WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife

Character-Driven WorkLife Stories That Shift How You Think Short, character-driven stories about real WorkLife challenges — how we communicate, lead, make decisions, and navigate what happens at work. Each story shows a moment where something shifts: a conversation changes, an idea lands, a different approach opens up. Working examples you can recognise and use — designed to be useful immediately. The stories explore five themes, each a different lens on the same essential question: How do we create WorkLives that matter? Self-Discovery — understanding what truly matters to you. Book Club Books — learning from the wisdom found in great books. The Art of WorkLife Storytelling — crafting your distinctive narratives. Character Traits — enhancing your natural strengths. Mental Health and Wellbeing — navigating workplace wellbeing challenges.

WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife is a education podcast hosted by Carmel, with 140 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Carmel hosts WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife, a education show with 140 episodes published.

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  Introducing How a Clear Vision Transforms Expertise Into Motivated Abilities

  Aug 19, 20264 min

  Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES: WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: How a Clear Vision Transforms Expertise Into Motivated Abilities How a Clear Vision Transforms Expertise Into Motivated Abilities — a Self-Discovery Story Lesson from School of WorkLife, exploring a real WorkLife moment where a long-held assumption is quietly challenged. Rod is a senior systems architect at the top of his field. He has always believed his expertise is neutral — a set of capabilities that could serve any project equally. It is a reasonable belief, and it has built him a career. It has also left him, fifteen years in, brilliant at work he cannot bring himself to care about. Then a weekend helping his sister set up a community health clinic's systems changes the question — the same skills, pointed at a different purpose, feel like entirely different work. This Story Lesson follows Rod as he separates the abilities that genuinely move him from the ones that merely occupy him, clarifies a vision specific enough to decide by, and brings the two into one direction — where work stops running on discipline and starts generating its own energy. RESOURCES MENTIONED How a Clear Vision Transforms Expertise Into Motivated Abilities — Discover How the Expertise You Already Have Can Come Alive in Service of a Vision That's Genuinely Yours Work With Me : 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 Support the show

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  How Do I Get People to Listen to My Ideas at Work?

  Aug 19, 202611 min

  Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES: WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: How Do I Get People to Listen to My Ideas at Work? How do I get people to listen to my ideas at work is the question every capable person asks after watching a good idea get a polite nod and change nothing — and the answer isn't better ideas. People ignore ideas that arrive as information. An idea that shows them how you think is much harder to ignore. Sam's research was a direct line to the truth, and it changed almost nothing. This is the story of the colleague who made a room lean in, and the three stories Sam found in years of research — the study that was right and ignored, the one woman looking for one button, and the reason he left teaching for this. RESOURCES MENTIONED Get the Seat at the Table — Professional Self-Coaching for Strategic Influence Tell the Three Stories That Turn Your Expertise Into a Voice People Listen To Work With Me : Commissioned learning resources, speaking engagements, and organisational partnerships. Support the show

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  Can You Coach Yourself Into Better Professional Relationships?

  Aug 16, 202610 min

  Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES: WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: Can You Coach Yourself Into Better Professional Relationships? Can you coach yourself into better professional relationships is the question that connects everything at School of WorkLife — and the answer is yes, because what a coach gives you was never the answers. It's the questions, and the accountability to act on what you find. Brendan's technology depended on partnerships he had no idea how to build. This is the story of the coach who was booked solid and rang him anyway, the phone call that sent him to a kitchen table instead of a waiting list, and the three stories he found there — the failure that changed how he works, the success that showed him his own thinking, and the reason there were six years. RESOURCES MENTIONED Get the Client — Professional Self-Coaching for Networking and Building Professional Relationships Tell the Three Stories That Reveal How You Think, What You've Learnt and What Drives Your Work — and Why That Makes People Want to Work With You Work With Me : 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 Support the show

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  Professional Development: Are We Developing The Right Things?

  Aug 15, 20266 min

  Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: Professional Development: Are We Developing The Right Things? Segun works in cybersecurity for a growing technology company. He's highly capable technically, but as his workplace changes, his role changes with it. He begins to discover that some of the development he needs next isn't technical. He knows how to explain a technical problem. What he is beginning to learn is how to help someone else understand what it means for them. This raises a bigger question: Are We Developing The Right Things? And perhaps an even more personal one: What Is Your WorkLife Asking You To Develop Now? RESOURCES The Storytelling Newsletter (Free) Short, focused, and grounded in real WorkLife situations — how we communicate, lead, make decisions, and navigate challenges at work. Work With Me: Commissioned learning resources, speaking engagements, and organisational partnerships. schoolofworklife.com 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 Support the show

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  How Do I Build Professional Relationships That Last?

  Aug 15, 202610 min

  Send us Fan Mail SHOW NOTES: WorkLife Stories from School of WorkLife Episode: How Do I Build Professional Relationships That Last? How do I build professional relationships that last is the question that arrives on the day you discover your network is wide, warm, and strangely useless — and the answer is that you have to stop collecting people and start understanding them. Haruaki had more than a thousand contacts and nobody he could call. This is the story of the one conversation that had ever produced anything — a real question asked at an emptying seminar — and what he changed afterwards. Fifteen relationships out of a thousand names. Fifteen is a network. A thousand is a list. RESOURCES MENTIONED Get the Client — Professional Self-Coaching for Networking and Building Professional Relationships Tell the Three Stories That Reveal How You Think, What You've Learnt and What Drives Your Work — and Why That Makes People Want to Work With You Work With Me : 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 Support the show

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