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In Personal Branding: Stand Out and Succeed, you’ll explore how the branding strategies used by top-brands can inform your own personal brand, one that’s authentically you. Define what a brand is, and explore the overlap between branded products and personal branding in this 4-week course. You’ll reflect on your core values, and translate them into an elevator pitch, brand imagery, and brand story. Taught by world-class faculty from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, this course provides a foundational understanding of how to create and refine your brand to help you achieve your personal and professional goals, regardless of where you are in your career.
Your instructors, Cheri Alexander and Marcus Collins, introduce themselves and share with you an overview of the course. During this introductory week, you will be exposed to essential concepts related to branding. These include understanding the definition and historical context of brand, exploring brand effects, and gaining insights into the frameworks that can be employed for brand analysis. To fully comprehend personal branding, the instructors will initially build your knowledge around product branding to give you a baseline understanding of key branding concepts.
Activity: Breaking Down Your Favorite Brand •2 minutes
Debrief: Breaking Down Your Favorite Brand•2 minutes
Which Brand is Better? •3 minutes
Our Brand Pyramid Framework •7 minutes
Brand Ideology •5 minutes
Debrief: Using the Brand Pyramid •2 minutes
The RED Framework •12 minutes
Activity: Analyzing Your Favorite Brand •2 minutes
Debrief: Analyzing Your Favorite Brand•2 minutes
Week 1 Coffee Chat •3 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Personal Branding: Stand Out and Succeed Syllabus•10 minutes
Optional Resources•10 minutes
Help Us Learn About You!•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Week 1 Quiz •10 minutes
2 app items•Total 60 minutes
Activity: Using the Brand Pyramid •30 minutes
Activity: Analyzing Your Favorite Brand •30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 15 minutes
Activity: Personal Goals •5 minutes
Activity: Breaking Down Your Favorite Brand •10 minutes
Week 2: People as Brands
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
In Week 2, Cheri and Marcus delve into how we can relate product brands to personal brands. To better understand how great brands have clear values and authenticity, you will explore a series of mini case studies of people who have left an impact on the world. You will then practice analyzing personal brands with the RED Framework, which you learned about at the end of Week 1 of the course. By going through the process of brand analysis, you will start identifying key traits that constitute a strong and authentic brand.
Activity: Analyze Your Role Model with the RED Framework •1 minute
Debrief: Analyze Your Role Model Using the RED Framework•2 minutes
Real Life Example of a Strong Brand: Zingerman's •30 minutes
Activity: Analyzing the Zingerman's Brand•1 minute
Week 2 Coffee Chat •3 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Week 2 Quiz •10 minutes
3 app items•Total 90 minutes
Activity: Role Model Reflection•30 minutes
Activity: Perceiving Others•30 minutes
Activity: Analyze Your Role Model with the RED Framework•30 minutes
2 discussion prompts•Total 20 minutes
Role Model Share-Out •10 minutes
Activity: Analyzing the Zingerman's Brand•10 minutes
Week 3: You as a Brand
Module 3•2 hours to complete
Module details
In Week 3, you will be guided through two reflection activities (a Core Values Sort and a Reflected Best Self analysis). In the Core Values Sort, you will discover which of your values are most important to you and incorporate those values into your own personal brand. In the Reflected Best Self analysis, you will reach out to those close to you and gain insights into how they perceive you when you are at your best. By hearing the perspectives of others, you will pinpoint characteristics that you have that are foundational to your authentic brand. Note that this module may take longer than a week to complete.
What's included
10 videos3 readings1 assignment2 app items
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10 videos•Total 29 minutes
Introduction to Week 3 •2 minutes
Values as the Foundation of Your Brand •2 minutes
Activity: Sanger Value Sort •1 minute
Reflected Best Self •3 minutes
Activity: Examples of Your Best Self •4 minutes
Cheri's Best Self •2 minutes
Knowing Yourself •6 minutes
What is a Story? •4 minutes
Activity: What Makes You Distinctive? •2 minutes
Week 3 Coffee Chat •3 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Activity: Sanger Value Sort •10 minutes
Activity: Reflected Best Self•10 minutes
Knowing Yourself •10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Week 3 Quiz •10 minutes
2 app items•Total 60 minutes
Activity: Examples of Your Best Self•30 minutes
Activity: What Makes You Distinctive? •30 minutes
Week 4: Reinventing & Retuning
Module 4•2 hours to complete
Module details
In Week 4, we will bring all of the concepts that you have learned throughout the course in two final activities: designing your brand logo and creating your brand story. Now that you have an understanding of your core values and characteristics from Week 3, you will be able to design a visual representation of your personal brand and craft a brand story about what makes you stand out from a crowd.
What's included
8 videos1 reading1 assignment2 app items
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8 videos•Total 23 minutes
Introduction to Week 4 •2 minutes
Cheri's Personal Brand Drawing •1 minute
Marcus' Personal Brand Collage •3 minutes
Activity: Designing Your Brand Logo•4 minutes
Marcus' Personal Brand •2 minutes
Activity: Creating Your Brand Story •4 minutes
Living Your Brand •4 minutes
Week 4 Coffee Chat •3 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Post Course Survey•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 10 minutes
Week 4 Quiz •10 minutes
2 app items•Total 90 minutes
Activity: Creating Your Brand Story•30 minutes
Activity: Designing Your Brand Logo•60 minutes
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