Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Creating Your Own Brand

Given the change in industry from 20th century "Company Man" to "Brand You" (from "The Brand You 50" by Tom Peters) there's a huge need to teach students about PoWeR Skills to navigate a complex career world: collaborating, building relationships, and creating your own brand to sell yourself will be essential. Knowing how to 'perform' and how to constantly sell your work will be essential skills for our students. This website is pretty rad: http://www.tompeters.com/
Peters gives tons of tips that could be croswalked with language arts especially. It has a lot of personal marketing strategies that could easily be utilized as common core language arts activities. Stuff like, create an ad for yourself, for example. check it out.

2 comments:

  1. For some unknown reason, most of us wait until some traumatic experience occurs, or we hit rock bottom in our lives, before we turn to prayer. Our motto seems to be, "When all else fails, pray!"

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