For One Important Professional Moment at a Time
Each Professional Self-Coaching resource is created for one important professional moment. One purpose. One challenge. One outcome. Distilled from the School of WorkLife programmes — a body of work developed through twenty years of practice.
Self-coaching is the method running through every resource here: asking yourself the questions that bring clarity, finding your own answers, and acting on what you learn.
What each resource develops depends on the moment it’s built for. Some moments call on self-coaching itself — guiding yourself through. Some call on self-directing — choosing your path. Some call on self-leadership — taking ownership and carrying yourself through. The moment selects the ability. The way you get there is always the same: you do the work, and the work is yours.
Drawn from Creating Three Fundamental Stories That Define Your Identity
Part of The Art of WorkLife Storytelling Series
These Professional Self-Coaching resources are drawn from the programme Creating Three Fundamental Stories That Define Your Identity — a way of understanding yourself, and letting others understand you, through three fundamental stories: a success, a failure, and a passion. Each resource takes that method into one professional moment, so you tell the stories that reveal not just what you do, but how you think and what you’re for.
Drawn from The Longest Way Round: A Journey of Character
Part of Enhance Your Character Traits Series
These Professional Self-Coaching resources are drawn from the programme: The Longest Way Round: A Journey of Character — a way of recognising, developing and applying the natural character traits that shape who you are and the difference you make through your work. Each resource takes that approach into one professional context, so you develop what is naturally yours with intention, understand the professional impact it creates and extend that impact to the people around you.
All School of WorkLife Resources Are Designed to Strengthen Three Abilities
Self-Coaching
Self-coaching is the ability to guide yourself through every part of your WorkLife journey — through stable times and times of change and uncertainty. It is asking yourself the questions that bring clarity, finding your own answers, and acting on what you learn.
Self-Directing
Self-directing is the ability to choose your own path. It is knowing your values, your motivations and your priorities — and making grounded choices that align with them. Your path is strongest when it is self-defined.
Self-Leadership
Self-leadership is the ability to take ownership of your WorkLife — leading it with intention, integrity and responsibility. It is how you meet your decisions, your transitions and your relationships — in the everyday moments and the defining ones. It is how you carry yourself through it all.
The School of WorkLife Practice
These three abilities are strengthened through a practice built on self-awareness, observation, insightful self-questions, effective self-feedback, and writing your WorkLife stories. Every School of WorkLife resource is designed to develop this practice.
Whatever the moment in front of you, each Professional Self-Coaching resource gives you everything you need to prepare for it — in your own space and time, at your own pace, in your own words.
Explore All Professional Self-Coaching Resources
Work With Me: Commissioned learning resources, speaking engagements, and organisational partnerships
If you think my work would be helpful to others, share it forward.