Building a thought leadership strategy on LinkedIn
How to design a LinkedIn thought leadership strategy for a B2B executive that survives the year. A practical sequence for picking a position, building recurring insights, and operating the cadence.
Pick the position before the topics
Most thought leadership programs start by listing topics. That produces a content calendar but not a position. Start instead with the question: what does this leader want to be known for in 18 months?
The position should be specific enough that someone who reads three posts can describe it in a sentence. Vague positions produce posts that anyone could have written.
Build recurring insights, not a content calendar
Recurring insights are the connected threads the leader returns to over months. Each post adds another piece. The thread keeps the program from collapsing into a stream of unrelated takes.
Heyoo customers typically run a six-month arc per leader, refreshed quarterly. The arc is what makes a year of posts feel like one body of work.
Operate the cadence around the executive's time
Two posts per week is the band most executives can sustain when the workflow is right. The workflow has to keep the executive's time under thirty minutes per post.
Above that threshold, executives miss weeks at a time. Below it, the cadence holds.
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