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School of WorkLife Advent Calendar Day 2 Creative Values: Overcoming Creative Blocks Advent Special: £25 (Usually £100) — Today Only

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School of WorkLife Advent Calendar Day 1 Values Alignment Career Transition Guide Advent Special: £25 (Usually £100) — Today Only

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Your Weekly WorkLife Curated Digest of Insightful, Inspiring and Practical Lessons. Each Sunday, discover curated career development resources from across the School of WorkLife collections—designed to spark reflection, inspire growth, and support your ongoing WorkLife learning. These resources are designed as effective learning experiences—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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When your work feels disconnected from genuine community, you don't have to choose between professional effectiveness and meaningful connection. Follow Aisling's WorkLife Book Club journey as diverse professionals discover that shared reading of The Inner Game of Tennis develops essential bonds in ways traditional networking cannot. Learn to identify connection opportunities, extract workplace applications from literary insights, and cultivate "narrative intelligence" that transforms both individual effectiveness and organisational culture. This course is designed as an effective learning experience—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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The irony wasn't lost on him. In trying to be helpful to everyone, he was becoming less effective for anyone—including himself. His own projects were suffering from the constant interruptions. His team members weren't developing independence because they knew Joe would step in. His personal life was shrinking to accommodate his professional life. And his wellbeing was eroding under an ever-expanding list of professional obligations that weren't even his own.
The Boundaries Wellbeing Foundation tells Joe's story—a journey from boundary-less over-accommodation to strategic helpfulness through learning to say no. His transformation reveals how protecting limits safeguards the physical and emotional wellbeing that makes genuine professional excellence and meaningful relationships sustainable.

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Professional Development Question Bank Collection For Coaches, Facilitators and Leaders. Insightful Resources Supporting Every School of WorkLife Professional Development Course. Each containing 200+ ready-to-use questions designed to open, deepen, and guide meaningful conversations.

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Your Weekly WorkLife Curated Digest of Insightful, Inspiring and Practical Lessons. Each Sunday, discover curated career development resources from across the School of WorkLife collections—designed to spark reflection, inspire growth, and support your ongoing WorkLife learning. These resources are designed as effective learning experiences—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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Fiction for Professional Development Templates: Develop Professional Capabilities Through Literary Engagement. Your professional effectiveness depends on capabilities not easily accessed through traditional training—your character traits—such as empathy, ethical reasoning, perspective-taking, complex thinking and much more. Reading fiction naturally cultivates these qualities, but translating narrative insights into professional capabilities to meet workplace challenges requires an intentional approach. This series of immediately actionable templates helps you harness fiction's developmental power. Each template addresses a specific aspect of literary learning and connects it to character trait development.

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Free Fiction for Professional Development Toolkits. Discover How Stories Illuminate Your Professional Journey. Fiction helps you understand yourself, clarify values, and navigate professional challenges through narrative. Five free toolkits to help you use fiction for storytelling, character development, book club discussions, self-discovery, and wellbeing.

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When your work feels disconnected from your deeper purpose, you don't have to choose between professional excellence and meaningful impact. Follow two professionals' journeys—one discovering purpose for the first time, another finding their way back to what they'd always known. Learn to recognise purpose signals, navigate transitions with clarity, and transform expertise to serve your deeper calling. This course is designed as an effective learning experience—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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