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.
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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
Professional Development Are We Developing the Right Things?
Professional Development Are We Developing The Right Things? Segun is good at what he does. But as his workplace changes, he begins to discover that some of the development he needs next isn’t technical. His story raises a question for any WorkLife: what is your WorkLife asking you to develop now?
Professional Development What Counts As Development?
Professional Development: What Counts as Development? Bada knows she is developing as an architect, but begins to notice that some of the most important changes in her working life are harder to measure. Her story raises a question worth considering in any WorkLife: what counts as development?