Professional Development: Self-Discovery in Action — Albert puts what he has learnt about himself to the test as he evaluates career opportunities, questions his assumptions and prepares for an interview, using his values, purpose, vision and motivated abilities to guide his career decisions.
Category Archives: Professional Development
Professional Development: What Is Self-Discovery?
Professional Development: What Is Self-Discovery? Albert begins to question whether his working life reflects what matters most to him. Through his experiences, he discovers how his values, purpose, vision and motivated abilities can help him find his direction.
Professional Development: The Best Thing I Learned Wasn’t on the Course
Professional Development: The Best Thing I Learned Wasn’t on the Course. Raymond discovers that some of his most useful learning has come from having to work things out for himself. His story raises a question worth considering in any WorkLife: what is your working life teaching you?
Professional Development: I Thought It Meant Moving Forward
Professional Development: I Thought It Meant Moving Forward. Briony thought she needed a course to develop her leadership skills, but begins to recognise how much she has already learned through experience. Her story raises a question worth considering in any WorkLife: what have you already learned?
Professional Development What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Who We Are Becoming?
Professional Development: What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Who We Are Becoming? Anthony revisits a familiar working-life story and discovers that its meaning has changed as he has.
Professional Development: How Do We Know When We’ve Changed?
Professional Development: How Do We Know When We’ve Changed? Nancy begins to recognise that some of the most meaningful changes in her working life aren’t captured by qualifications or achievements.
Professional Development What Do We Learn About Ourselves at Work?
Professional Development: What Do We Learn About Ourselves at Work? Christopher discovers that working life can reveal more than what we know — it can show us how we respond, what we value and what we need to develop.
Professional Development: What Happens When Experience Becomes Learning?
Professional Development: What Happens When Experience Becomes Learning? Kim discovers that experience doesn’t automatically become learning. Something changes when we pay attention to what it teaches us.
Why Professional Development Needs Stories.
Levi trusted frameworks, not stories. His competency models could show anyone, precisely, what growth looked like — until he was asked to develop Katherine, and the page that had never failed him did nothing at all. What unlocked her wasn’t a clearer framework. It was a story. And what Levi learned next surprised him more: the same person needs different things at different moments — sometimes a story to break through, sometimes the framework to build on — and the whole art is reading which the moment is asking for. Professional Development Through Our Stories — why the framework tells us what development looks like, and the story tells us what it means.
What Is WorkLife Storytelling?
Niamh has plenty of stories from her working life — stories of success, failure, passion and moments that made people laugh. But when a colleague asks, “What’s the story of your working life?”, she begins to realise that the anecdotes she tells so easily may be only the beginning. What lies beneath them demonstrates Professional Development Through Our Stories — How experience becomes meaning, learning and identity