How can you strengthen your personal brand as a leader? Remember that every interaction counts. You’re always making an impression on others. But is it the impression you want to leave them with? In my latest One Thing You Can Do video, I talk about the power of intention and how building one small habit can amplify your impact as a leader. Need more practical leadership strategies you can start using immediately? Reach out to me about New Lens®.

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Hi, I am Neena Newberry, and in today's One Thing You Can Do video series installment, I'm going to share a tip with you in under two minutes. It's modeled after our New Lens® app, which is full of micro- learning intended to help you develop your leadership skills. Today's topic is how you're showing up. For those of you who have been following me for a while, this is one that I pay a lot of attention to. In fact, I end up coaching a lot of executives on this. Regardless of what level you are in your organization, you really need to think about how you're showing up, and how intentional you're being vs. not being intentional. A lot of times we're so busy, we're running around from thing to thing, and we're not really pausing to think about the impressions that we're leaving as we go.

So one of the questions that I like to ask people to do is to take a minute — actually you could even just take a few seconds — as you're joining a call or a video conference or something else, and just ask yourself, how do I want to show up here? And identify three words or phrases. So maybe that's, “I want to come across as confident, capable, credible” — whatever that looks like. By you taking even just a few seconds to think about that, it will make a big difference in terms of how you show up.

So I really want to encourage you to try this out this week and really try it out personally and professionally. You don't have to restrict this to the workplace. And for more strategies, tools and tips, visit our website at newberrysolutions.com and check out our app, New Lens.