What a LinkedIn voice profile includes
The voice guide covers six dimensions. Tone: where the person falls between formal corporate and casual conversational, with specific markers from their posts. Vocabulary: words and phrases they use repeatedly, jargon they avoid, how they handle industry terminology. Structure: average post length, paragraph style, use of line breaks, hook patterns, and how they handle CTAs. Content themes: topics they return to, angles they take, opinions they express. Engagement patterns: which post types and topics get the most response from their audience. And a "write like / don't write like" section with annotated examples pulled from their actual posts. The document reads as a reference a writer can keep open while drafting.
Why voice extraction from real posts beats a brand voice workshop
Brand voice documents describe how a person wants to sound. LinkedIn posts show how they actually sound. The gap between the two is where ghostwriting goes wrong: the brief says "authoritative but approachable" and the writer interprets that differently every time. A voice profile built from 20-30 real posts with engagement data captures the specific patterns that make a person's writing recognizable, including habits they would never think to describe in a workshop. The result is a reference document grounded in evidence, not adjectives.