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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 15

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THE STORIES

Can I Coach Myself Into Being Understood? — A Story About Working Out, on Your Own, Why Your Expertise Isn’t Landing

How Do I Turn One Project Into a Relationship? — Henrik’s Admired Gardens, the Referral Call That Wasn't a Job, and the Line That Explained His Career

Nothing Went Wrong. So Why Didn't It Go Anywhere?— Jacqui’s Spotless Record, the Question She Couldn't Answer, and What a Flawless Career Can Quietly Cost

How a Management Book Develops Coaching Capacity and Transforms Leadership — A Story About Questions, Curiosity, and Non-Fiction That Builds What Advice Prevents

Self-Coaching Through Speaking — Finding Your Voice and Putting Your Ideas Into The World

Walking Into My Next WorkLife Chapter for Good Physical and Mental Wellbeing — Living in the Present While Preparing for the Future: Making Space for the Simple Things

 Professional Development: Self-Discovery in Action— Using Your Values, Purpose, Vision and Motivated Abilities to Make Career Choices

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How the Values Integration Challenge Redefines Professional Success — A Story About Aligning Personal Beliefs with Professional Demands

Explore → How the Values Integration Challenge Redefines Professional Success

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Choose What You Prevent — Professional Self-Coaching for Redirecting Your Expertise Toward What You Value Most

Explore →  Choose What You Prevent — Professional Self-Coaching for Redirecting Your Expertise Toward What You Value Most

Book Club Books

Every fiction and non-fiction book featured in the Book Club Books stories, with links to the stories and podcast episodes for each one.

Explore → The Reading List for WorkLife Learning 

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

Keep writing your WorkLife story.

Carmel 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition — Welcome

A short weekly guide to the stories on my daily podcast, WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife. Each Sunday Edition begins with a personal note, then introduces the week’s stories in a few lines, so you can choose the ones that speak to you.

Listen to the full stories on WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 14

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THE STORIES

Why Does My Expertise Feel Wasted? — A Story About What Happens When Your Judgement Never Reaches the Room

My Work Is Good. So Why Am I Replaceable? — Sinata’s Strong Portfolio, the Pitches She Kept Losing, and the Dead End That Changed Everything

How Do I Get Clients to See How I Think? — Monye’s Clean Answers, the Real Questions No One Saw, and the Afternoon He Sent More Than They Asked For

How Vision Turns Your Motivated Abilities Into Authentic Leadership — A Story About Discovering That the Way You Naturally Work With Others Is Already the Way You Lead

Self-Coaching Through Writing — Thinking Your Way Through Your Own Words

Postcards from Exploring WorkLife: People Who Give Forward — "Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers Lest They Be Angels in Disguise" — the store's motto, above the reading library

Seven Months to My Next WorkLife Chapter — Forward, Back and Standing Still

Professional Development: What Is Self-Discovery? — Understanding Your Values, Purpose, Vision and Motivated Abilities

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How a Values Conflict Changes Your Professional Direction — A Story About Recognising When Success Contradicts Your Core Beliefs

Explore → How a Values Conflict Changes Your Professional Direction

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Know What You Stand For — Professional Self-Coaching for Aligning Your Work with What You Value Most

Explore → Know What You Stand For — Professional Self-Coaching for Aligning Your Work with What You Value Most.

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

Keep writing your WorkLife story.

Carmel

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 13

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THE STORIES

How Do I Become More Than a Service to My Clients? — A Story About Being Brought Into the Thinking, Not Just Given the Task

How Do I Get My Team to Take Ownership? — A Story About What Happens When You Stop Catching Every Problem Yourself

How Do I Get My Team to Care the Way I Do? — A Story About Leading Through Authority and Wondering Why No One Shares the Purpose

How Treating Yourself With Kindness Restores the Happiness That Self-Criticism Takes Away — A Story About Discovering That Self-Compassion Is the Foundation of Both Joy and Genuine Excellence

Self-Coaching Through Reading — What Someone Else’s Story Can Help You See About Your Own Working Life

12 Rooms of a WorkLife Room 2 — Finding My People

Professional Development: The Best Thing I Learned Wasn’t on the Course — It happened when I had to work out what to do for myself

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How Professional Impact Deepens When Values and Expertise Converge — A Story About Integrating Professional Skills with Personal Convictions

Explore → How Professional Impact Deepens When Values and Expertise Converge

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Build What You Believe In — Professional Self-Coaching for Designing Work That Reflects Your Values

Explore → Build What You Believe In

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 12

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THE STORIES

Can I Coach Myself Into Being Seen? — A Story About Learning to Recognise Your Own Value — and Letting It Be Seen

How Do I Get My Team to Start Thinking With Me? — A Story About the Difference Between Being Followed and Being Trusted

How Do I Get My Team to Speak Up? — A Story About Leading People Who Only Ever Wait to Be Told

How to Recognise Heritage Preservation as a Character Trait to Lead Change That Lasts — A Story About Turning a Natural Instinct to Honour What Endures Into a Powerful Contribution to Wiser Organisational Change

Can Self-Coaching Help Us See What We Already Know? — An author’s story about looking back at years of writing, recognising what experience has taught her and discovering what happens when she asks herself different questions.

What Happens When Retirement Isn't Enough? — What If Retirement Isn't a Door That Closes, But One You Can Choose to Open Again?

Professional Development: I Thought It Meant Moving Forward — Then I realised I needed to stop and look at what I was already doing

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How Asking What Makes You Happy Transforms Professional Decisions When Answers Conflict — A Story About What Happens When Different Kinds of Happiness Don't Align

Explore → How Asking What Makes You Happy Transforms Professional Decisions When Answers Conflict

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Let Your Values Lead — Professional Self-Coaching for Moving from Success to Significance by Guiding Your Expertise with What You Value

Explore → Let Your Values Lead 

PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE 

The Questions That Help Managers Coach Themselves — A story about how insightful questions can turn everyday working experience into a source of self-coaching 

Published by Employee Experience Magazine

Read → The Questions That Help Managers Coach Themselves

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

Keep writing your WorkLife story.

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 11

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THE STORIES

Why Do I Keep Getting Passed Over for Promotion? — A Story About Being Seen for What You Actually Do Before the Decision Is Made

How Do I Turn a Client Into a Partner? — A Story About Asking Instead of Showing

How Do I Pass On What I Know? — A Story About Handing On Experience So It Actually Reaches Someone

How Seeing Differently Reveals Your Origin Story — A Story About Cross-Industry Experience: How Your Unique Perspective Becomes Your Professional Breakthrough

Self-Coaching A Practice for Everyday Working Life — A story about noticing, questioning and learning from our experience as we work

How Do I Build a WorkLife in Which I Get to Keep Doing the Work I Love and Make It Financially Sustainable?

Professional Development: What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Who We Are Becoming?

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THE STORY LESSON

How Vision and Motivated Abilities Unite Your Multiple Interests — A Story About Discovering How Seemingly Unrelated Capabilities Serve One Coherent Purpose

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THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Focus Your Strengths Where They Matter — Professional Self-Coaching for Doing Your Best Work Through Your Natural Character Traits

Explore → Focus Your Strengths Where They Matter

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

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Carmel

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 10

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THE STORIES

Why Does My Work Go Unnoticed? — A Story About Being Seen for the Value You've Been Creating All Along

Why Do Clients Take My Work and Never Come Back? — A Story About the Difference Between Delivering Work and Being Worth Returning To

How Do I Get People to Really Listen to Me? — A Story About What Makes People Lean In Rather Than Sit Politely

How a Psychology Book Develops Productive Disagreement and Transforms Collaboration — A Story About Building Collective Intelligence Through Non-Fiction

Self-Coaching: What Does It Actually Mean to Coach Yourself?

Eight Months to My Next WorkLife Chapter — A month into my nine-month experiment, the next chapter of my WorkLife is beginning to take shape.

Professional Development: How Do We Know When We've Changed? 

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How Vision and Motivated Abilities Survive When Your Industry Doesn't — A Story About Discovering That Your Deepest Capabilities Were Never Owned by the Job That Held Them

Explore → How Vision and Motivated Abilities Survive When Your Industry Doesn’t

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Prove the Value You Create — Professional Self-Coaching for Showing That Your Natural Character Traits Are Worth the Investment

Explore → Prove the Value You Create

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

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Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 9

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THE STORIES

Can You Coach Yourself Into Being Heard at Work? — A Story About Turning Vague Advice Into Something You Can Actually Do

I'm Good at My Job — So Why Do I Feel Stuck? — A Story About the Restlessness That Means You've Outgrown Your Frame

How Do I Get Recognised at Work Without Bragging? — A Story About Making Your Value Seen Without Ever Having to Sell Yourself

How a Clear Vision Transforms Expertise Into Motivated Abilities — A Story About Discovering How Existing Technical Abilities Can Serve a Completely Different Vision

Why Self-Coaching Is Becoming an Essential WorkLife Skill — What happens when your working life changes — and nobody can tell you exactly what comes next?

Postcards from Exploring WorkLife: The Space Between the Doing — A Habit, a Boundary, and a Time to Dream and Scheme

Professional Development: What Do We Learn About Ourselves at Work? — How Work Reveals Who We Are

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THE STORY LESSON

How Vision and Motivated Abilities Brought His Two Selves Together — Story Lesson — A Story About Discovering That Your Personal and Professional Identity Were Never Meant to Be Separate

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THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Stand Firm Under Pressure — Professional Self-Coaching for Holding to Your Natural Character Traits When You're Told to Be Someone Else

Explore → Stand Firm Under Pressure

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

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 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 8

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THE STORIES

How Do I Turn My Technical Work Into Influence? —  A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When Your Work Speaks and You Don’t

Am I More Than My Job Title? — A Story About Recognising the Bigger Work You're Already Doing

How Do I Show My Value at Work? — A Story About Making Your Real Contribution Visible to the People Who Matter

How Boundaries Protect the Happiness That Makes Both Work and Life Sustainable — A Story About Discovering That Limits Are Not Restrictions, but Where Joy Lives

Self-Coaching When Other People's Perspectives Drown Out Your Own — A story about seeking different perspectives, asking better questions and learning to trust your own thinking

12 Rooms of a WorkLife: Room 1 — When the Room Wasn't Right — Learning From the Moment When the Work Was Right, But the Conditions Weren’t

Professional Development: What Happens When Experience Becomes Learning? — Sometimes an Experience Only Becomes Development When We Stop and Ask What It Changed In Us

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THE STORY LESSON

How Vision and Motivated Abilities Helped Overcome Impostor Syndrome - Story Lesson— A Story About Discovering That Self-Doubt Is Often a Signal of Misalignment, Not Inadequacy

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THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Shape the Culture Around You — Professional Self-Coaching for Building Connection and Collaboration Through Your Natural Character Traits

Explore → Shape the Culture Around You

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The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

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 schoolofworklife.com 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 7

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THE STORIES

Why Am I Never Asked What I Think? — A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When Your Work Is Already in the Room

Why Does My Expertise Get Ignored? — A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When You Can See What the Room Can't

How Do I Make My Boss See My Value?  — A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When You've Earned It and Nobody Has Noticed

How to Recognise Curiosity as a Character Trait That Defines Your Deepest Contribution — A Story About Turning a Natural Gift for Questioning Into the Wisdom to Work at Your Best

Self-Coaching: The Difference Between Thinking and Thinking Well — A story about getting stuck in our thinking and learning to question the way we think

What Does Longevity Mean for WorkLife? — What If Retirement Isn’t the End of Working, But the Beginning of Working Differently?

Why Professional Development Needs Stories — The Frameworks Tell Us What Development Looks Like — Stories Tell Us What It Means

The WorkLife Question: Jon — How Do You Guide Authentic Trait Recognition?

The stories above are are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there's a new Story Lesson and a new Professional Self-Coaching resource this week.

THE STORY LESSON

How Vision Turns Your Motivated Abilities Into Authentic Leadership 

Explore → How Vision Turns Your Motivated Abilities Into Authentic Leadership

THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Thrive Through Change — Professional Self-Coaching for Adapting Through Your Natural Character Traits Without Losing What Makes You Effective

Read and Listen → Thrive Through Change 

Work With Me: Individual WorkLife Coaching, Commissioned Learning Resources, Speaking Engagements and Organisational Partnerships.

The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles, failures and successes. Persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.

Carmel O’ Reilly
 schoolofworklife.com 

Wishing you a good WorkLife week.

Remember: Every working life is a story. Some chapters are told. Some are waiting to be.

Keep writing your WorkLife story.

Carmel