonlijke ambitie;</li>
<li><em>Integriteit</em>; u moet zich houden aan de morele en gedragscodes die bepaald zijn door uw persoonlijke ambitie;</li>
<li><em>Consistentie</em>; u moet consistent gedrag tonen. Hiervoor heeft u moed nodig. Kunnen anderen altijd op u rekenen? Doet u constant relevante dingen? Bijvoorbeeld: hamburgers, cheeseburgers en Big Macs van McDonalds zijn altijd hetzelfde;</li>
<li><em>Specialisatie</em>; focus op één gebied of specialisatie. Wees nauwkeurig, geconcentreerd op een enkel kerntalent of unieke vaardigheid. Het zijn van een generalist, zonder specifieke vaardigheden, bekwaamheden of talenten, maakt u niet uniek, speciaal en anders;</li>
<li><em>Autoriteit</em>; word gezien als een erkende expert op een specifiek gebied, zeer getalenteerd, zeer ervaren en een effectieve leider;</li>
<li><em>Onderscheidendheid</em>; onderscheid uzelf aan de hand van uw brand. Het moet op een onderscheidende manier uitgedrukt worden die anders is dan de concurrentie en toegevoegde waarde bieden aan anderen. De doelgroep zal snel kunnen begrijpen waar het voor staat wanneer het helder geformuleerd is;</li>
<li><em>Relevant</em>; waar u voor staat moet verbonden zijn aan wat uw publiek als belangrijk beschouwt;</li>
<li><em>Zichtbaar</em>; het moet net zo lang uitgedragen worden, continu, consistent en herhaaldelijk, totdat het ingebed is in de hoofden van de doelgroep. Het gaat hier om herhaling en lange termijn blootstelling;</li>
<li><em>Vasthoudendheid</em>; uw brand heeft tijd nodig om te groeien. Het behoort organisch ontwikkeld te worden. U moet eraan vast blijven houden, niet opgeven, in uzelf geloven en geduldig zijn. Het heeft grootse brands zoals Tiger Woods en Oprah Winfrey jaren van toewijding, opoffering, moed, planning en geduld om door te zetten gekost om de iconen te worden die ze nu zijn;</li>
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<p>10.  <em>Goodwill</em>; mensen doen zaken met mensen die hen bevallen. Uw personal brand zal tot betere resultaten leiden en langer meegaan wanneer u op een positieve manier wordt gezien. U moet geassocieerd worden met een waarde die herkend wordt als positief en waardevol. De goodwill van de brand van Bill Gates helpt de wereld een betere plaats te maken door middel van de Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, op dit moment de grootste transparant opererende liefdadigheidsinstelling in de wereld;</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-600" title="Nederlands PB book" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nederlands-pb-book3.jpg?w=300&#038;h=424" alt="Nederlands PB book" width="300" height="424" /></a></p>
<p>Wanneer u uw brand conform deze criteria heeft ontwikkeld en u zichzelf heeft gecommitteerd</p>
<p>hiernaar te handelen zal uw brand sterk zijn, zult u uzelf onderscheiden van de rest en zal uw doelgroep uw brand beter begrijpen.</p>
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<p>Dit artikel is gebaseerd op het nieuwste boek van Hubert Rampersad, getiteld “<em>Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit</em>” (uitgeverij Quist, Leidschendam) dat in 20 talen is vertaald<em>. </em>Hij is president van Personal Branding University in Amerika en partner bij Personal Branding Academy Nederland. Hij is te bereiken via <a href="mailto:h.rampersad@tps-international.com">h.rampersad@tps-international.com</a> en www.rampersad.wordpress.com</p>
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		<title>Social media marketing in combinatie met authentic personal branding biedt veel kansen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Een verschijnsel dat vanaf het afgelopen jaar sterk in opkomst is, is social media marketing. Social media marketing, gebaseerd is op authentic personal branding, is dé manier voor indviduen en organisaties  om in het huidige online, virtule, individuele en internet tijdperk succesvol te zijn. Social media is een ideaal kanaal voor  het delen van informatie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=594&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Een verschijnsel dat vanaf het afgelopen jaar sterk in opkomst is, is social media marketing. Social media marketing, gebaseerd is op authentic personal branding, is dé manier voor indviduen en organisaties  om in het huidige online, virtule, individuele en internet tijdperk succesvol te zijn. Social media is een ideaal kanaal voor  het delen van informatie en socialiseren met anderen op basis van online dialoog. Social media marketing heeft betrekking op het distribrueren van deze informatie via internet. Deze informatie dient in harmonie te zijn met uw authentieke personal brand teneinde belangstelling voor uw informatie op te wekken en positief op te vallen. Authentic personal branding omvat het creëren, communiceren en cultiveren van een betrouwbaar en authentiek beeld van uzelf dat in harmonie is met uw droom en werkelijke waarden, competenties, talenten en prestaties.</p>
<p>Social media marketing is een van de snelst groeiende specialisaties binnen de online marketing dicipline.Traditionele media zoals, kranten, tijdschriften, radio en TV, bepalen de informatie die u te zien of te horen krijgt  en bepalen de kleur van deze informatie. Bij social media heeft u een stem, kunt u uw mening geven, is er interactie, kunt u discusseren via uw blog, video’s delen via YouTube, foto’s versturen met Flickr, delen van kennis via <a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/">wikipedia</a><strong>,</strong> netwerken via social networking sites zoals<strong> Hyves/Twitter/Linkedin/MySpace/Facebook, etc. </strong>Via forums kan over van alles en nog wat gediscussieerd worden en met uw omgeving worden gesocialiseerd. Waar het bij  de traditionele media om eenrichtingsverkeer gaat, is bij social media  sprake van dialoog van meerdere kanten.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-597" title="Nederlands PB book" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nederlands-pb-book2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=424" alt="Nederlands PB book" width="300" height="424" /></a></p>
<p>Ik gebruik social media marketing om te netwerken en klantrelaties op te bouwen. Dit gaat gepaard met meer traffic naar mijn websites, met als gevolg meer klanten en omzet. Dit heb ik kunnen realiseren omdat het onlosmakelijk verbonden is met mijn authentic personal brand. Mijn informatie op Twitter/Linkedin/MySpace/Facebook (mijn e-portfolio) is opgebouwd uit: a) mijn persoonlijke gegevens, b) mijn ambitie/droom, endorsements, CV, prestaties en resultaten en c) samenvatting hiervan om aan anderen te laten zien (showcase). Authentic personal branding in combinatie met uw  e-portfolio biedt u de mogelijkheid om uw eigen leerproces effectief te managen aan de hand van uw performances en de resultaten aan anderen te tonen. Ook Barack Obama maakt op deze wijze intensief en effectief gebruik van social media. Zo heeft hij een paar duizend connecties op LinkedIn en ruim anderhalf miljoen volgers op Twitter. Ook Jan Peter Balkenende is actief op Twitter en Linkedin<strong>,</strong> maar heeft echter veel minder connecties.</p>
<p>Wij organiseren de masterclass “Build Your Business with AUTHENTIC PERSONAL BRANDING &amp; SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING”, welke door ondergetekende verzorgd zal worden. Tijdens deze praktijkgerichte training wordt u in staat gesteld om met minimale financiele middelen effectief met social media marketing om te gaan. U leert ook hoe u zich op basis hiervan succesvol van anderen kunt onderscheiden en meer business kunt genereren.  Deze unieke masterclass wordt op 2 december a.s. op de volgende locatie verzorgd: Golden Tulip Hotel te Den Bosch. Aanvang: 9.00 uur. Sluiting: 17.00 uur. Investering: € 795,- (EXCL BTW), incl. handout , gesigneerd boek `<em>Personal branding; leiderschap vanuit authenticiteit</em>&#8220;, lunch. Aanmelding uiterlijk 20 september a.s. via tpsi@comcast.net. Voor meer informatie, click op <a href="http://pbuniversity.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/build-your-business-with-authentic-personal-branding-social-media-marketing/">link</a>.</p>
<p>Dit artikel is gebaseerd op het nieuwste boek van dr.ir. Hubert Rampersad, getiteld “<em>Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit</em>” (uitgeverij Quist, Leidschendam)<em>. </em>Hij is president van Personal Branding University in Amerika en partner bij TPS Benelux BV in Nederland. Hij is te bereiken via <a href="mailto:h.rampersad@tps-international.com">h.rampersad@tps-international.com</a> en <a href="http://www.personalbranding-university.com/">www.personalbranding-university.com</a>. Klick op <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm">link</a> om zijn interview onlangs in BusinessWeek te lezen.</p>
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		<title>De financiele consequenties van passie en plezier op het werk</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ongemotiveerde medewerkers omvat een van de grootste kostenposten binnen organisaties. Het hieraan gerelateerde verlies wordt, op basis van onderzoek in 2006, voor Nederland geschat op 15 miljard euro per jaar. Dit heeft te maken met mentaal verzuim, stress en wantrouwen binnen de organisatie. Mentaal verzuim is aanwezig zijn op het werk maar niet innerlijk betrokken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=587&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://bit.ly/l2AUA"></a><a href="http://twitter.com/PBUniversity"></a>Ongemotiveerde medewerkers omvat een van de grootste kostenposten binnen organisaties. Het hieraan gerelateerde verlies wordt, op basis van onderzoek in 2006, voor Nederland geschat op 15 miljard euro per jaar. Dit heeft te maken met mentaal verzuim, stress en wantrouwen binnen de organisatie. Mentaal verzuim is aanwezig zijn op het werk maar niet innerlijk betrokken zijn vanwege een gebrek aan passie en zingeving en daardoor niet optimaal functioneren. Enkele feiten op een rij, op basis van onderzoek in Nederland in 2004-2006:</p>
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<li>Een organisatie met honderd medewerkers, met 25% mentaal verzuim, heeft een schadepost als gevolg van mentaal verzuim van minimaal 2,5 miljoen euro per jaar (NRC);</li>
<li>60 tot 80% van alle ziekteverzuim heeft niets te maken met ziekte, maar met demotivatie, gebrek aan plezier en innerlijke betrokkenheid (NRC);</li>
<li>Medewerkers geven aan dat 10 tot 15% van hun capaciteit onbenut blijft (NRC). Ze besteden veel tijd aan dagdromen, uit het raam staren, roddelen en kletsen met collega’s, computerspelletjes op internet, koffie drinken, ruzie maken, etc.;</li>
<li>De maatschappelijke kosten veroorzaakt door psychische problemen op het werk, worden op 4,7 miljard euro per jaar geschat (Instituut voor Werk en Stress);</li>
<li>Verzekeraars ramen de kosten van ziekteverzuim door stress op 3 tot 6 miljard euro (PWnet);</li>
<li>Slecht functionerende medewerkers kosten Nederland ongeveer 7 miljard euro per jaar (SHL);</li>
<li>Een manager besteedt gemiddeld 30% van zijn tijd aan het oplossen van conflicten. TNO Arbeid becijferde in 2004 dat jaarlijks zestig tot honderdduizend mensen zich ziek melden wegens een conflict;</li>
<li>Tweederde van alle functioneringsproblemen is te wijten aan een verstoorde verhouding tussen werknemers. Gemiddeld 10% van de loonkosten is hieraan te wijten.</li>
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<p> De cijfers in de VS zijn schrikbarender. Zo zijn er volgens Gallup 22 miljoen actieve ongemotiveerde en ongepasioneerde medewerkers in Amerika (Gallup Poll, 2005). Hun ontevredenheid kenmerkt zich door afwezigheid, ziekte en een verscheidenheid aan andere grote en kleine problemen die zich voordoen wanneer mensen ongelukkig zijn op hun werk. Het onderzoek van Gallup toont aan dat ongelukkige medewerkers het Amerikaanse bedrijfsleven jaarlijks tot 350 miljard USD kosten als gevolg van verlies aan hieraan gerelateerde arbeidsproductiviteit. De werkelijke financiele schade is vele malen groter, zie verderop. Ook toont het onderzoek aan dat de opbrengsten per aandeel 2,6 maal toenemen wanneer medewerkers gemotiveerd en innerlijk betrokken zijn. Een recent onderzoek van Gallup toont aan dat 70% van de Amerikaanse medewerkers niet innerlijk betrokken is bij zijn werk. Ongemotiveerde medewerkers ofwel medewerkers die niet innerlijk betrokken zijn bij hun werk (<em>e</em><em>mployee disengagement</em>) vormen een wereldwijde epidemie. Volgens de laatste Gallup onderzoeksresultaten:</p>
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<li>61% van de Britse werkgemeenschap, 67% van de Japanse werkgemeenschap en een schokkende 82% van de werkgemeenschap in Singapore is niet innerlijk betrokken;</li>
<li>Ongemotiveerde medewerkers kosten Singapore $ 4,9 miljard; de werkgemeenschap van het land is momenteel een van de meest ongemotiveerde ter wereld;</li>
<li>20% van de Australische medewerkers is actief ongemotiveerd op het werk en dit kost de economie ongeveer $ 31,5 miljard per jaar; uit het onderzoek onder 1,500 Australische medewerkers bleek dat slechts 18% innerlijk betrokken is bij het werk;</li>
<li>In Europa is het percentage gemotiveerde medewerkers minder dan 20%;</li>
<li>De motivatie van het personeel is het hoogst in Brazilië (31%) en Mexico (40%). De laagste niveaus zijn gemeten in Azië.</li>
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<p>Daarnaast heeft een recent Conference Board onderzoek aangetoond dat 53% van de Amerikaanse medewerkers ongelukkig is op zijn werk. In zeven landen (UK, VS, Zweden, Nederland, India, Hong Kong en Australië) heeft SHL, de wereldleider in psychometrische assessmenttechnieken, honderden managers gevraagd hoeveel tijd zij besteden aan het managen van matig presterende medewerkers. In dit onderzoek uit 2004 bleek dat de kosten van matige prestaties als gevolg van ongemotiveerde medewerkers in de UK ongeveer $ 35 miljard zijn. Nieuw onderzoek toont aan dat matige prestaties van ongemotiveerde medewerkers collega’s kunnen besmetten en de moraal van de volledige organisatie omlaag kunnen brengen. Van de ongeveer 35000 medewerkers die onderzocht zijn in dit onderzoek, denkt 33% van de managers en 43% van de niet-managers dat hun organisatie matig presterende medewerkers niet op de juiste manier aanpakt. Dit heeft een enorme negatieve invloed op de arbeidsproductiviteit, volgens David Sirota. ‘<em>Het heeft te maken met het gefrustreerd raken door collega’s. Dit is het resultaat van mismanagement. Medewerkers willen graag dat het management meer gefocust is op prestaties. Als een medewerker matig presteert is dit een afbraak aan de prestaties van iedereen in de organisatie</em>.’ De arbeidsproductiviteit neemt toe wanneer organisaties matige prestaties bespreekbaar maken. Volgens Sirota onderzoek (Salary.Com Research) zegt 73% van de medewerkers waar de organisatie actief matige presteerders aanspreekt dat zij positief betrokken is bij het werk. Om voordeel op te doen van al deze bevindingen moeten organisaties aan matig presterende medewerkers duidelijk kenbaar maken welke prestaties van hen worden verwacht, hun ambitie/brand met de organisatieambitie/brand afstemmen en hen laten gaan wanneer zij ondanks coaching niet verbeteren.</p>
<p>Het afstemmen van de persoonlijke ambitie/brand op de organisatieambitie/brand gaat om het bereiken van een hoger niveau van compatibiliteit tussen persoonlijke en organisatiedoelen en wederzijdse waardetoevoeging. Uit een onderzoek van CO2 Partners (2007) blijk dat bij 30% van de Amerikaanse medewerkers sprake is van een mismatch met hun organisatie:</p>
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<li>Een op de drie Amerikaanse medewerkers gaf aan dat de ambitie van zijn organisatie niet in lijn is met de eigen ambitie;</li>
<li>44% zei dat hun ambitie wel in lijn is met die van de organisatie.</li>
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<p>Uit een ander onderzoek van Towers Perrin (2005) blijkt dat de meeste Amerikaanse organisaties en P&amp;O afdelingen de nadruk leggen op het zo snel mogelijk simpelweg invullen van vacatures, in plaats van het matchen van de juiste medewerker met de juiste positie. Als gevolg hiervan verliezen veel Amerikaanse organisaties net zo snel geld als dat ze medewerkers verliezen.</p>
<p>Het is daarom van groot belang geworden om de optimale balans te vinden tussen de persoonlijke ambitie/brand en de organisatieambitie/brand om de arbeidsproductiviteit te vergroten en innerlijke betrokkenheid, toewijding, plezier en passie op het werk te stimuleren. Dit heeft te maken met het bereiken van een hogere graad van compatibiliteit tussen persoonlijke doelen en organisatiedoelen en wederzijdse waardetoevoeging. Mensen werken namlijk niet met toewijding en geven geen energie aan iets waar zij niet in geloven of het niet mee eens zijn. Helderheid en uniformiteit van persoonlijke en organisatiewaarden en principes zijn daarom essentieel voor de actieve betrokkenheid van medewerkers. Onderzoek toont aan dat wanneer een individu input heeft met betrekking tot de gemeenschappelijke ambitie die zijn of haar werk beïnvloedt, deze persoon meer gemotiveerd en ontvankelijk voor organisatieverandering zal zijn. Ervaring leert ons dat identificatie met de organisatie het belangrijkste motief is voor medewerkers om zichzelf actief toe te wijden aan de organisatiedoelen en om hun eigen potentieel te verhogen. Medewerkers willen vaak graag toegewijd samenwerken in de richting van de doelen van de organisatie wanneer er samenhang is tussen hun persoonlijke ambitie en de organisatieambitie. Iedereen heeft verschillende persoonlijke waarden en principes die we moeten proberen te begrijpen en linken aan de organisatiewaarden. De ervaring met het toepassen van het persoonlijk en corporatebrandingconcept heeft aangetoond dat de meeste medewerkers gelukkig en tevreden willen zijn op hun werk; dat zij er echt van genieten naar het werk te gaan; dat zij streven naar een balans tussen werk en privé en dat zij zich 100% willen inzetten voor de organisatie. Een onderzoek van Towers Perrin (2005) vond dat terwijl medewerkers graag meer willen bijdragen op hun werk, het gedrag van hun managers en de cultuur van de organisatie hen actief ontmoedigen om dit te doen. Dit geeft aan dat er binnen organisaties een grote reserve aan onbenutte <em>medewerkerprestatie potentieel</em> is dat tot betere financiële resultaten zou kunnen leiden wanneer organisaties hieruit zouden putten. Denk aan wat Peter Drucker zei: ‘<em>Veel van wat wij management noemen bestaat uit het moeilijker maken voor medewerkers om te werken</em>’.</p>
<p><strong>Hoe balans tussen persoonlijke ambitie/personal brand en organisatieambitie/corporate brand te creëren </strong></p>
<p>Het is aan te raden om managers en medewerkers aan te moedigen hun persoonlijke ambitie/brand te formuleren en hen te laten reflecteren op de balans tussen hun eigen ambitie/personal brand en de organisatieambitie/corporate brand. Ik stel daarom voor om een ambitiegesprek binnen de organisatie in te voeren, tussen de lijnmanager of leidinggevende en zijn of haar medewerkers, conform Rampersad (2008). Het ambitiegesprek is een periodiek, informeel, vrijwillig en vertrouwelijk gesprek tussen de lijnmanager en zijn of haar medewerkers dat maximaal één uur duurt, en waarbij de persoonlijke ambitie/brand van de medewerker en de organisatieambitie/brand het onderwerp zijn. Waarom informeel? Omdat men meer zal leren van informele dan van formele gesprekken. Het is aan te raden het gesprek structureel minimaal eens in de twee maanden te houden, bij voorkeur vaker. De uitkomsten van deze informele gesprekken zijn zeer vertrouwelijk, moeten uit de personele dossiers gehouden worden en mogen niet tegen de medewerkers gebruikt worden. De lijnmanager of de leidinggevende speelt een cruciale rol in het welzijn en de innerlijke betrokkenheid van de medewerkers. Hij of zij moet in dit proces optreden als een vertrouwenspersoon, informele coach en rolmodel. Waarom als een vertrouwenspersoon? Omdat er geen leren en delen plaats zal vinden wanneer er wantrouwen en angst heerst. Om in staat te zijn te spreken over de persoonlijke ambitie/brand van de medewerker heeft men een vertrouwelijke, informele en vriendelijke sfeer nodig, een sfeer van vertrouwen en open communicatie. Dit is essentieel omdat menselijke waarden worden besproken. De ervaring leert dat een vertrouwensrelatie gecreëerd kan worden wanneer de manager van te voren zijn of haar persoonlijke ambitie/brand formuleert en deze deelt met de medewerkers. De implementatie van de persoonlijke ambitie/brand van de betreffende medewerker komt hierbij ter discussie, en dit bevat zowel privézaken als werkgerelateerde aspecten; tenminste die privézaken die een invloed hebben op de prestatie op het werk en die de medewerker wenst te delen met zijn/haar manager. Tijdens het afstemmingsproces moet de manager zich gedragen als een betrouwbare en informele coach en sociale ondersteuning bieden aan de medewerkers door een goede luisteraar te zijn, hulp te bieden en iemand te zijn waar de medewerkers op kunnen vertrouwen.</p>
<p>Het ambitiegesprek zal u helpen helder te krijgen of uw persoonlijke ambitie/brand in harmonie is met de organisatieambitie/brand en waar zij met elkaar botsen. Het bepaalt in welke mate de ambitie/brand van uw organisatie overeenstemt met uw eigen ambitie/brand. De lijnmanager kan een keuze maken uit de volgende ambitievragen die hij of zij kan gebruiken tijdens het ambitiegesprek:</p>
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<li>Sluit uw persoonlijke ambitie/brand aan op de organisatieambitie/brand? Waar zitten zij op een lijn en waar spreken zij elkaar tegen? Kunt u zich hiermee vereenzelvigen? Voelt u zich hierdoor persoonlijk betrokken en aangesproken? Kunt u zich identificeren met de organisatieambitie/brand?</li>
<li>Is uw persoonlijke ambitie/brand terug te vinden in de organisatieambitie/brand? Zo nee, moeten ze worden uitgebreid of aangepast? Zijn ze acceptabel? Hoe kunnen ze in de organisatie tot bloei komen?</li>
<li>Moet uw ambitieniveau of die van de organisatie misschien omlaag worden geschroefd?</li>
<li>Passen uw innerlijke waarden bij de kernwaarden van de organisatie? Komen uw belangrijkste persoonlijke waarden hierin tot hun recht? Welke zijn de versterkende en tegenstrijdige punten in uw persoonlijke ambitie/brand t.o.v. de organisatie ambitie/brand? Welke zijn onderbelicht?</li>
<li>Bestaat er een win-winsituatie tussen uw eigen belangen en die van de organisatie?</li>
<li>Welke vaardigheden heeft u nodig om een steunpilaar voor de organisatie te zijn en hierdoor de organisatieambitie/brand te verwezenlijken? Wat wilt u hiertoe zelf bereiken?</li>
<li>Zijn uw ontwikkelingsverwachtingen en die van de organisatie op elkaar afgestemd?</li>
<li>Wat motiveert u? Wat demotiveert u? Wat zorgt ervoor dat u lekker in uw vel zit op uw werk?</li>
<li>Bent u er trots op voor deze organisatie te werken?</li>
<li>Welke bijdrage probeert u te leveren aan de realisatie van de organisatieambitie/brand? Waar streeft u naar? Wat zijn uw zorgen?</li>
<li>Heeft u overwogen om een andere baan te zoeken?</li>
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<p>Verwacht geen perfecte match of overeenstemming, maar hoe meer overeenstemming hoe beter. U moet op basis van de resultaten van dit afstemmingsproces besluiten of u blijft en worstelt of vertrekt. Wanneer uw ambitie/brand helemaal niet overeenkomt met de organisatieambitie/brand en dit waarschijnlijk ook nooit zo zal worden, is het vinden van een andere baan waar er een betere overeenstemming is de beste optie. Enkelen van mijn klanten besloten naar een andere baan te gaan zoeken nadat zij ontdekten dat hun ambitie/brand niet goed overeenkwam met de ambitie/brand van de organisatie waar ze werkten. Dit voorkwam stress en burnout. Soms is dit de beste oplossing voor zowel u als voor de organisatie.</p>
<p>Zoals gezegd heeft het afstemmingsproces ook een belangrijke invloed op het niveau van stress en burnout op het werk. De International Labour Organization (ILO) definieert organisatiestress als ‘<em>schadelijke lichamelijke en geestelijke reacties die zich voordoen wanneer de functievereisten niet overeenkomen met de vaardigheden, middelen en behoeften van medewerkers</em>’. Burnout is een lichamelijke, mentale en emotionele reactie op constante hoge niveaus van stress. Het zorgt voor gevoelens van hopeloosheid, machteloosheid, cynisme, wrok en falen – en voor stagnatie en aflopende arbeidsproductiviteit. Onderzoek toont aan dat het niveau van stress bij medewerkers kan toenemen wanneer zij een gespannen relatie hebben met hun manager of collega’s. Organisaties die de verbanden tussen medewerkerstress en gezondheid begrijpen kunnen hun medewerkers helpen stress te managen en balans in hun werk en privé te vinden. Wanneer zij dit doen zal de arbeidsproductiviteit en motivatie toenemen (<em>Gallup Management Journal</em>, 2005). De persoonlijke BSC is een uitstekend instrument voor het vinden van balans tussen uw werk en privé en om stress en burnout te verminderen. De invloed van stress en burnout is groot. Volgens het <em>National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health</em> (1983):</p>
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<li>Stress staat in relatie met lichamelijke en geestelijke gezondheid en afnemende bereidheid om nieuwe en creatieve dingen te doen;</li>
<li>Burnout op het werk wordt door 25% tot 40% van de Amerikaanse medewerkers ervaren;</li>
<li>Stress heeft een enorme negatieve invloed op de arbeidsproductiviteit;</li>
<li>Depressie, slechts een van de reacties op stress, is verantwoordelijk voor meer verloren dagen dan welke andere factor;</li>
<li>$ 300 miljard, of $ 7.500,00 per medewerker, wordt uitgegeven aan stressgerelateerde compensatieclaims, afgenomen productiviteit, ziekteverzuim, mentaal verzuim, gezondheidsclaims en directe medische uitgaven (bijna 50% meer voor medewerkers die stresssymptomen aangeven).</li>
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<p>Volksgezondheidonderzoekers aan de University College London geven aan dat een gelukkige geestesstaat kan leiden tot een gezonder hart en lagere niveaus van stressopwekkende chemicaliën. Zij vonden dat mensen die meer momenten van geluk verspreid over een dag hebben, minder schadelijke chemicaliën als <em>cortisol</em> produceren en hierdoor waarschijnlijk op de lange termijn gezonder zijn en minder aan hartziekten zullen lijden. Sommige leidinggevenden en managers creëren wantrouwen en angst binnen de organisatie, in plaats van plezier, passie en geluk. Zij hebben een enorme destructieve invloed op de gezondheid van de mensen en organisatie, en echt leren wordt niet gestimuleerd in een sfeer van wantrouwen en angst. Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat meer dan de helft van de medewerkers in Europa wel eens van baan gewisseld is vanwege het gedrag van de manager. In andere woorden: mismanagement is de reden voor de slechte prestaties op hun werk. U verdrijft angst uit uw organisatie door het ambitiegesprek tussen lijnmanager en medewerker te introduceren. Op deze manier geeft de lijnmanager de medewerkers het gevoel dat ze er toe doen en dat zij als mensen gewaardeerd worden. Als gevolg hiervan creëren zij een sterke basis voor vertrouwen waarop creativiteit en groei kan bloeien. Ralph Waldo Emerson zei: ‘<em>Vertrouw mensen en ze zullen waar naar u zijn; behandel hen groots en zij zullen groots zijn</em>.’ Volgens Simon Dolan (2007): ‘<em>Wanneer anderen ons vertrouwen en ons de vrijheid geven te handelen, zal ons zelfrespect toenemen en zullen we productiever worden. Dit is de basis voor empowerment… Mensen met zelfrespect ervaren zichzelf beter, zij zijn en voelen zich levend, zij zijn meer bereid verder te reiken en voor anderen te zorgen. Ze maken makkelijk inter-persoonlijke relaties, zij voelen zich niet alleen, zij managen hun leven met gemak en staan ontspannen tegenover hun eigen lot, tegenover hun eigen geluk</em>.’</p>
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<p>Het besproken afstemmingsproces is een mogelijkheid om warmte, plezier, passie, toewijding, zelfsturing en motivatie te creëren, wat vaak nog ontbreekt. Het management heeft twee mogelijkheden om motivatie te belonen: extrinsiek (zoals salaris, geld) en intrinsiek (bijvoorbeeld erkenning, waardering en lof). Intrinsieke motivatie is plezierig voor jezelf, extrinsieke motivatie is dit niet. Intrinsieke motivatie komt van binnenuit, door iets te doen waar je van geniet, terwijl extrinsieke motivatie betekent dat mensen een beloning zoeken, zoals geld. Geld heeft zijn invloed op medewerkermotivatie verloren, omdat het een korte termijn <em>incentive</em> is. Daarom moeten organisaties medewerkers ook intrinsiek belonen. Een klimaat van leren, uitdagingen, plezier, geluk, vertrouwen, creativiteit, zelfontwikkeling, respect en innerlijke betrokkenheid is vaak belangrijker voor medewerkers dan salaris. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly verrichtte een grootschalig onderzoek in de Verenigde Staten over ontevredenheid bij medewerkers. Er werd gevonden dat medewerkers drie belangrijke redenen noemden om ontevreden te zijn op hun werk. Deze redenen hadden te maken met de kwaliteit van de ervaringen op het werk, en niet met salaris en andere materiële zaken. De eerste en belangrijkste reden was het ontbreken van variatie en uitdagingen (saai en betekenisloos). De tweede reden ging over de conflicten met andere mensen op het werk, voornamelijk met leidinggevenden. Het conflict komt vaak voort uit de defensieve houding van iemand, wat een resultaat is van angst of falen. De derde reden heeft te maken met uitputting (vooral bij managers); te druk, te veel stress, te veel spanning, te weinig tijd voor henzelf, onvoldoende balans tussen werk en privéleven en familieproblemen.</p>
<p>Het stimuleren van medewerkers en het plezieriger maken van het werk zijn de veranderingen die managers moeten creëren om medewerkers te motiveren, wiens ideeën over werk de laatste tien jaar radicaal zijn verschoven. Dit kan als volgt worden gerealiseerd (Rampersad, 2008): formuleer uw persoonlijke ambitie, personal brand en persoonlijke balanced scorecard, implementeer deze conform de PDAC-cyclus, en breng uzelf op een lijn met uw organisatie. Op basis hiervan zult u ook in staat zijn prioriteiten te stellen en uw vrije tijd op een meer gestructureerde wijze effectief te managen, zodat u thuis van optimale ervaringen en nieuwe uitdagingen kunt genieten. Dit zal u ook helpen bij uw hobby’s, welke specifieke vaardigheden, gedrag en innerlijke discipline vereisen. Robert Park, de prominente Amerikaanse socioloog zei zestig jaar geleden: ‘<em>Ik vermoed dat de grootste verspilling van Amerikaans leven voortvloeit uit het verspillen van onze vrije tijd</em>.’ In relatie hiermee volgen hier enkele belangrijke uitspraken van Mihaly Csikszentmihaly: ‘<em>Samen verspillen we het equivalent van miljoenen jaren van menselijk bewustzijn. De energie die gebruikt kan worden voor concentratie op complexe doelen, persoonlijke groei en het goed voelen, wordt opgelost in acties die niet meer doen dan de werkelijkheid imiteren… Mensen die leren te genieten van hun werk en hun vrije tijd op de juiste wijze gebruiken, hebben vaak het idee dat hun leven waardevoller is geworden. De toekomst is niet alleen voor de geleerde persoon, maar ook voor de persoon die zijn vrije tijd effectief heeft leren gebruiken</em>.’</p>
<p>Waardevolle energie wordt verspild aan het besteden van tijd aan activiteiten die geen waarde creëren en aan dagdromen. Er zijn vele belangrijke en leuke dingen te doen in het leven. De uitdaging is om tijd te respecteren, zodat we een voller en bevredigender leven kunnen leiden. Volgens Robin Sharma: ‘<em>Echt geluk komt slechts uit één ding voort: realisatie van doelen, of deze nu persoonlijk, professioneel of anders zijn. U bent het gelukkigst wanneer u voelt dat u groeit. Wanneer u voelt dat u bijdraagt en voortgaat in de richting van uw dromen, zult u merken dat u een grenzeloze energie en vitaliteit bezit. Tijd die besteed wordt aan activiteiten die weinig bieden afgezien van een tijdelijk gevoel van ontspanning (kijken naar de televisie is hier het beste voorbeeld van) is tijd die voor altijd verloren is. Ontspanning is essentieel, maar kies wel voor de meest effectieve manier van vernieuwing en besteed uw tijd aan productieve zaken die u langzaam zullen leiden over het pad van bekwaamheid. Geluk komt van doen, niet van slapen</em>.’ Denk ook aan wat Charles Darwin zei: ‘<em>Iedereen die het lef heeft een uur van het leven te verspillen heeft de waarde van het leven niet ontdekt</em>.’</p>
<p>Veel van de bovengenoemde vrijetijdsactiviteiten zijn vaak niet uitdagend en leiden niet tot een optimale <em>flow</em>-ervaring, omdat de uitdagingen en vaardigheden die hiervoor nodig zijn niet altijd op een hoog niveau zitten. Kansen om gelukkiger, vrolijker en meer tevreden te zijn en persoonlijke groei in de vrije tijd te stimuleren worden vaak gemist bij deze activiteiten. Een balans tussen werk en privé is een belangrijk item dat werkgevers moeten bieden om talent te houden en te ontwikkelen. Veel organisaties in Noord-Amerika en Europa zijn succesvol in het medewerkers toestaan hun eigen diensten in te roosteren, zodat zij in staat zijn familieafspraken na te komen. Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat een van de redenen waarom partners uit elkaar gaan is dat ze te veel tijd besteedden aan hun carrière . Mensen willen nu meer tijd voor zichzelf en hun kinderen. Volgens US Census data werkte een gemiddelde man 43,5 uur per week in 1970 en 43,1 uur per week in 2000, en de gemiddelde vrouw 37,1 uur in 1970 en 37,0 uur in 2000. De personal BSC (Rampersad, 208) kan u helpen een stabiele basis voor een goede balans tussen werk en privé te creëren. Het helpt u ook bij het leggen van prioriteiten in uw leven en uzelf en uw tijd effectief te managen.</p>
<p> Uit onderzoek van Mihaly Csikszentmihaly blijkt dat de gemiddelde Amerikaan 10% van zijn werkuren besteedt aan niet-relevante zaken, als dagdromen en roddelen met collega’s. In sommige gevallen is dit zelfs 25% van de werkuren. Een meer recent onderzoek, van America Online en Salary.com, vond dat de gemiddelde Amerikaanse medewerker meer dan twee uur per dag verspilt, en hier wordt de lunch niet bij opgeteld. <strong><em>Dit betekent dat organisaties jaarlijks ongeveer $ 759 miljard uitgeven aan salarissen waarzij geen duidelijk voordeel uit op doen.</em></strong> Amerikanen die zich vervelen en onderbetaald worden werken wel hard, zij surfen namelijk op internet en roddelen met collega’s volgens het recente onderzoek van Salary.com (2007). Uit dit onderzoek blijkt dat Amerikaanse medewerkers ongeveer 20% van hun werkdag verspillen. Het online onderzoek onder 2.057 medewerkers bij de online compensatieorganisatie wees uit dat ongeveer zes van de tien medewerkers toegeeft tijd te verspillen op het werk, waarbij de gemiddelde medewerker 1,7 uur van de normale 8,5 uur verspilt. Volgens Bill Coleman, chief compensation officer bij Salary.com: ‘<em>Terwijl een zekere hoeveelheid aan verspilde tijd is ingebouwd in de salarisstructuren van de organisatie, geeft dit onderzoek toch aan dat organisaties met een uitgedaagde en gemotiveerde werkgemeenschap meer productiviteit hiervoor terug kunnen verwachten</em>’.</p>
<p> Om voordeel op te doen van deze bevindingen moeten leidinggevenden het voorgestelde ambitiegesprek introduceren en medewerkers helpen de kwaliteit van hun leven te verbeteren, niet alleen op het werk, maar ook in hun vrije tijd, op basis van de gepresenteerde methoden en technieken (Rampersad, 2008). Dit zal medewerkers aanmoedigen zich constant vrij en veilig te voelen en in staat te zijn grotere uitdagingen op te pakken, en hierdoor passie en plezier in het werk te krijgen en welzijn en geluk te ervaren.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p><a href="http://bit.ly/l2AUA"></a>De meeste koopbeslissingen zijn gebaseerd op vertrouwen, emoties en percepties die een bepaalde naam of een bepaald product bij mensen creëren. Dit heeft met branding te maken. Branding is de verwachting, perceptie, emoties, vertrouwen en gevoel van verbondenheid bij mensen indien ze een betreffende naam horen of een product of logo zien. Bijvoorbeeld Microsoft, Nike, Toyota, Volvo, en Coke communiceren niet wat ze zijn, maar wat onze perceptie van hun producten moet zijn en wat we van ze kunnen verwachten. Bijvoorbeeld, als ik Volvo noem, dan denken de meeste mensen aan veilige en betrouwbare auto’s. Het blijkt dat branding veel belangrijker is dan marketing en sales. Marketing is <em>presenteren</em> van uw product en hierdoor bewustwording hiervoor creëren (klanten laten weten dat uw product bestaat). Sales is anderen op basis van uw vaardigheden <em>overtuigen</em> dat uw product het allerbeste product is. Branding echter is <em>beïnvloeding </em>van anderen op basis van een sterke brand identiteit en hierdoor hun perceptie en emoties beïnvloeden. Dus: stop met marketing en sales, focus voortaan op branding.   </p>
<p><em> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Personal-Branding-Blueprint-Leadership/dp/1607520990/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1242597283&amp;sr=1-6"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-581" title="Nederlands PB book" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/nederlands-pb-book.jpg?w=300&#038;h=424" alt="Nederlands PB book" width="300" height="424" /></a></em></p>
<p>Het blijkt dat branding niet alleen op producten c.q. bedrijven van toepassing is maar vooral ook op mensen<em>.</em> Personal branding werkt namelijk op dezelfde manier als bij bedrijven, namelijk: gepassioneerd aan anderen laten blijken wat u uniek, anders, speciaal maakt en op basis hiervan een positieve emotionele response proberen te krijgen. U bent ook een merk. Iedereen heeft een eigen merk. Definieer wat uw merk is, wat u uniek maakt en waar u in relatie met anderen echt goed in bent. Doet u dit niet dan zullen anderen dit voor u doen en u “branden”, met alle gevolgen van dien. Geef uw brand niet uit handen. Wees CEO van uw eigen brand en leven. Definieer uw eigen brand en beïnvloed en manage de perceptie die anderen over u hebben. U kunt een consistente, herkenbare en authentieke persoonlijke brand zijn door uw sterkten en zwakten, persoonlijkheid, ethische waarden, en unieke talenten te definiëren, deze continu te cultiveren en eenduidig en gepassioneerd uit te dragen, voortdurend conform uw brand te handelen, uzelf continu te verbeteren en hieraan gerelateerd werk met liefde te doen. Het vraagt onder meer om zelfkennis, vertrouwen in eigen kunnen, durf, creativiteit, passie, integriteit, love en gedrevenheid. Denk wat de Amerikaanse branding guru Tom Peters heeft gezegd: “<em>Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are the CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc…. To be in business today, our most important job is to be the head marketer for the brand called “You”…… You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand&#8230; You need to think of yourself differently. You&#8217;re not an &#8220;employee&#8221;, you don&#8217;t &#8220;belong to&#8221; any company for life, you’re not defined by your job title and you’re not confined by your job description……. Being CEO of Me Inc. requires you to grow yourself, to promote yourself, to get the market to reward yourself</em>”.</p>
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<p>Uw personal brand is uw belangrijkste bezit in het huidige online, virtule en individuele tijdperk. Personal branding is dé manier om u van anderen te onderscheiden en de sleutel om succesvol te zijn. Het is een strategie die toegepast wordt door succesvolle mensen zoals Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Donald Trump, Richard Branson en Bill Gates. Zoals uit het voorgaande blijkt is uw brand de perceptie over u in het hoofd van een ander indien deze uw naam hoort of u ziet. </p>
<p>Dit artikel is gebaseerd op het nieuwste boek van Hubert Rampersad, getiteld “<em>Personal Branding, leiderschap vanuit Authenticiteit</em>” (uitgeverij Quist, Leidschendam) dat inmiddels in 20 talen is vertaald<em>. </em>Hij is partner bij TPS Consulting Netherlands BV te Rotterdam en te bereiken via <a href="mailto:h.rampersad@tps-international.com">h.rampersad@tps-international.com</a> en <a href="http://www.total-performance-scorecard.com/">www.Total-Performance-Scorecard.com</a>. Zijn Blog is:rampersad.wordpress.com</p>
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		<title>Dr. Rampersad’s Authentic Personal Branding concept in Social Media Marketing Class at University of California, Los Angeles</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Personal Branding in Social Media Marketing Class at UCLA  http://bit.ly/2LShUB

By: Beverly Macy on June 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 am 

As many of you know, I teach Social Media Marketing for the UCLA Extension.  I launched the class in the fall of 2008, and we’re in the middle of the Spring 2009 semester.  We have 72 people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=521&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<li>By: <a title="http://personalbrandingblog.com/author/bmacy/ Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen" href="http://personalbrandingblog.com/author/bmacy/">Beverly Macy</a> on <abbr title="2009-06-02">June 2nd, 2009 at 5:15 am</abbr> </li>
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<p>As many of you know, I teach <a href="http://www.uclaextension.edu/">Social Media Marketing for the UCLA Extension</a>.  I launched the class in the fall of 2008, and we’re in the middle of the Spring 2009 semester.  We have 72 people enrolled in the class.  Since the Extension focuses on adult education, the class is a perfect representation of the business community in Greater Los Angeles &#8211; insurance, health care, entertainment, small business, public relations, advertising, aerospace, etc.</p>
<h3><strong>Learning about personal branding</strong></h3>
<p>And the people who attend are in mid &#8211; to &#8211; senior level positions.  They want to know more about social media &#8211; how it works, what it means, what the benefits are, etc. It’s a great class this time!  Very lively.  And last week Rodney Rumford (@rumford) discussed Twitter and the class loved it. Personal branding is a hot topic with this class as well, as it continues to be a fascinating topic for many business people<strong>.</strong> Especially with the economic turn down, I think workers are realizing that they need to be their own best advocate. However, I continue to sense a generational difference in accepting the concept of <a href="http://personalbrandingmag.com/" target="_blank">personal branding</a><strong>.</strong> Those who have been in the workforce longer still seem resistant and view personal branding as bragging.  Newer workers seem a little more open to the concept of becoming your own best advocate.</p>
<blockquote><p>Bottom line, I’m incorporating a session on personal branding into the course for two reasons:  No one is exempt from the possibility of having to look for a new job; and I want to offer some resources I think will help clear things up for the class.  In this social and online world, everyone now has a digital presence &#8211; whether they realize it or not.</p></blockquote>
<h3><strong>Brand Authenticity</strong></h3>
<p>I’m a BIG advocate of brand authenticity &#8211; both for the personal and business brand.  To that end, I’ve pretty much agreed with what <a href="http://www.brandchannel.com/papers_review.asp?sp_id=1360">Dr. Hubert Rampersad has to say in his white paper: Authentic Personal Branding</a>. Here’s a brief excerpt &#8211; I’ve also included his Personal Branding Framework as well.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Everyone has a Personal Brand but most people are not aware of this and do not manage this strategically, consistently, and effectively. You should take control of your brand and the message it sends and affect how others perceive you.</em></p>
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<p align="center"><em><a href="http://bit.ly/A0mOj">Authentic Personal Branding Framework (© Hubert Rampersad)</a></em></p>
<p><em>This proven authentic Personal Branding model entails a systematic and integrated voyage towards self-awareness, happiness, and enduring marketing success. A way of life in conformity with this system is a journey into the inner self, where your genius, values, hopes, dreams and aspirations lie quietly waiting to be discovered. The related practical tools will guide you to implement, maintain, and cultivate your brand effectively, articulate your brand with love and passion, improve your perceived value in the marketplace, become an expert in your field, and build credibility and a solid reputation within your industry. This innovative personal branding approach will allow you to view your life objectively and authentically and provides a road map to translate your genius, dreams and aspirations into manageable and measurable milestones and improvement actions.</em></p>
<p>We’ll cover this in the class in two weeks and I will be recommending a number of resources, including <a href="http://twitter.com/PBUniversity">Dr. Rampersad’s.</a></p>
<p><strong>Author:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><em>Beverly Macy is the Managing Partner of <a href="http://www.ympartnersllc.blogspot.com/"><span style="color:#257188;">Y&amp;M Partners</span></a> and teaches a social media class at the UCLA Extension.  She also co-hosts <a href="http://www/gravitysummit.com"><span style="color:#257188;">Gravity Summit </span></a>events and provides personal branding coaching.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Response to “Personal Branding in Social Media Marketing Class at UCLA”</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://helisirkia.kotisivukone.com/"><span style="color:#6c6c6c;">Heli Sirkiä</span></a> <span>says:</span>  <a href="http://personalbrandingblog.com/personal-branding-in-social-media-marketing-class-at-ucla/comment-page-1/#comment-21456"><em><span style="color:#6c6c6c;">June 2, 2009 at 11:15 pm</span></em></a></span></p>
<p><em>Thank you Beverly!</em></p>
<p><em>This was such a great post! I was happy to read your comments on how there seems to be a generation gap in people’s reaction to personal branding &#8211; because ‘bragging’ is exactly how personal branding is often perceived in my country as well. I thought it was a cultural issue, that self promotion is not typical or easy to Finns (especially among older generation). Understanding that it is a global generation issue makes it easier to tackle. </em><em>Dr. Rampersad’s framework is excellent! I was very impressed by his previous work “Total Balance Scorecard” that takes into account both total quality management and HR perspective. The piece was translated into Finnish by the <a href="http://www.laatukeskus.fi/default.asp?docId=39902">Finnish Center of Excllence (EFQM audits)</a> who spoke very highly of Dr. Rampersead. </em></p>
<p><em>In 1995 as an image consultant and fresh MBA I was wondering how to combine these two sides: strategic management and individual employees well being and work-life balance issues. </em><em>Authentic Personal Branding seems to be the answer. This way the personal values and corporate values can really match! Very challenging, but excellent framework for any business manager to think and lead strategically their HR assets! And of course a MUST for any entrepreneur or job seeker in this digital information age. </em></p>
<p><em>All the best! </em></p>
<p><em>Heli Sirkiä<br />
Helsinki, Finland</em></p>
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This book  offers an advanced breakthrough formula to build, implement, maintain, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, relevant, and memorable Personal and Corporate Brand, which forms the key to enduring personal and business success. The new Personal Branding blueprint entails a systematic and integrated journey towards self-awareness, happiness, and enduring marketing success. If you are branded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=433&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&amp;p=p49bebb1cdd589"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-438" title="us-edition_jpeg" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/us-edition_jpeg.jpg?w=500&#038;h=375" alt="us-edition_jpeg" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&amp;p=p49bebb1cdd589">This book </a> offers an advanced breakthrough formula to build, implement, maintain, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, relevant, and memorable Personal and Corporate Brand, which forms the key to enduring personal and business success. The new Personal Branding blueprint entails a systematic and integrated journey towards self-awareness, happiness, and enduring marketing success. If you are branded in this holistic way you will automatically attract success and the people and opportunities that are a perfect fit for you. Hubert Rampersad has introduced an advanced authentic Personal Branding model and practical related tools, that provide an excellent framework and roadmap for building a strong authentic Personal Brand, which is in harmony with your dreams, life purpose, values, genius, passion, and with things what you love doing. This new blueprint has been proven in practice to produce sustainable results, not only for individuals but also for companies. By aligning employee’s Personal Brand with their Corporate Brand you can realize the ‘best fit’ between employee and company, which creates a highly engaged and happy workforce.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/c7udjm">About the author</a></p>
<p>Foreword, <em>Marshall Goldsmith.</em> Preface. Author&#8217;s Profile. Introduction. <strong>PART 1: AUTHENTIC PERSONAL BRANDING.</strong> An Authentic Personal Branding Model. Define and Formulate Your Personal Ambition. Define and Formulate Your Personal Brand. Formulate Your Personal Balanced Scorecard. Implement and Cultivate Your Personal Ambition, Personal Brand, and Personal Balanced Scorecard. Aligning Your Personal Ambition and Personal Brand with Your Behavior and Actions: Alignment with Yourself. <strong>PART 2: AUTHENTIC COMPANY BRANDING.</strong> An Authentic Company Branding Model. Define and Formulate the Company Ambition. Define and Formulate the Company Brand. Formulate the Company Balanced Scorecard. Implement and Cultivate Your Company Ambition, Company Brand, and Company Balanced Scorecard. Aligning Personal Ambition and Personal Brand with Company Ambition and Company Brand: Alignment with Your Company. Epilogue. Afterword, <em>Dave Ulrich.</em> Appendecies: A Personal Ambition, Personal Brand, and Personal Balanced Scorecard Forms. B Authentic Personal Brand Coaching Framework and the Certified Personal Brand Coach (CPBC) Certification Program. C Personal BrandSoft. References and Recommended Reading. Index.</p>
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<p><strong>Advanced Praise for Authentic Personal Branding:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color:#800000;">From the book&#8217;s foreword by Marshall Goldsmith:</span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#000080;">“In Authentic Personal Branding, Hubert Rampersad has provided a sorely needed guidebook for knowledge workers. He shows us all how to build our own personal brand – and just as important – how to persuasively communicate this brand to the world&#8230; I love his focus on authenticity&#8230; My request to you, the reader, is – make this book part of your life. Don’t just read this book for its ‘interesting’ content. Don’t be content with a few ‘aha’ moments. Make it part of your life planning – and ultimately part of your life! If you do, you can become a more integrated and successful person – and better enable your company to help you make a positive difference in our world!” &#8211;</span></em> <strong>Marshall Goldsmith is Author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, a New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and the Harold Longman Award winner for Best Business Book of the Year for 2007. He is recognized by the American Management Association as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have impacted the field of management over the past 80 years.</strong></p>
<p> <span style="color:#800000;">From the Afterword by Dave Ulrich:</span></p>
<p><em><span style="color:#000080;">“Hubert Rampersad has a knack for preparing comprehensive frameworks for analyzing important issues&#8230; The four stage model that he suggests proposes an explicit way to turn a desired external identity into something concrete and actionable&#8230; It’s a wonderful step by step approach to making out desired brand explicit&#8230; The mental models and their related investigative questions will help you know where you are today so you can get to where you want to be tomorrow&#8230; This book offers an architecture to turn these ideas into action.”</span> </em>&#8211; <strong>Dave Ulrich is Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group. Co-author of the bestselling book “Leadership Brand’ ( Harvard Business Press, 2007). He was ranked as #1 management educator and guru by Business Week, #2 among management thinkers by Executive Excellence, and listed by Forbes as one of the “world’s top five” business coaches</strong>.</p>
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 Having an authentic dream and a related personal brand is a very important asset in today’s online, virtual, and individual age. This is the key to personal success. It is the positioning strategy behind the world&#8217;s most successful people, like Barack Obama. It’s therefore important to be your own brand based on your authentic dream. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=359&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<div><span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Arial;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Having an authentic dream and a related personal brand is a very important asset in today’s online, virtual, and individual age. This is the key to personal success. It is the positioning strategy behind the world&#8217;s most successful people, like Barack Obama. It’s therefore important to be your own brand based on your authentic dream. This will help you to actively grow and distinguish yourself. Remember what Walt Disney said; “If you can dream it, you can do it”. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><em>B</em>arack Obama’s </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">dream is—Bring about real change, change that we can believe in. His passion for change is the pillar of his authentic Personal Brand. Parts of his speeches: “America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before…….The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams….Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we&#8217;ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek…. I don&#8217;t want to settle for anything less than real change, fundamental change &#8211; change we need &#8211; change that we can believe in. It&#8217;s change that I&#8217;ve been fighting for over two decades ago. Because those dreams &#8211; American dreams &#8211; are worth fighting for”.</span></p>
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<div style="text-indent:-18pt;line-height:12pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">identified and leveraged his authentic, relevant, meaningful, inspiring, enduring, ambitiousdream and hope </span></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt;line-height:12pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">responses to his dream/hope with love and passion and adds value to others </span></div>
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<div style="text-indent:-18pt;line-height:12pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">recognized and identified his genius and expanded his limits based on this </span></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt;line-height:12pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">succeeded by living according to his dream and doing related work he loves </span></div>
<div style="text-indent:-18pt;line-height:12pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">has faith in himself and the courage to pursue his dream and hope, and based on this delivered peak performances and is exceptional </span></div>
<div style="line-height:12pt;margin:6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Remember this (Rampersad, 2009): </span></div>
<div style="line-height:12pt;border-color:windowtext;margin:6pt 0 0;padding:0;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Dream it, hope it, believe it, fix it in your mind, visualize it, accept it, respond to it with love, passion, and integrity, give your peak performance to it and you will achieve it</span></em></strong></div>
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<div style="margin-top:6pt;line-height:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Barack Obama is a man of hope, integrity, and vision, who is fighting for change. We admire him because of his genius, achievements, success, and added value to others. Anyone can deliver peak performances and be successful in life, because all of us have the genius within us to do so. Success is not something that will come automatically or something that the world will define for you. It’s what you define in your ambitious dream (hope) and in the way you pursue this dream. Remember what Marva Collins said; ‘<em>Success doesn’t come to you …you go to it</em>’. You must have a dream in life, follow your heart and love what you do, if you expect exceptional success. You will surely have it, since people who ask for it, wish it, dream it, hope it, fix it in their mind, visualize it, feel it, allow it, give your peak performance to it, respond to it with love, passion and integrity, attract success. Obama has proven that if someone has a clear authenticdream, responds to it with love and passion, has the courage to pursue this dream, has faith in him/herself, and lives according to their dream, this dream will guide that person’s life and will result in purposeful and resolute actions. He took the responsibility to identify his dreams and hope, and to respond to them with love and passion. Stop complaining and do not blame others for your failures. Take the initiative and the responsibility to develop, implement, and cultivate your authentic dream and hope as well, and keep it at the forefront of your mind each day. You should have faith in yourself.  Also remember this (Rampersad, 2009):</span></div>
<div style="line-height:12pt;border-color:windowtext;margin:6pt 0 auto;padding:0;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">no dream + no hope +no faith + no self-knowledge + no thinking + no mindset change + no integrity + no passion + no trust + no love = NO SUSTAINABLE CHANGE</span></em></strong></div>
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<div style="margin-top:6pt;line-height:12pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">Love is an important element in this equation. It is about loving yourself (self-love), loving others, and loving what you do. You should love yourself in at least equal measure to others or things. This can be found in most religions: “to love others as you love yourself”. Remember what Abraham Maslow said: <em>“We can only respect others when we respect ourselves. We can only give, when we give to ourselves. We can only love, when we love ourselves”</em>. Without knowing who you are (self-knowledge), it’s very difficult to love yourself and others. You need to make a positive emotional connection with yourself and find yourself interesting first, otherwise others you will not make a positive emotional connection with you and will not find you interesting. With an authentic Personal Brand (based on your dream), your strongest characteristics, attributes, and values can separate you from the crowd. Without this, you look just like everyone else. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height:12pt;margin:6pt 0 0;padding:0;"><em><span>This article is based on Dr. <span class="highlightedSearchTerm"><span style="background-color:#feff82;">Hubert</span></span> Rampersad’s new book &#8220;Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217; </span><span style="font-size:10pt;">(Information Age Publishing, USA,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> 2009 Pearson Malaysia, 2008 )</span><span style="font-size:10pt;">. He is president of TPS International Inc. (Miami Beach, USA). He can be reached at:<span class="link-mailto"><a href="mailto:h.rampersad1@chello.nl"><span style="color:black;" title="mailto:h.rampersad1@chello.nl Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen"> h.rampersad@tps-international.com</span></a></span>, <span class="link-external"><a href="http://www.total-performance-scorecard.com/"><span style="color:black;" title="http://www.total-performance-scorecard.com/ Druk op CTRL en klik als je de link wilt volgen">www.Total-Performance-Scorecard.com</span></a></span>. </span></em></div>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:navy;font-family:'Arial Narrow';" lang="EN-GB">They all </span></span><span><span style="font-size:7pt;color:#ff6600;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size:xx-small;color:#000000;font-family:Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';" lang="EN-GB">identified and leveraged their personal brand and</span></span><span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#ff6600;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size:xx-small;color:#000000;font-family:Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';" lang="EN-GB">responded to it with love and passion</span></span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:small;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:xx-small;color:#000000;font-family:Century Gothic;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';" lang="EN-GB">Most buying d</span></span></span></span>ecisions are based on trust, confidence, and the feeling of connection people have related to a product or person. It is the trusted relationship that counts! Having a strong authentic personal brand is a very important asset in today&#8217;s online, virtual, and individual age. It is becoming increasingly essential and is the key to personal success. Personal Branding is the positioning strategy behind the world&#8217;s most successful people, like Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Donald Trump, Richard Branson and Bill Gates. It is therefore important to be your own brand and to become the CEO of your life. Everyone has a Personal Brand but most people are not aware of this and do not manage this strategically, consistently, and effectively. You should take control of your brand and the message it sends and affect how others perceive you. By way of his unique Master Classes, Dr. Hubert Rampersad will offer you an advanced breakthrough formula and a new blueprint to build, implement, maintain, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, meaningful, and memorable Personal Brand, which forms the key to enduring personal success. It is based on his newest bestselling book  <em>&#8220;Authentic Personal Branding:  A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217;&#8221;</em>.  We trust you will join us in this World-Class event, and become empowered to manage the challenges facing in the 21st Century. We look forward to seeing you there!</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"> Why attend this Seminar?</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Building an authentic Personal Brand is an evolutionary and organic process and a journey towards a successful life. Your Personal Brand should emerge from your search for your identity and meaning in life, and it is about getting very clear on what you want, fixing it in your mind, giving it all your positive energy, doing what you love and develop yourself continuously. This workshop provides you a holistic and complete branding framework that will help you to create a powerful, authentic, consistent, and memorable personal brand identity that builds a trusted image of yourself and will help you enrich your relationships with others, master yourself, unlock your potential, and develop self-esteem. By aligning your Personal Brand with yourself you will create a stable basis for your trustworthiness, credibility, and personal charisma. If you are holistically branded according to the introduced authentic Personal Branding concept, your brand will get energy from likeminded brands and will attract success, people with similar beliefs, and opportunities that are a perfect fit for you, much more effectively, than just focusing on your dominant thoughts only based on the &#8216;Secret&#8217; (Law of attraction). Dr Rampersad&#8217;s Authentic Personal Branding system goes far beyond wishful thinking according to the &#8216;Secret&#8221;. As a result of this, attracting success will be much easier and sustainable. By aligning your dream and destiny with your Personal Brand you will fulfill your intense desires in a mystical way and will live effortlessly and become happy.</p>
<p> Who should attend?</p>
<p>This unique program is geared toward coaches, consultants, executives,  professionals and anyone who wishes to differentiate him/herself, set him/herself apart from others, position him/herself strongly in relation to competitors, and build credibility and a solid reputation.</p>
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<p>You will learn how to build, implement, maintain, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, meaningful, and memorable Personal Brand.  How to create positive perceptions and emotions in the mind of your prospects (that you are different, special, and unique) based on your Personal Brand. How to build a strong reputation that is aligned with your vision and passion, develop an effective image of yourself that you want to project in everything you do, and  create positive perceptions and emotions in the mind of others. Remember what Oprah Winfrey said: &#8220;<em>Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe&#8230; Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true&#8230; Go for your highest and greatest vision for your life and align your purpose with the flow of your life&#8230; Follow your passion&#8230; Sooner or later, your passion is going to win out and nobody can stop you.&#8221; </em></p>
<p> All Participants will receive a signed copy of this book</p>
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<p>From the book&#8217;s foreword by Marshall Goldsmith:  <em>&#8220;In Authentic Personal Branding, Hubert Rampersad has provided a sorely needed guidebook for knowledge workers. He shows us all how to build our own personal brand &#8211; and just as important &#8211; how to persuasively communicate this brand to the world&#8230; I love his focus on authenticity&#8230; My request to you, the reader, is &#8211; make this book part of your life.  Don&#8217;t just read this book for its &#8216;interesting&#8217; content.  Don&#8217;t be content with a few &#8216;aha&#8217; moments. Make it part of your life planning &#8211; and ultimately part of your life!  If you do, you can become a more integrated and successful person &#8211; and better enable your company to help you make a positive difference in our world!&#8221; &#8211;</em> Marshall Goldsmith is Author of <em>What Got You Here Won&#8217;t Get You There, </em>a <em>New York Times </em>bestseller, <em>Wall Street Journal </em>#1 business book and the Harold Longman Award winner for Best  Business Book of the Year for 2007. He is recognized by the American Management Association as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have impacted the field of management over the past 80 years.</p>
<p> From the Afterword by Dave Ulrich: <em>&#8220;Hubert Rampersad has a knack for preparing comprehensive frameworks for analyzing important issues&#8230; The four stage model that he suggests proposes an explicit way to turn a desired external identity into something concrete and actionable&#8230; It&#8217;s a wonderful step by step approach to making out desired brand explicit&#8230; The mental models and their related investigative questions will help you know where you are today so you can get to where you want to be tomorrow&#8230; This book offers an architecture to turn these ideas into action.&#8221; &#8211;</em> Dave Ulrich is Professor of Business, University of Michigan, and Partner, The RBL Group. Co-author of the bestselling book &#8220;<em>Leadership Brand&#8217;</em> ( Harvard Business Press, 2007). He was ranked as #1 management educator and guru by Business Week, #2 among management thinkers by Executive Excellence, and listed by Forbes as one of the &#8220;world&#8217;s top five&#8221; business coaches.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published:  December 14, 2008 in California JobJournal (Cover page); http://jobjournal.com/article_full_text.asp?artid=2534
By Dr. Hubert Rampersad
In life, as in business, branding is more effective, powerful and sustainable than marketing and sales, and an effective way to best the competition. It&#8217;s about influencing others, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:Arial;">By <a href="http://tinyurl.com/c7udjm">Dr. Hubert Rampersad</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;color:black;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In life, as in business, branding is more effective, powerful and sustainable than marketing and sales, and an effective way to best the competition. It&#8217;s about influencing others, by creating a brand identity that associates certain perceptions and feelings with that identity.</span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://jobjournal.com/article_full_text.asp?artid=2534"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-286" title="plaatje-jobjournal" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/plaatje-jobjournal.gif?w=100&#038;h=100" alt="plaatje-jobjournal" width="100" height="100" /></a>Branding isn&#8217;t just for companies anymore. Successful personal branding entails managing the perceptions effectively and controlling and influencing how others perceive and think of you. In today&#8217;s instant-message, online, virtual age, a strong personal brand is becoming increasingly essential and is key to personal success. It is fundamental to the positioning strategy behind the world&#8217;s most successful people. Icons like Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and, most recently, Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Everyone has a personal brand, but most people are not aware of this and do not manage it strategically, consistently or effectively. You should take control of your brand and the message it sends and affects how others perceive you. This will help you to grow in a specific direction and distinguish yourself as an exceptional professional.</p>
<p>Most traditional personal branding concepts focus mainly on personal marketing, image building, selling, outward appearances, promoting oneself, and becoming famous, which can easily veer into an ego trip and lead to perceptions of egocentricity and selfishness. They define personal branding from a personal marketing (selling) point of view.<a href="http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&amp;p=p49bebb1cdd589"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-508" title="us-edition_pb" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/us-edition_pb.jpg?w=500&#038;h=375" alt="us-edition_pb" width="500" height="375" /></a></p>
<p>Personal branding is more than just marketing and promoting yourself. Your personal brand is the synthesis of all the expectations, images, and perceptions it creates in the minds of others, when they see or hear your name. Consider the images which come to mind when we think of some well-known individuals:</p>
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<li>Most people see Oprah Winfrey as powerful and influential, but also warm and caring.</li>
<li>Tiger Woods is considered an intense competitor and the greatest golfer in the world.</li>
<li>Bill Gates brings to mind gadgets, geeks, and philanthropy.</li>
<li>Donald Trump is associated with ego and a decisive ruthlessness.</li>
<li>Mother Teresa is the epitome of helping the poor, selflessness and saintly behavior.</li>
<li>Albert Einstein is remembered as a great and gentle genius.</li>
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<p>Barack Obama is seen as a man of intelligence, integrity and vision, who is fighting for change. His passion for change is the pillar of his authentic personal brand, and it is the primary theme of many of his speeches. &#8220;America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. . . And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before. . . The true test of the American ideal is whether . . . chance of birth or circumstance decides life&#8217;s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams. . . I don&#8217;t want to settle for anything less than real change, fundamental change &#8211; change we need &#8211; change that we can believe in. It&#8217;s change that I&#8217;ve been fighting for for over two decades. Because those dreams &#8211; American dreams &#8211; are worth fighting for.&#8221;</p>
<p>Note how many times he references authentic dreams. Barack Obama has succeeded by living according to his dream and doing related work that he loves. It&#8217;s important to be true to your own dreams and to become the CEO of your personal brand.</p>
<p><strong>The Genius Within You</strong></p>
<p>Anyone can deliver peak performances and be successful in life, because all of us have the genius within us to do so. Success is not something that will come automatically or something that the world will define for you. It&#8217;s what you define in your ambitious dream (hope) and in the way you pursue this dream. Remember what Marva Collins said: &#8220;<em>Success doesn&#8217;t come to you . . . you go to it.&#8221;</em> You must have a dream in life, follow your heart and love what you do, if you expect exceptional success. Take the initiative and the responsibility to develop, implement and cultivate your authentic dream, and keep it at the forefront of your mind each day.</p>
<p>Your personal brand should be authentic. Authentic personal branding provides a roadmap for a journey toward a happier and more successful life. Your personal brand should therefore emerge from your search for your identity and meaning in life, and it is about getting very clear on what you want, fixing it in your mind, giving it all your positive energy, doing what you love, and developing yourself continuously. Your personal brand should reflect your true character, and should be built on your values, strengths, uniqueness, and genius. If you are branded in this organic, authentic and holistic way, your personal brand will be strong, clear, and valuable to others. You will also create a life that is fulfilling and you will automatically attract the people and opportunities that are a perfect fit for you.</p>
<p>If you are not branded in any unique way, if you don&#8217;t deliver according to your brand promise, or if you focus mainly on simply selling and promoting yourself, you could be perceived as egocentric, selfish, and a unique jerk &#8211; and branding will be a cosmetic and dirty business.</p>
<p><strong>Love and Respect</strong></p>
<p>Love is an important element in this personal branding equation. It is about loving yourself (self-respect), loving others, and loving what you do. You should love yourself in at least equal measure to others or things. This can be found in most religions: &#8220;to love others as you love yourself.&#8221; Abraham Maslow said, &#8220;We can only respect others when we respect ourselves. We can only give, when we give to ourselves. We can only love, when we love ourselves.&#8221; Without knowing who you are, it&#8217;s very difficult to love yourself or others. You need to make a positive emotional connection with yourself and find yourself interesting before others can do the same.</p>
<p>An organic, holistic and authentic personal brand will help you unlock your potential and build a trusted image that you can project in everything you do; a brand that is in harmony with your dreams, life purpose, values, passion, specialization and genius.</p>
<p>With an authentic personal brand, your strongest attributes and values can separate you from the crowd. Without it, you look just like everyone else.</p>
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		<title>Authentic Political Leadership Branding</title>
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The complete framework for defining and implementing a sustainable, powerful and authentic personal leadership brand identity. How to Build Credibility and a Solid Reputation for Yourself and your Political Party; How to Put YOU above other Politicians. 
 
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<address><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The complete framework for defining and implementing a sustainable, powerful and authentic personal leadership brand identity.<strong> </strong></span></span><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US">How to Build Credibility and a Solid Reputation for Yourself and your Political Party;</span></span></em><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font:7pt &amp;"> </span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">How to Put YOU above other Politicians. </span></em></span></address>
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<address><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000080;">H</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#000080;">aving an authentic political leadership brand is the positioning strategy behind the success of <a href="http://pbuniversity.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/barack-obama%E2%80%99s-authentic-personal-brand/">Barack Obama.</a> It’s important to be your own brand based on your authentic dream. This will help you to actively grow and distinguish yourself as a successful political leader.</span></span> <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-198" title="obama_barack1" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/obama_barack1.jpg?w=127&#038;h=171" alt="obama_barack1" width="127" height="171" /></span></span></address>
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<address class="newsImageContainer1"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;">Barack Obama’s </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">dream is—&#8221;<em>Bring about real change, change that we can believe in</em>&#8220;. He:</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> &#8211; </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">identified and leveraged this authentic and ambitious dream -</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">responsed to this dream with love and passion-</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">knows what make him unique, special, different and outstanding -</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">recognized and identified his genius and expanded his limits based on this  -</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">succeeded by living according to his dream/brand and doing related work he loves -</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;"><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;">has faith in himself and the courage to pursue his dream and brand, and based on this delivered peak performances and is exceptional. </span></span></address>
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<p><strong>Also based on the new book: &#8220;Be The CEO of Your Life: The Ultimate Authentic Personal Branding Formula for Standing Out from the Crowd” </strong></p>
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		<title>PERSONAL BRANDING BOOT CAMP BAHAMAS CRUISE</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 morning classes with afternoons and evenings free to enjoy the cruise
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How to Build Great Credibility and a Solid Reputation for Yourself and  How to Put YOU above Your Competitors.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://bit.ly/rT6wU"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-192" title="carnival2" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/carnival2.jpg?w=500&#038;h=238" alt="carnival2" width="500" height="238" /></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:navy;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Arial;">3 morning classes with afternoons and evenings free to enjoy the cruise</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:navy;font-family:'Lucida Handwriting';"><span style="font-size:medium;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#003300;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-US">Sailing dates: August 28, September 4, October 2, November 6, December 4,  2009</span> </span></span></span></span></span></p>
<h4 class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">How to Build Great Credibility and a Solid Reputation for Yourself and </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:9pt;font-family:Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font:7pt &quot;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-GB">How to Put YOU above Your Competitors.</span></span></h4>
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<address class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';">By way of this unique boot camp, Dr. Hubert Rampersad will offer you an advanced breakthrough formula and a new blueprint to build, implement, maintain, and cultivate an authentic, distinctive, concise, meaningful, crystal clear, and memorable Personal Brand, which forms the key to enduring personal success. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';">It&#8217;s based on his new book  </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';" lang="EN-GB">“</span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;" lang="NL"><em>Authentic Personal Branding:  A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217;</em></span></span></span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:'Century Gothic';">.  </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Century Gothic;">We trust you will join us in this World-Class event, and become empowered to manage the challenges facing in the 21st Century. We look forward to seeing you there!</span></span></span></span></address>
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<address class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:navy;font-family:Verdana;"><strong>Who should attend?  </strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#ff6600;font-family:Wingdings;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';">This unique program is geared toward executives,  professionals and anyone who wishes to differentiate him/herself,</span><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';"> set him/herself apart from others,</span><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';"> position him/herself strongly in relation to competitors, and </span><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';">build credibility and a solid reputation.</span></span></span></address>
<p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;" lang="EN">Please ask for further information about our related master class at: </span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current financial crisis is driving the world into a global recession. There is no job security anymore. Especially in times of financial crisis you need to be independent, become the CEO of your life and redefine yourself in order to create and attract new creative opportunities. This can be realized successfully according to an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=136&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">The current financial crisis is driving the world into a global recession. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">There is no job security anymore. Especially </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">in times of financial crisis you need to</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> be independent,</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> b</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">ecome the CEO of your life </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">and redefine yourself in order to create and attract new creative opportunities. This can be realized successfully according to an innovative four-stage authentic personal branding model, that will be introduced in this article, based on the bestselling book “</span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">Authentic Personal Branding:  A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217; </span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">(Information Age Publishing, USA, 2009). You can get yourself out of this crisis b</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">y </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">re-branding and managing yourself effectively and by </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">building, implementing and cultivating your authentic personal brand according to this model. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">If you are well branded according to this approach, you will master the financial crisis successfully, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">smartly save costs, generate new revenues</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">, find it easier to convince others and attract the people and opportunities that are a perfect fit for you. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">This new system will help you to actively grow and distinguish yourself as an exceptional professional. Remember what </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Albert Einstein said: <em>&#8220;In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity</em>&#8220;. Now is the best time to engage in a meaningful dialogue with yourself and build your personal brand in order to better master the financial crisis with your unique value proposition. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">This innovative personal branding approach will provide you a roadmap to translate your genius, dreams and aspirations into manageable improvement actions and will help you adjust</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> your market offerings to the different crisis needs of various customer segments. Now during the crisis it is a great time to re</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">position yourself strongly in relation to your competitors, built a strong reputation, develop an effective image of yourself that you want to project in everything you do, and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">become more creative and innovative. While some individuals fight for survival, this financial crisis is an excellent opportunity for visionary people who like to </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">differentiate themselves,<span> set them apart from others and</span> c</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN">reate an identity around themselves. This makes it easier for others to remember who they are, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">become known as a thriving and distinguished professional and improve themselves continuously. They develop their own </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">creative responses to this financial crisis instead of following the standard responses of individuals during a recession. They master the personal<span>  </span>financial crisis because they have </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">identified and leveraged their </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">authentic </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">dream, respond to it with passion, know what make them unique, special, different and outstanding, identified their genius, expand their limits based on this, and have faith in themselves and</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> the courage to pursue their dream and personal brand.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-137" title="branding-cycle" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/branding-cycle.jpg?w=500&#038;h=375" alt="branding-cycle" width="500" height="375" /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"> <span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">Figure 1: Authentic Personal Branding Model (Rampersad, 2009)</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">Four Points to Master a Personal Financial Crisis</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">              </span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">Building an authentic Personal Brand to </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">response to the financial crisis</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> is an<span> evolutionary</span> and organic process.<span> </span>This process consists of the following four phases, which are the building blocks of a strong authentic Personal Brand (see figure 1):</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">1) Define and formulate your Authentic Personal Ambition</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">; This phase involves defining and formulating your Personal Ambition in an exciting and persuasive manner and making it visible. Your Personal Ambition is the soul, starting point, core intention and the guiding principles of your Personal Brand. It’s the fuel for your brand and encompasses your personal vision, mission, and key roles. It is about developing your self-awareness and identifying yourself and figuring out what your dreams are, <strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;">who you are</span></strong><span>,</span> what you stand for, what makes you unique and special, why you are different than anyone, what your values are, and identifying your genius, incorporating an introduced breathing and silence exercise. You are almost twice as likely to accomplish your brand if you write this down. Your Personal Ambition makes your Personal Brand Personal and links this to your values.</span></p>
<p class="NormalWeb1" style="margin:14pt 0 14pt 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">2) Define and formulate your Authentic Personal Brand;</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> This phase involves defining and formulating </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">an authentic, distinctive</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">, relevant, concise, meaningful, compelling, enduring, and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">crystal clear <span>Personal Brand</span> promise, and use it as the focal point of your behavior and actions. First of all, perform a personal SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) and evaluate yourself after using the breathing and silence exercise. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN">This will also make you aware of the signs of the financial crisis in your internal and external environment. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">The result of SWOT analysis is the definition of your personal life style. This relates to your personal ambition and brand objectives. Your brand objectives entail w<span>hat you want your Personal Brand to accomplish. You also need to determine your specialization, concentrating on a single core talent. Define your main specific services, your key characteristics your single leading and most powerful attribute.<span>  </span>Finally, determine what your audience (domain) is and what their greatest needs are.<strong> </strong>Your Personal Brand Statement entails the total of your Personal Ambition, brand objectives, specialty, service dominant attribute, and domain. It also includes your Unique Value Proposition. The next step in this second stage is to define your Personal Brand Story (Elevator Pitch), which is the essence of what you want to say about your Personal Brand</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> in order to produce a positive emotional reaction. Finally you should design your</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> Personal Logo, which is a single graphical symbol that represents your Personal Brand.<strong> </strong></span></p>
<p class="NormalWeb1" style="margin:14pt 0 14pt 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">3) Formulate your Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">; Personal Ambition and Personal Brand have no value unless you take action to make them a reality. Therefore the emphasis in this stage is developing an integrated and well balanced action plan based on your Personal Ambition and Personal Brand to reach your life and brand objectives and to eliminate any negative elements. It’s about translating your Personal Ambition and Personal Brand into your PBSC (action). Your PBSC entails your personal critical success factors that are related to your Personal Ambition and Brand and the corresponding objectives, performance measures, targets and prioritized improvement actions to master the crisis and to manage yourself effectively. It is also divided into the four perspectives: internal, external, knowledge &amp; learning, and financial perspectives. Your PBSC translates your Personal Ambition and Personal Brand into manageable and measurable personal objectives, milestones and improvement actions in a holistic and balanced way. Your PBSC is needed to improve and manage yourself continuously based on your Personal Ambition and Brand. It’s an effective tool that you can use to manage and master yourself and monitor your behavior and actions. </span></p>
<p class="NormalWeb1" style="margin:14pt 0 14pt 18pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">4) Implement and cultivate your Personal Ambition, Personal Brand and Personal Balanced Scorecard</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">; Personal Ambition, Personal Brand, and the PBSC have no value unless you implement them to make it a reality. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Therefore the next step is to implement, maintain, and cultivate your ambition, brand and PBSC effectively. You have to a</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN">rticulate your Personal Brand</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> with love and passion, be committed to change, and improve your perceived value in the marketplace and yourself continuously. In addition, try to build credibility and become an expert in your field. Get the word out through a variety of media channels, do work you love which is consistent with your Personal Brand and values, gain experience in areas of your brand in which you are weak</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-GB">, p</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US">romote yourself, market your brand frequently and consistently, make conscious choices about the people you associate with, build a strong network, deliver on your brand promise, and in short live according to your brand promise.<span>  </span>To guide you in this process a unique learning cycle called the Plan-Deploy-Act-Challenge cycle (PDAC cycle) have been introduced, which should be followed continuously. This is necessary to let your brand awareness grow gradually. This learning process will help you to become proactive, manage your time effectively, and anticipate on the crisis.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;" lang="EN">The introduced breathing and silence exercises will help you calm down and regain control of your mind and body during the crisis. </span></p>
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<p>From the fore word of Dr. Hubert Rampersad’s new best selling book &#8220;Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217; (Information Age Publishing, USA; Pearson Malaysia; Sarabooks, New Delhi; Knowledge Resources, South Africa; Alphina, Vietnam; Olympus Business, Moscow; 2008 ).<br />
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<p>I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now the Leader to Leader Institute) for ten years. Peter was a pioneer in understanding the impact of knowledge workers in the new economy. He simply defined knowledge workers as ‘people who know more about what they are doing than their boss does’. In a world where knowledge workers are the key to value in most corporations, personal brand management becomes critically important. Professionals at all levels will need to be able to communicate their unique brand within and across organizations – and be able to communicate effectively to decision makers who may not have their level of technical expertise. One of the great ironies that I regularly encounter in the workforce, is the fact that many technically trained professionals have spent years ‘honing their craft’ and developing their expertise – yet have spent almost no time in learning to communicate this expertise.</p>
<p>In Authentic Personal Branding, Dr. Hubert Rampersad has provided a sorely needed guidebook for knowledge workers. He shows us all how to build our own personal brand – and just as important – how to persuasively communicate this brand to the world. In today’s world of global competition, increasing pressure and constant communication, most professionals that I meet are working harder than they have ever worked in their entire lives. If you are working 60-80 hours a week &#8211; not enjoying your work and not feeling psychologically connected with what you are doing &#8211; you are living in a very painful place called ‘new age professional Hell’. There are too many professionals living there today! Dr. Rampersad continually reinforces the connection between personal and professional well-being.</p>
<p>I love Hubert’s focus on authenticity. Given the incredible expectations and demands faced by today’s professionals, commitment has to be real. ‘Faking it’ for that many hours is just too painful! Making an authentic connection between the values that we profess and the values that we live will not only make us better people, it will enable us to live happier and more productive lives.<br />
Finally, professionals need to connect and integrate personal brand and company brand. Far too many companies have ‘value statements’ on the walls that have nothing to do with the behavior of their leaders. Companies need to hire professionals whose values and behaviors are consistent with their desired brand. Professionals need to work in companies whose ‘lived’ values and behaviors are consistent with their personal brand.</p>
<p>My request to you, the reader, is – make this book part of your life. Don’t just read this book for its ‘interesting’ content. Don’t be content with a few ‘aha’ moments. Make it part of your life planning – and ultimately part of your life! If you do, you can become a more integrated and successful person – and better enable your company to help you make a positive difference in our world!</p>
<p>Marshall Goldsmith<br />
Author of What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, a New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book and the Harold Longman Award winner for Best Business Book of the Year for 2007</p>
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<p>From the after word of Dr. Hubert Rampersad’s new best selling book &#8220;Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217; (Information Age Publishing, USA; Pearson Malaysia; Sarabooks, New Delhi; Knowledge Resources, South Africa; Alphina, Vietnam; Olympus Business, Moscow; 2008 ).<br />
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<p>When you have read Hubert Rampersad’s outstanding book Authentic Personal Branding, you will probably wondering “what does this all mean?” It is nearly impossible to retain all the details of four stages of the authentic personal branding model, you will want to remember some of the messages of this book and how they can be applied to you and your personal and professional life. Of course, you may want to refer back to some of the simple and elegant models for personal and company ambition, objectives, critical success factors, and actions. Hubert has a knack for preparing comprehensive frameworks for analyzing important issues. You may also want to reflect on many of the self and organization diagnostic questions that offer you insight into your brand and your company’s brand. These mental models and their related investigative questions will help you know where you are today so you can get to where you want to be tomorrow.</p>
<p>We tend to like books and ideas that confirm and inform our thinking. Both of these are true for me of this book. With my colleagues Wayne Brockbank, Norm Smallwood, and Jon Younger, we have thought, debated, and written about issues related to firm, leadership, and personal brand.<a name="_ednref1" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6655708479182348073#_edn1">[i]</a> We have tried to understand how to help leaders develop leadership within their companies, how to build talent throughout a company, and how to use HR practices to create and sustain value. Many of the themes in this book confirm our thinking. But, this work also informs our thinking and helps us move forward in what we know and do. While each reader will glean unique insights from this book, let me try to capture some of my key takeaways.</p>
<p>1. Personal brand exists</p>
<p>Whether we like it or not, we all have a personal brand. We have an identity that we are known for by those who know us both best and least. This personal identity sends signals about how we want to be treated and filters how others connect, interact, and deal with us. When our personal brand is implicit and unintentional we may be surprised by how we interact with others. When our personal brand is deliberate and disciplined, we can shape how we are treated. Our lives are much less complicated when we identify and act on our personal brand.</p>
<p>When I was leading a mission for our Church, I supervised over about 500 young men and women who dedicated 18 to 24 months of their lives doing community service. During this time, they lived a very monkish existence, abstaining from the normal social and party norms of their generation. They worked to recognize and teach moral principles and they abstained from things would detract them from their mission. At the end of their service, they returned back into the “real” world where they would be tempted to succumb to more worldly patterns. One young man was very worried since on leaving his mission he would be joining the military. In our final interview, he expressed concern that he would be able to continue to live the values that he had assimilated during his mission. We talked about the 4 3’s. I promised him that if he would live his values without fanfare for 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks, and 3 months, that he would not struggle to live his values. He tested my ideas. About 6 months later we saw him and he said that he now found it easy to live his values. After 3 months of doing what he felt was right, he had developed a reputation (or personal brand) that others knew him for. His fellow troops had learned what he values and they saw that he lived those values. They honored his expectations and in fact protected him from strangers who did not know him by saying “don’t invite Cody to this activity, it is not something he would be interested in.”</p>
<p>When we are intentional about our personal brand, others will respect us and help us retain our brand. If we are not clear about our personal brand, and our behaviors vary, others will not know how to treat us and we struggle for consistency in our lives.</p>
<p>2. Personal brand can be created and evolved</p>
<p>When I decided I wanted to be a teacher for a living, I recognized that public speaking was not my predisposition. As a strong introvert, I found it difficult to be in front of groups. Yet, I knew that if I was going to be a good presenter, I needed to replace fears with confidence. I wanted to develop a reputation an engaging and thoughtful teacher. So, I observed some of the best professors in the world at the University of Michigan and elsewhere. I took notes less on what they said and more on how they said it. I experimented with teaching styles and approaches. I sought detailed feedback on how my efforts worked. I reflected on what I said and how I said it. I wrote notes to myself on what worked and what did not work in presentations. Over 20 years, I am still somewhat uncomfortable being in front of groups, but I have shaped my personal identity.</p>
<p>In a major review of the literature on nature/nurture (are you born with a set of skills or can you develop them), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology found that it is about 50/50. About half of who we are (our personal brand) is strongly linked to our genealogy. As we age, we find our parents looking back at us in the mirror. And, about half is what we chose to become. With this in mind, I believe we can intentionally create the brand we want to become. The four stages Hubert lays out are a wonderful step by step approach to making out desired brand explicit. Brands evolve. They can adapt by our intentional reflection and action. While we are beholden to our past, we are not bound to it.</p>
<p>3. Organizations have a brand that becomes its culture</p>
<p>When we ask participants in workshops to fill in the blank, “our organization culture is our _________. “ Most participants answer with words or phrases like: values, norms, beliefs, behaviors, expectations, or accepted ways of doing things. While we don’t disagree with these accepted definitions, we think that there is a better way to define culture. All of these observations focus on the inside, what “we” are known for and do. Elsewhere, we have argued that an organization’s culture can best be defined by starting from the outside in.</p>
<p>When we work with executive teams, we often start with, “given your strategy, what are the top 3 things you want to be known for by your best customers?” This question focuses on the outside customers. What is the identity (or brand) that you want to be known for by those who use your services. When the top team has a unity of identity, when they makes this identity real to customers, and when they translate this external identity into internal management practices, they have shaped a culture that creates value and endures over time.</p>
<p>The four stage model that Hubert suggests proposes an explicit way to turn a desired external identity into something concrete and actionable. When the external brand becomes the internal culture, real value is created. In Leadership Brand, we talk about how successful leadership exists when leaders at all levels of an organization act in accordance with customer expectations. In HR Value Proposition, we suggest that all HR practices (staffing, training, compensation, communication, work design) can and should be aligned with customer expectations.</p>
<p>4. Alignment of the firm brand and individual brand becomes a primary leadership agenda</p>
<p>Leaders lead best when they build the next generation of leadership who does the right things right. We have argued that good leadership is not just about what the individual leader knows and does, but about how leadership becomes an organization capability that is not uniquely tied to one individual leader. A firm brand exists when it is not just a single product or service, but the reputation of the firm through many products or services. When Marriott hotel puts its name on its brand (Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn, Courtyard), consumer confidence goes up. It is not one product, but the Marriott reputation that is branded.</p>
<p>Likewise, leadership brand exists when leaders at all levels act to turn customer expectations into employee actions. As the outside demands of customers become the internal practices of employees, all stakeholders to a firm win. Investors increase share price because of the intangible value of the firm. Customers have confidence not only in today’s product, but tomorrow’s ability to maintain a stream of products and services. Employees can act on an employee value proposition and brand that connects them to the firm.</p>
<p>In the popular organization press, we are told lately to build on our strengths. It is very hard to disagree with this logic. Marcus Buckingham and others have argued that discovering what we do well is a first step to lasting success. Leaders whose strengths are around creativity will be more successful in innovative organizations and work environments, for example.</p>
<p>But building only on your strengths is not enough if those strengths do not create value for those you lead. In college, I majored in English. I developed a knack for reading novels. I could read two or three novels a week and found this easy, energizing and enjoyable. But what I have since found is that few people care about my strength of reading novels. What they really care about is my ability to analyze a situation in ways that help them reach their goals. Reading and interpreting good writing is a sustainable strength when it informs my ability to diagnose and help others work through their problems.</p>
<p>According to a recent movie, “The Bucket List” the Egyptians believed that the gatekeepers of heaven ask new arrivals two questions about their lives on earth: Did you find joy? Did you bring joy to others? The first question is about building on your strengths to find joy. It is necessary, but not sufficient. It is about the self, not others. The second question shifts the focus of joy to helping others find it. Put in terms of our strengths discussion, this means that we should build on our strengths that strengthen others.</p>
<p>Leaders may strive to acquire strengths of authenticity, judgment, emotional intelligence, credibility and other noble attributes. But unless and until they apply these strengths in ways that create value for others, they have not been totally successful. Some in the strengths movement have missed the conclusion Seligman reached in his 2004 book, Authentic Happiness: “The meaningful life: using your signature strengths and virtues in the service of something much larger than you are.”</p>
<p>For leaders, this means that it is not enough to do our work well. We must also use our strengths to deliver value to others</p>
<p>Conclusion</p>
<p>These four takeaways are not dramatic, but they shape how I think about organizations where I consult, work, and learn. They help me know that my personal reputation should be tied to the desired organization reputation. This book offers an architecture to turn these ideas into action.<br />
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Dave Ulrich<br />
Professor, University of Michigan<br />
Partner, the RBL Group<br />
Co-author of Leadership Brand. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2007.<br />
Co-author of HR Value Proposition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2005.</p>
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Linking Human Capital to Six Sigma                                                        
                               
A New Blueprint for Creating a High Performance Six Sigma Culture   

This new forthcoming book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called Human Six Sigma. This model entails the integration of Dr. Hubert Rampersad’s Total Performance Scorecard, Personal Balanced Scorecard, and Authentic Personal Branding concepts and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rampersad.wordpress.com&blog=2549488&post=21&subd=rampersad&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;color:navy;font-family:Arial;"><span><a title="Human Six SigmaTM" href="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/human-six-sigmabook-cover.jpg"><img style="width:371px;height:226px;" src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/human-six-sigmabook-cover.jpg?w=784&#038;h=674" alt="Human Six SigmaTM" width="784" height="674" /></a>                                </span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;color:navy;font-family:Arial;">Linking Human Capital to Six Sigma</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Verdana;">                                    </span></strong><span style="color:black;font-family:Verdana;"> <span>              <img src="http://rampersad.wordpress.com/wp-admin/" border="0" alt="\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\TPSI website\TPS&amp;Lean Six Sigma\logo1" width="1" height="1" /> </span></span><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Arial;text-shadow:auto;"><span> </span></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Verdana;text-shadow:auto;"><span> </span></span></strong></p>
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<p><strong></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Arial;text-shadow:auto;">A New Blueprint for C</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Arial;text-shadow:auto;">reating a High Performance Six Sigma Culture</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#cc0000;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></em></p>
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<p><em></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">This new forthcoming book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called Human Six Sigma. This model entails the integration of Dr. Hubert Rampersad’s Total Performance Scorecard, Personal Balanced Scorecard, and Authentic Personal Branding concepts and Six Sigma. Human Six Sigma and the related new tools provide an excellent and innovative framework for</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;"> creating </span></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">a high performance Six Sigma culture and a </span></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">sustainable breakthrough in both the manufacturing and service industries.</span></em><em></em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="color:black;"> </span></span></p>
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Learn the Latest Techniques and Tools in TPS &#38; Lean Six Sigma To Earn Your Certification!  
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<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:'Arial Black';">Learn the Latest Techniques and Tools in TPS &amp; </span></em><em><span style="color:black;font-family:'Arial Black';">Lean Six Sigma </span></em><em><span style="color:black;font-style:normal;font-family:'Arial Black';">To Earn Your Certification!</span></em><em> </em></span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0000ff;"> </span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">TPS International Inc., Miami Beach, Florida, offers a unique Green Belt and Black Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification training</span></em><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">that facilitates corporations in reducing variation and eliminating waste in a sustainable way based on the </span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">TPS &amp;</span> </span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Lean Six Sigma<span style="color:black;"> <span style="color:#0000ff;">Methodology</span>. </span>We show you how to implement Lean Six Sigma and reduce process variation in everything you do. By reducing variation, your organization can significantly reduce cost, improve cycle times, eliminate customer complaints, and drastically improve your corporate bottom line. This powerful program will provide participants with the proven Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques, plus practical experience to catapult their organization toward &#8220;<em>World Class</em>&#8221; status</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000ff;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">.<a title="tps-lean-six-sigma-logo.jpg" href="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/tps-lean-six-sigma-logo.jpg"><img src="http://rampersad.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/tps-lean-six-sigma-logo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="tps-lean-six-sigma-logo.jpg" /></a></span></span></p>
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<p><em><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">TPS &amp; </span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Lean Six Sigma is Human Lean Six Sigma approach that helps organizations in any environment &#8211; service or manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, government, etc. &#8211; boost financial performance by assessing, managing, and improving the employee-customer encounter. It’s based on our new book <strong><em><span style="font-weight:normal;color:black;font-family:Arial;">TPS-Lean Six Sigma;</span></em></strong><strong><em><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></em></strong></span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma.</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> It entails a new blueprint for creating high performance companies.</span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Many companies around the world are adopting the Lean Six Sigma Methodology in an effort to increase quality, reduce cost and increase customer service. <em><span style="font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">TPS International Inc., Miami Beach, Florida</span></em><em> offers</em> a TPS &amp; Lean Six Sigma Certification training for Green Belt and Black Belt to educate participants on TPS &amp; Lean Six Sigma Management, methodologies and tools. </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training includes a two weeks of classroom training and the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Training includes a four weeks of classroom training. <span>The first two weeks of the Black Belt course is the same as the Green Belt. </span>This 2+2 format allows for Green Belts and Black Belts to attend this training together, thus improving internal synergy while providing greater organizational flexibility. Emphasis is on gaining knowledge in all aspects of product and process life cycles. Our Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt instructors have experience implementing Lean Six Sigma in a variety of organizations and assist the students with their particular needs as they work their way through their first project during the training. Black Belt participants become certified through </span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">TPS International Inc.</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">after completing the 4 week training program successfully and upon completion of their project. Green Belt participants become certified after completing the 2 week training program successfully</span><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial;">. We</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> provide the training and mentoring required for successful implementation of TPS &amp; Lean Six Sigma in your organization.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Highlights of this Learning Experience:</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Integration of Lean and Six Sigma Process Management Techniques and concepts using the </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) methodology </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Integration of Lean Six Sigma and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Human Lean Six Sigma<span style="color:black;"> using the Total Performance Scorecard Methodology. </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Hands-on training with Minitab Software for Black Belts </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Strategic Process Improvement -</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span><span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">     </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Process Analysis and Management Tools </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Understand Six Sigma Management </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Develop the ability to solve a problem using the DMAIC methodology </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Learn organizational and structuring skills using lean concepts </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Illustrate the conditions for a 3-sigma process and a 6-sigma process and illustrate the improvement in percent output between its lower and upper specification limits </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Discuss the costs and benefits of Six Sigma management and the roles and responsibilities of the individuals and bodies involved </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><span>-<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Statistics for Effective Business Decisions, plus much more </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Our focus is to create success for you personally, and for your organization. We guarantee you will be delighted with the results of this learning experience.</span></p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Who Should Attend</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Anyone who wants an in-depth understanding of the Lean Six Sigma process </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Anyone who has been given the challenge to implement (Lean) Six Sigma </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Anyone working in an organization already deploying (Lean) Six Sigma </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Any employee of an organization participating in (Lean) Six Sigma teams</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Executives who wants<span>  </span>to d</span><span class="li"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">ecrease defects and cycle time, improve customer satisfaction, and generate business growth and improve profitability </span></span></li>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Workshop Facilitator:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><br />
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Dr. <strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;">Hubert Rampersad, main author of the book</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong><em><span>TPS-Lean Six Sigma; <strong><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;">Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma (</span></strong></span></em>Information Age Publishing Inc., Connecticut, 2007)</span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong></p>
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<p><span class="sectiontitle"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:windowtext;font-family:Arial;">What&#8217;s Included in the rate</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span></strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">The course price includes: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">breakfast, lunch, and refreshments each course day </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">a student manual developed by experienced instructional designers </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">a copy of the standard forms, templates, and worksheets for use back at the workplace </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">certificates upon completion of course requirements </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Training Dates for Lean Six Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts:</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><strong>Location: </strong><span>Miami Beach</span><span> Florida</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><strong></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;">Enrollment:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;font-family:Arial;"><br />
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My Personal Mission
Enjoy the freedom to develop and share knowledge, especially if this can mean something in the life of others.
My Personal Vision
To live life completely, honestly, and compassionately and to serve the needs of mankind to the best of my ability. I want to realize this in the following way:
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<p><strong>My Personal Mission</strong><br />
Enjoy the freedom to develop and share knowledge, especially if this can mean something in the life of others.</p>
<p><strong>My Personal Vision<br />
To live life completely, honestly, and compassionately and to serve the needs of mankind to the best of my ability. I want to realize this in the following way:<br />
• Enjoy physical and mental health<br />
• Passionate and compassionate to inspire others, earn their respect, and always serve out of love<br />
• Energize innovative organizations where human spirit thrives and which model the best practices in business performance and personal integrity<br />
• Experience enjoyment in my work by being full of initiative, accepting challenges continuously, and to keep on learning<br />
• Achieve financial security<br />
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<p><strong>My Personal Key Roles</strong><br />
In order to achieve my vision, the following key roles have top priority:<br />
Spouse: Rita is the most important person in my life<br />
Father: Guide Rodney and Warren on the road to independence<br />
Coach: Love to serve learning individuals and innovative organizations to unlock their potential<br />
Student: Learn something new every day and always be a scholar</p>
<p><strong>My Personal Brand Statement</strong><br />
<em>Linking Human Capital to Business Success;</em> Passionate and compassionate to inspire learning individuals to unlock their potential and dedicated to energize innovative organizations within the service and manufacturing industry. Using my holistic insight and innovative Total Performance Scorecard and Authentic Personal Branding principles, I promise to help my customers to realize their dreams.</p>
<p><strong>My Life Story</strong><br />
I was born in Suriname (a former Dutch Colony in South America) in 1957. My father worked as policeman and had little money to raise 10 children (I am number 7). We were living in a very old house in Paramaribo, almost in poverty. Life was quite hard and we lived from week to week. So my parents decided to migrate to the Netherlands in 1971 in order to create better learning opportunities for us. They used all their savings to finance this migration. I was 12 years old when we moved to the Netherlands. At that time, I had a dream to make people happy, serve the needs of mankind, and help create a better world. This was my higher calling, my inner assignment. I remember this. I looked up at factories and buildings and said, &#8220;I want to make the people that go to those factories and buildings live a happy life&#8221;. I was also very eager to learn and I knew that life is short, so I chose to work hard and to grasp every opportunity to educate myself and to make my parents proud of me and not to disappoint them.<br />
I decided to study Mechanical Engineering at Enschede Polytechnic Institute, where I got my Bachelor of Science degree. After this, I received a Masters of Science in Robotics from Delft University of Technology, and a Ph.D. in Management from Eindhoven University of Technology. I was the first person at this university who got his doctorate within 2 years. My dissertation was published by John Wiley, Inc. in the United States. I was also the first person among my family, friends and relatives to receive these advanced degrees.</p>
<p>    During this time, I married and had two sons. In order to support my growing family and pay for tuition, I worked in the evenings and during the weekends as a labourer in factories. While doing this, I noticed that many employees were unhappy. I also noticed that executives contributed to this unhappiness by their disrespectful and often unethical behavior towards their employees. These practices certainly harmed the productivity of their organization. In 1987, I had my first consulting job in the high-tech industry and taught part-time at the Rotterdam School of Management, focusing on developing innovative personal and business management techniques. After 5 years, I started my own consulting firm serving industrial companies. I also became author of 4 books and 50 articles in the field of technology and reengineering business processes within factories.</p>
<p>     In 2001, I started thinking about people in a more holistic way; about what would make them engaged and more happy at work, as well as, in their private life and spare time, about how to create work-life balance, how to reduce the gap between company life and private life, how to create more enjoyment, love, happiness, and passion at work, how to help executives act in a more ethical manner, how to create a climate of trust and real learning, and how to eliminate fear and distrust. I wanted to turn my experience and passion into something greater &#8211; to humanize companies and to stimulate love, passion, and happiness in organizations. In doing all of this, I knew that greater productivity would then emerge. During this time of inner reflection, I developed my own spirituality &#8211; something had changed within me. I discovered that my higher calling was to help people live a higher quality of life by developing their knowledge of themselves and sharing this with others.</p>
<p>     During this time, I reformulated my dream into this vision&#8221; To live life completely, honestly, and compassionately and to serve the needs of mankind to the best of my ability&#8221; and this related mission &#8220;Enjoy the freedom to develop and share knowledge, especially if this can mean something in the life of others&#8221;. Based on my vision and mission, I wrote 12 books that are translated in various languages in the mean time, and more than 100 articles in leading journals and magazines. My book &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Total-Performance-Scorecard-Redefining-Management/dp/0750677147/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237469220&amp;sr=1-1">Total Performance Scorecard (TPS); Redefining Management to Achieve Performance with Integrity&#8221; </a>was published by Butterworth-Heinemann in the US in 2003. I realized that I wrote the book in order to help humanize companies, to stimulate personal integrity, to enable greater enjoyment and happiness at work, to tackle lack of employee engagement, to develop a happy workforce of committed employees and managers, and to reinforce honesty and trustworthiness in the workplace. My TPS book has received praise from professors at top universities, such as Harvard Business School, Yale School of Management, MIT, University of Michigan, INSEAD, ESADE, IMD, and London Business School.</p>
<p>    TPS became my first international bestselling book and was translated in 22 languages, which changed my life forever. Based on this success, I began to build an international Total Performance Scorecard movement/network in 2004, which has resulted in strategic alliances in many countries. Padmakumar Nair (professor in Organization, Strategy and International Management at the University of Texas School of Management) said the following about this in 2004: &#8220;I am amazed with the fact that the Total Performance Scorecard concept is spreading like gospel. Dr. Hubert Rampersad&#8217;s innovative and pragmatic approach to combine organizational and personal performance agendas into one line of thinking helps organizational participants to come up with tangible solutions to current performance and leadership issues&#8221;. I started to conduct workshops, seminars, and presentations based on TPS for leading companies such as Nokia, Philips Electronics,  and Shell Oil Company and became keynote speaker at numerous conferences.</p>
<p>     Feeling the desire to introduce the TPS process into the United States, in 2006, I decided to move with my family to America in order to establish TPS International Inc. and to launch my new business management concept globally. In the same period I published Managing Total Quality; Enhancing Personal and Company Value (Tata McGraw-Hill). I also published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Balanced-Scorecard-Organizational-Effectiveness/dp/1593115318/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237469220&amp;sr=1-2">&#8220;Personal Balanced Scorecard; The Way to Individual Happiness, Personal Integrity and Organizational Effectiveness</a>&#8221; (Information Age Publishing Inc., USA, 2006) which now has been translated in 20 languages. My related article was awarded in the UK with &#8220;The most outstanding paper&#8221;. Our related Personal Balanced Scorecard Certified Coaching program has been certified by the International Coach Federation (ICF), the world&#8217;s largest coaching organization.</p>
<p>    The title of my other new book is &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/TPS-Lean-Six-Sigma-Blueprint-Performance/dp/1593118252/ref=sr_1_3/187-1161508-2535868?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1237465048&amp;sr=1-3">TPS-Lean Six Sigma; Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma</a>&#8221; (Information Age Publishing Inc., USA, 2007, co-authored by Anwar El-Homsi). Based on this book and the new TPS-Lean Six Sigma brand we have established a new company called TPS-Lean Six Sigma LLC. The title of my latest bestselling book is &#8220;<a href="http://www.infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&amp;p=p49bebb1cdd589">Authentic Personal Branding: A new blueprint for building and aligning a powerful leadership brand&#8217;</a>, that has been published in many languages.</p>
<p>    I am also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Training and Management Development Methods (UK), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Measuring Business Excellence (UK), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the TQM Magazine (UK), member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Knowledge Management Practice in Canada, and editorial advisor to Singapore Management Review and also a member of <a href="http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/cim/gp/person.php?id=45">Marshall Goldsmith&#8217;s prestigious Thought Leader Advisory Board</a> and selected by The Marshall Goldsmith School of Management as one of the 35 distinguished thought leaders in the United States in the field of leadership development. My views on happiness in life &amp; work and on a new blueprint for creating high performance companies were published in <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/careers/content/jun2007/ca20070605_686127.htm?chan=search">BusinessWeek</a> in June 2007.</p>
<p>       Most of my publications are related to employee engagement and how to create love, passion, and happiness within companies. Total Performance Scorecard, Personal Balanced Scorecard, Authentic Personal Branding, and TPS-Lean Six Sigma are now worldwide registered trademarks. Due to this, I have established a global business, with strategic alliances in more than 80 countries, conducting keynote speeches and seminars almost bi-weekly somewhere in the world, and coaching executives in many countries about how to master themselves and to become more ethical and effective. I am also hon. professor at Ural State University in Russia. My Personal Brand evolved organically into something I had not anticipated, namely a crusader for employee&#8217;s and company&#8217;s happiness and empowerment.</p>
<p>       I am living happily with my wife and my two sons in Miami, Florida. My success is based on my higher calling, and my authentic dream in life. I was aware of my Personal Ambition and my Personal Brand and responded to these with love and passion. I had the courage to pursue my dream, have faith in myself, and live according to this dream and my higher calling. I took responsibility for identifying my authentic dream, genius, and brand, and to keep it at the forefront of my mind each day. I knew very clearly what I wanted, asked for it, wished it, dreamed it, formulated it in my Personal Ambition, Personal Brand, and PBSC, fixed it in my mind, visualized it, felt it, allowed it, enjoyed it, accepted my responsibility for everything in my life, determined what to give in return, and gave it all my positive energy. I hope you will do the same.</p>
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