Before you think about your “platform” to share your ideas with the world, take a step back. Where are you developing and testing those ideas? What are your private spaces to think and be challenged?
Reflection is important. If you want to lead with your thinking, you have to be willing to reflect on the raw, messy shared experience of this pandemic year. What have you learned? What shifts have you seen?
Gathering inspiration and brainstorming new ideas is an important part of the thought leadership process. But your real superpower is in refining. Here’s how I find focus to deliver simple, powerful ideas.
Here’s my big takeaway from this year: Thought leadership is the long-term, disciplined practice of building your perch. Stone by stone, you lay the foundation, and it pays off over time.
How I became a thought leadership consultant, and what I actually do (hint: dig up the best ideas).
I’m celebrating ONE YEAR of working solo. Even though it’s been an unexpected year, I have been truly grateful to take on 2020 as my own boss. Here’s what I’ve learned in my first year.
When you’re uninspired or have a case of the blahs, try putting yourself in the way of new ideas. Say yes.
All of the nuance we’re facing can be exhausting. We look for black-and-white answers, but there aren’t any. How can we build our nuance muscle?
Are you there? Make sure your customers know that you are — and tell them what you’re working on, what you’re thinking about, and what conversations you want to keep going.
I used to treasure the “margins” in my day. I carved out time alone to think and brainstorm. I needed a lot of headspace. That’s not a reality I can achieve during the pandemic, but I’m getting better at finding the space for creative thinking and deep work, even if it’s in fits and starts.
Turn your big ideas into a book proposal or manuscript.
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