The Hero Compass

Your professional brand is often an elusive thing — it can be hard to put your finger on what qualities you bring to the equation when you succeed in meaningfully connecting with and helping others. In today’s post, Dean introduces a tool he calls the Hero Compass that can help you begin the process of identifying those Hero qualities in you.

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[Music] okay I got to hit you with something while it’s fresh I just had a really cool concept form out of a coaching session that evolved my understanding of something that I’ve been teaching for a long time for a long time I’ve been teaching magnetism magnetism is just like the Earth which has a north and a South Pole opposites create magnetism with different people Opposites attract well opposites within you create an attraction because there’s something baffling about two opposites in one person my example myself I am dead serious and kind of playful when I go on to a job I am the most serious in the room and I’m also having the most fun those two things almost don’t sound like they fit in the same person but someone who’s strong but sensitive someone who’s a leader who can follow there’s different versions of opposite and you can Define your heroic actions the things that you bring to the table the way you rise to challenges you can Define yourself as as we view it the hero to the people you’re trying to help you can Define yourself through this simple idea of magnetism what came out of a coaching session is we discovered there’s an East and West to this too and they have a function for years I’ve just been seeing the North and South to create magnetism now I discovered there’s an East and West so let me give you this idea this is what came out of the coaching session your north and south are your primary opposites that is the thing that most captures you as you go in to bring magnetism into your circumstances your North and South your East and West are supporting opposites they supplement and augment the North and South and it creates a compass so I’m guessing I’m figuring this out in real time but if my North is dead serious and my South is kind of playful creating that magnetism you know my uh augmenting East and West are that West is I focus on work tangible work problems I focus on business but secretly I’m going to save your life I’m going to work on you personally in the end I’m going to help you in business but I’m going to unveil you I’m going to help you the person at the same time in work outside of work so I am dead serious and kind of playful and and my accentuator are that I’m focused on business legitimacy while bringing in the the personal solutions that help you as a person now we found this because the coaching client we were looking uh working with um you know she she was very very much analytical and also creative so her North and South were highly analytical but very creative and out of the box that created an initial magnetism just like mine serious playful analytical out of the boox creative wow those two create a certain flavor of problem solving and responding um passionately and emotionally so her Compass was analytical creative and her that’s her North and South her East and West were problem solving and emotionally intelligent collectively that creates a a a hero her her hero that she brings to solve other people’s problems is she’s going to be an analytical and creative she’s going to take care of the inner drivers of of your passion while solving problems and that helps her understand her personal brand which I say the heroes brand because you’re doing this to help other people get to better situations so this helped her to navigate certain opportunities she’s looking at different opportunities you know it could might be an initiative that she could sign up for an idea within her job or a new career or or networking events different scenarios and she can compare them to that compass and say two things which are again kind of opposite one is does this serve this Compass will I get to use all of me in this particular job or taking on this particular opportunity or she could look at it the opposite way which would be wow look how different I am compared to the typical person who goes for this job my compass helps show me how I would differentiate myself so I might look at an opportunity for how it fits me the way I am or I might look at how who I am brings differentiation to an opportunity and it led us to drive her in in different directions so I’m really excited about this I want to have you think about it this is your primary your North and South opposite this is your accentuating East and West so what you ultimately end up with is these two opposites like dead serious and playful create my primary Vibe and it’s augmented by being uh very much about business but being very much about you the person see if you can find those for yourselves most important your magnetism is your own primary opposites and then that will be augmented by your secondary opposites to create your Clarity on your personal brand so that you can drive yourself towards opportunities that fit you while also seeing how you can bring your differentiator to opportunities that would never otherwise have someone like [Music] you

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