
In this lecture you take one request to refresh the brand and run it through four steps, so you can see whether the name is the problem or the cover for one.
This course is built from six disciplines: brand management, structured research, company culture, organisational development, change management and customer service.
The map of the course
A dictionary for reading lectures from other fields as rebranding work
Three questions to ask after every lecture
A short self-diagnostic that shows which sections to watch first
Download the Rebrand Request Walkthrough and fill in one line after each lecture.
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (1)
Brand director, brand manager and marketing lead — who owns what
The role profile: competencies, indicators, place in the structure
The six layers of a brand, and which of them a reposition actually reaches
Brand equity economics: what you put at risk and what you stand to gain
Tools in this lecture
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Models and methods explained (4)
What a brand audit is: internal and external, five key blocks
A four-hour audit workflow using AI assistants
Competitive analysis, and how AI models describe your brand right now
Brand health metrics: awareness, consideration, net promoter, share of search
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (6)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Models and methods explained (1)
Revisiting mission, vision, values and purpose without discarding your history
Brand architecture: what changes when the parent promise changes
The positioning statement formula and generating alternatives
Naming, if the name is going too: domain, handle and trademark checks
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (15)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (3)
Visual identity: logo, colours, typography, graphics, patterns
Verbal identity: tone of voice, brand vocabulary, do's and don'ts
The brand book and how to keep it alive after launch week
Copyright of generated assets and trademark registration
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (3)
Campaign anatomy: big idea, creative, channels, activation
Generating campaign concepts quickly and choosing between them
Creative production and copywriting for a relaunch
Channel mix: organic, paid, public relations, influencers, partnerships
Tools in this lecture
Ready to use on the slides (7)
Services and apps shown in this lecture (1)
Models and methods explained (4)
The brand metrics framework: awareness, consideration, preference, loyalty
Building a dashboard that shows before and after
Social listening and monitoring mentions inside AI assistants
Brand equity valuation and a ninety-day roadmap
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (5)
Models and methods explained (4)
The role of structured research in a repositioning decision
The most common study formats
Automation tools
Market benchmarks to compare against
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (4)
Satisfaction, loyalty and engagement studies
Experience and value proposition studies
Pulse checks and exit conversations
Cross-group interaction and leadership performance studies
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Models and methods explained (1)
Types of question and how each one biases the answer
Response options and the use of scales
Questionnaire length and open-ended questions
Platforms, and building the questionnaire step by step
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (3)
Models and methods explained (1)
Setting the question the study has to answer
Design choices that affect the response rate
Promoting the questionnaire
Reminders that work without irritating people
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Models and methods explained (3)
Report formats and which sections to include
Choosing chart types that do not mislead
Analysing open-ended answers and text analysis
Preparing recommendations rather than observations
Tools in this lecture
Files to download (4)
Ready to use on the slides (4)
What conclusions the answers actually support
How to plan actions from findings
Interim studies to monitor whether perception is shifting
Closing the loop with the people who answered
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Models and methods explained (2)
What company culture actually is
Whether it can be deliberately created
Why culture decides whether a new promise is believed
How culture appears, with the Netflix case
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Describing employee behaviour and creating rituals
Selecting people who fit and integrating newcomers
Communicating and training on the culture
Leading by example and supporting culture through accountability, with the Miro case
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What you actually want from people after the reposition
Mistakes in the culture description and who to involve
What to do with the previous values rather than pretending they never existed
Vision, mission and values, with the Tesla case
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What corporate rituals are and the power of repetition
Rituals versus discipline, and the typical mistakes
Designing interview questions and using personality tests
Bringing existing employees along, with the Starbucks and Buffer cases
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Physical and digital carriers: posters, site, signatures, internal advertising
Training on the new culture and using every situation to teach it
Building accountability, questionnaires and appraisal
Launch preparation, the launch itself, and how to measure culture, with the Basecamp case
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Transparency, positivity and measurement
Recognition and uniqueness
Listening, and what to do with mistakes
The Starbucks case revisited
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Models and methods explained (2)
What organisational development can and cannot change
Characteristics of the discipline and what its practitioners do
The research-action model and the improvement cycle
The process model, and when to use this approach at all
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Models and methods explained (4)
How to sell the idea internally
Arranging the meeting with management and getting agreement to start
Applying project management tools to the work
Forming the team, and systems thinking
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Models and methods explained (3)
Assessing organisational needs
Assessment options: observation, interviews, questionnaires, data
Needs analysis and reporting
Delivering the feedback so it is heard
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Models and methods explained (1)
The cause-and-effect diagram
How to develop an action plan
Intervention options: individual, group, process, global
An example of a complete action plan
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Models and methods explained (15)
Coaching, mentoring and training
Three-hundred-and-sixty degree assessment and job design
The responsibility matrix and policy writing
Conflict management
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Services and apps shown in this lecture (13)
Models and methods explained (8)
Team options: dialogue, team building, process discussion, facilitation
Process options: total quality management, six sigma, re-engineering, benchmarking
Global options: working across national cultures
Working with virtual and distributed teams
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Models and methods explained (4)
Why evaluation is the step everyone skips
How to measure progress
Calculating the return on organisational development projects
The Kirkpatrick model and the balanced scorecard
Tools in this lecture
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Models and methods explained (4)
The eight-step model of change
The three-phase model
Resistance to change and where it comes from
Fixing the new state in place
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Models and methods explained (2)
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
The name changes, the typeface changes, the promise on the homepage changes. What does not change is the thing a customer meets. Here are 344 tools to change that too: 210 ready-to-use templates, procedures, checklists, question lists and AI prompts, 101 models and methods, 28 services shown on screen and 5 working files.
Open a lecture, take the template, apply it to your own brand this week.
Read this first
Six of the 40 lessons are branding in the narrow sense: audit, positioning, identity, campaign. The other 34 are about the company behind the promise. If you are looking for forty lessons on logo redesign, this course is not that. It is deliberate: rebrands almost never fail at the logo.
How a rebrand actually fails
The same people, the same response times, the same conversation when a customer asks for a refund. Within a quarter the new promise works against you harder than the old one did, because now the gap between what you said and what happens is visible to everyone. A reposition is a claim about future behaviour. The only question that matters is whether the claim is covered.
What changes after this course
You measure what you are before you announce what you will be. You write the new position as a sentence you could defend to a customer. You change the behaviour that has to change: expected conduct, rituals, hiring, service standards, escalation. Then you launch, and you can see whether the perception moved.
What is inside: 344 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
Where the tools are
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
At Wargaming I ran a deep audit of the employer value proposition and found a classic mistake: the company had grown, but its promise had not changed. It had been a startup with a promise about drive; now it was two thousand people and processes, and employees no longer recognised themselves in it. At the same company, people began to leave and leaders assumed the cause was pay, which meant about 10 million dollars a year in raises. I proposed to research it first. The study showed that the real problem was internal communication, not salaries.
How to use the course
Start with the first lecture and its walkthrough. Then go through the blocks in order: the brand, measurement, culture, organisational development, the relaunch and the customer promise. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
Where to start
An unaddressed gap between promise and delivery does not stay the same size: it widens with every new customer. The audit is a day's work and it shows how big the gap is. Enrol now and run it this week.