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Ben Melton

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Category Archives: Personal Brand

How to give good feedback

In the content team at Cisco we have a saying: if you’re working on something alone, there’s a problem. We all know the benefits of working collaboratively, how important it is to get different views (or insights, to use some business speak) on a work product. So, very often we’ll be asked to feedback on […]

Posted byBen MeltonAugust 31, 2017Posted inBest Practice, Personal Brand, Personal Development

Speak truth to power

This week Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s former EU ambassador quit. In his resignation letter sent to his staff he spoke about the importance of speaking truth to power. While many in the press have called this a thinly veiled criticism of the government’s Brexit strategy (and it undoubtedly is) it is also an important reminder […]

Posted byBen MeltonJanuary 6, 2017January 12, 2017Posted inBest Practice, Personal Brand, Personal Development

7 books to bring your brain back to brand

If you’re anything like me you’re planning on spending the next couple of weeks full of, let’s say, “Christmas Cheer”. But come January you’re going to have to step back into the office with something vaguely intelligent to say. Here are 7 books that I recommend to get you back fighting fit for your first […]

Posted byBen MeltonDecember 15, 2016December 23, 2016Posted inBlog, Books, Personal Brand, Training

Trust me. I’m a plumber.

In Dave Trott’s excellent book Predatory Thinking he tells a story about a plumber. An elderly man had switched his heating on in winter but the radiators weren’t warming up. For the elderly this can be a serious problem. He called a plumber who looked at the elderly man’s old boiler. He felt around the […]

Posted byBen MeltonNovember 24, 2016February 13, 2017Posted inBrand Management, Personal Brand
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