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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 6

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THE STORIES

Can You Coach Yourself Into Better Professional Relationships? — A Networking Story About What a Coach Would Actually Give You — and How to Give It to Yourself

How Do I Get People to Listen to My Ideas at Work? — A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When Your Ideas Deserve One

How Do I Speak Up in Meetings Without Feeling Like I'm Interrupting? — A Story About Getting a Seat at the Table When You Already Have the Answer

How Leaving Security Behind Reveals Your Origin Story — A Story About Professional Hardship, Authentic Values, and What You’re Willing to Sacrifice

Could Self-Coaching Change Professional Development? — A story about a professional, a question she couldn’t answer and what changes when we learn to direct more of our own development

Creating My Next WorkLife Chapter — What Else Could My Work Become?

What Is WorkLife Storytelling? — Professional Development Through Our Stories — How Experience Becomes Meaning, Learning and Identity

The WorkLife Question: Annie — How Could Story Structure Enhance Experiences?

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

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THE SELF-COACHING RESOURCE

Discover Your True Direction — Professional Self-Coaching for Recognising Where Your Natural Character Traits Truly Belong

Explore → Discover Your True Direction 

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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 5

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THE STORIES 

How Do I Get Clients Without Selling? — A Networking Story About the Conversation He Forgot — and the Client It Brought Him Eight Months Later

How Do I Follow Up After a Networking Event? — A Networking Story About the Email That Sat in Drafts for Three Weeks

How Do I Build Professional Relationships That Last?— A Networking Story About Knowing Everyone Slightly and Nobody Well

How a Non-Fiction Guidebook Develops Courage and Transforms Leadership — A Story About Choosing Vulnerability Over Armour in Crisis — Featuring Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

Self-Coaching When You’re Your Own Boss: Who Challenges Your Thinking? — A story about working for yourself, one seemingly obvious decision and learning to challenge your own thinking

Nine Months to My Next WorkLife Chapter — Prologue: I’ve Been Building a Publishing Practice

Professional Development: Are We Developing The Right Things? — What Happens When The Work Around You Changes?

The WorkLife Question: Leon — What Choice Honours Your Character Traits?

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there is one new Professional Self-Coaching resources this week.

THE RESOURCE

Create Trust and Transform How You Lead — Professional Self-Coaching for Turning Your Natural Character Traits into Leadership Others Rely On

Explore →  Create Trust and Transform Leadership

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 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 4

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THE STORIES

How Do I Introduce Myself at a Networking Event?  — Adaeze’s Cold Coffee, the Stranger Who Answered Differently, and the Thirty Seconds That Decide Whether Anyone Remembers You

What Do I Say After "What Do You Do?" — Tade’s Perfect Answer, the Second Sentence That Never Came, and the Silence That Cost Him Eleven Events

How Do I Network When I Hate Networking? — Ingrid in the Dark Car Park, the Man Who Didn't Work the Room, and the Three Conversations That Beat Thirty Introductions

How Redirecting Your Expertise Helps You Find Your Purpose — A Story About Aiming Your Skills at What Genuinely Matters

Self-Coaching in the Age of AI: Who Is Really Doing the Thinking? — What happens when the technology reshaping your workplace becomes the technology you turn to for help deciding whether to leave it?

Professional Development What Counts as Development?

The WorkLife Question: Mary — How Might Spaces Honour Diverse Character Traits?

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there is one new Professional Self-Coaching resources this week.

THE RESOURCE

Transform Your Professional Impact — Professional Self-Coaching for Recognising and Developing Your Natural Character Traits

Explore →  Transform Your Professional Impact

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 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 3

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THE STORIES

What Is Self-Directing? — Orla’s Crossroads, the Same Notebook and the Practice of Choosing Your Own Path

How Do I Prepare for an Interview in One Day? — One Evening, Twenty-Eight Years of Material and the Three Things Every Interview Turns On

Can You Coach Yourself Through a Job Interview? — What a Coach Actually Does — and the Interview That Proved You Can Do It for Yourself

How to Reclaim Your Happiness When Professional Life Has Quietly Consumed It —A Story About Rediscovering Joy as Essential Fuel for Mental Wellbeing and Meaningful Work

The Stories Behind the Stories: Jon — “The character traits you discover in yourself through developing others can be as significant as the core traits that have always been present.”

The WorkLife Question: Mark — How Could This Setback Redirect You Toward Better Alignment?

The stories above are all free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there are three new Professional Self-Coaching resources this week.

THE RESOURCES

Get the Trust — Professional Self-Coaching for Leadership People Believe In

Explore →Get the Trust

Get the Thinking Across — Professional Self-Coaching for Work That Earns Trust and Referrals

Explore → Get the Thinking Across

Get the Strategic Influence — Professional Self-Coaching for Being Valued as a Strategic Mind, Not Only a Technical One

Explore → Get the Strategic Influence

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 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 2

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THE STORIES

What Is Self-Leadership? — Orla’s First Ninety Days, the Same Notebook and the Practice of Carrying Yourself

How Do I Talk About Failure in a Job Interview? — A Story About One Big Mistake — and the Interview Where Owning It Showed His Measure

Why "What Are the Best Books for Leaders?" Is the Wrong Question — A Story About Leadership, Reading Lists and the Question Beneath the Question

How to Recognise Community-Building as a Character Trait to Transform Your Professional Impact  — A Story About Turning a Natural Gift for Creating Connection Into a Powerful Contribution to Help Teams Thrive

The Stories Behind the Stories: Annie — “Character traits need the right conditions to create their full value. When those conditions are withheld — the traits are still there. But what they’re capable of isn’t visible yet.”

The WorkLife Question: Elena — What Character Traits Could Serve Different Purposes?

The stories above are free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there are two new Professional Self-Coaching resources this week.

THE RESOURCES

Get the Recognition — Professional Self-Coaching for Being Seen for the Value You Create

Explore → Get the Recognition

Get the Partnership — Professional Self-Coaching for Turning Your Expertise Into Genuine Working Relationships

Explore → Get the Partnership

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 

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WorkLife Stories Sunday Edition Episode 1

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THE STORIES

What Is Self-Coaching? — Ten Days, a Notebook and the Practice of Finding Your Own Answers

What Stories Should I Tell in a Job Interview? — A Final Round of Five at the Top of Their Game — and the Man Who Went Looking for What Only He Could Say

How Do I Answer "Tell Me About Yourself”? — The Question Every Interview Opens With — and the Thread That Turns Your Whole Career Into One Answer

How to Discover Your Origin Story When Opportunity Meets Support — A Story About How Unexpected Invitations Revealed Professional Superpowers — and Why Having a Champion Matters

The Stories Behind the Stories: Leon — “Methodical thinking isn't about being slow. It's about being intelligent about where you apply your speed.”

The WorkLife Question: Myra — What strengths do others consistently notice about you?

The stories above all free to listen to. If you'd like to take the work deeper, there are three new Professional Self-Coaching resources this week.

THE RESOURCES

Get the Job — Professional Self-Coaching for Job Interviews

Explore → Get the Job 

Get the Client — Professional Self-Coaching for Networking and Building Professional Relationships

Explore → Get the Client

Get the Seat at the Table — Professional Self-Coaching for Strategic Influence

Explore → Get the Seat at the Table

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