Speaking up rather than cowering in silence for fear of an awkward conversation takes courage, but you owe that to yourself and your boss.
Author Archives: Carmel O' Reilly
How Can You Move to the Next Stage of Your WorkLife After Redundancy?
The moral of this story: There is life after redundancy, and with creative thinking and strategic planning, you can move to the next stage of your WorkLife and with a renewed zest for life.
How to Take The Cork Out of the Bottle of Something You Want to Release
Whatever you want to do, there is a clear path to it, and once you understand those steps, it becomes much more intuitive, and perhaps it even gives you the courage to get started. Because that’s what you need most, the courage to get started. The courage to take the cork out of the bottle.
Good Times and Bad Times Bring About Great Resignations
If I can do it, so can you, and you never know where your new WorkLife chapter will lead you, and what doors and opportunities will open along the way.
Why Bizarre Interview Questions Are Asked and How to Handle Them
The first trick of asking questions is to determine if your question is a good one. Just because a question has never been asked does not make it good. Smart people have been asking questions for quite a few centuries now, so many of the questions that haven’t been asked are bound to yield some uninteresting answers.
Why Are Speculative Job Approaches Important and Do They Work? Part 2
The stories I write are based on real WorkLife challenges, obstacles and successes. In some stories, I share my own experiences, and with permission, stories of people I’ve worked with, whose names have been changed to protect their anonymity. Other persons and companies portrayed in the stories are not based on real people or entities.
Why Are Speculative Job Approaches Important and Do They Work? Part 1
Therein lies my case that speculatively approaching organisations for work is important. It can help you get onto their radar to be considered for a position when a role becomes available. And so, yes, speculative job approaches do actually work.
How to Learn Through Reading Fiction Books: Inspector Montalbano
Andrea Camilleri began writing Detective Fiction in his late sixties. There is much of his truth, beliefs and values in the books.
How to Learn Through Reading Non-Fiction Books: A Spy Among Friends
I get a greater sense of the real or true story from different perspectives. That’s enlightening and helps develop my power of self-awareness and observation.
Body Language Speech Patterns and the 7/38/55 Principle in WorkLife Interactions
“What you do doesn’t depend on you – it depends on the other fellow.” Sanford Meisner