LinkedIn for Baby Boomer Lawyers

Baby boomers (those of us born between 1946 and 1964) make up a large portion of today’s senior-level workforce. We have earned our reputation and insights from decades of experience, much of which was spent catching up with the speed of technological change: social media, and LinkedIn in particular. It’s often difficult for many boomers to talk about ourselves, after being raised, in broad generational terms, not to.

Once we give ourselves the permission to demonstrate WHY our accomplishments are meaningful in our LinkedIn career narrative, a great first step, we still tend to shortchange and miss the narrative opportunities LinkedIn provides. The speaker, a boomer himself, has coached hundreds of professionals in his age bracket to employ best practices, often at odds with their comfort zone, all designed to encourage them to exceed their comfort zones with their specific brand marketing needs in mind.

This session will address why boomer lawyers need to be active on LinkedIn, how to explore their brand telling “why I do what I do” and how to ask others to comment “how well” they do their “why.” Our goal: portray our best attributes and earned skills, so others will choose to engage with us vs. the competition. Time will be allocated at the end for Q&A.

Agenda:
  • Intro/Background to Boomer Tech Strengths/Weaknesses
  • Thinking Differently as Boomer in 2024
  • Answering “Why Do You Do What You Do”
  • Thinking Differently About Expressing Your “Why”
  • Branding Yourself
  • “The Start-up of You” as a Reference Text
  • Best Practices: LinkedIn Profile Components
  • Connection Strategies
  • Tactics for Posting and Commenting
  • Wrapping-up
  • Review of Main Take-aways
  • Q&A
Topics covered include: Legal Marketing
Duration of this webinar: 90 minutes
Originally broadcast: November 20, 2024 10:00 AM PT
Speaker
Marc W. Halpert
Marc W. Halpert LinkedIn Trainer, Coach and Marketing Consultant

Marc W. Halpert is a recognized LinkedIn expert with over 14 years' experience helping business professionals around the world as a:

  • Trainer: teaching self-marketing and branding strategies to tech firms, professional service firms, and business associations who need to be “amazing-er” on LinkedIn, i.e., at the top of their current market, eclipsing the competition.
  • Personal coach: his professional clients learn to recount why their past success reinforces who they are today, and where they can take clients in the future, in ways they were never taught or feel they cannot adequately express and need that extra coaching nudge.
  • Consultant: adding the power of LinkedIn to marketing for conferences, events, trips, and ad hoc projects to attract qualified candidates from the LinkedIn database.
  • LinkedIn self-branding thought leader: frequent podcast guest, author of 2 books (one for the American Bar Association in second edition), scores of articles, press source, quoted in blogs and ezines, and blogger with over 2600 posts, one appearing every business day.
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