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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.
Every episode is complete and free to listen.
Each story connects to a full Story Lesson — a deeper, structured resource with frameworks, reflection, and practical application.
And for those who want to go deeper still, Story Lessons connect to Guided Programmes — comprehensive learning journeys available at School of WorkLife.
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New: The Evelyn Practice: How to Develop Systems Thinking and Solve Complex WorkLife Problems Online Live Class
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SHOW NOTES
The Evelyn Practice: How to Develop Systems Thinking and Solve Complex WorkLife Problems is the newest School of WorkLife Book Club online live class. It draws on Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — and a framework exploring what systems thinking actually asks of us, not when problems are obviously connected, but in the moments when they keep returning and complicating each other in ways that solving them individually never quite resolves.
It's a class for anyone who has ever fixed a problem — and watched the same problem come back somewhere else.
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Hello,
It's Carmel from School of WorkLife.
I want to tell you about a new live online class.
It begins with something I think many people in professional life will recognise.
You're dealing with a set of problems that each look manageable on their own.
Each one has a logical explanation.
Each one has a straightforward fix.
But every solution seems to create new problems somewhere else.
And gradually, something becomes clear.
The problems are not separate.
And solving them one by one is no longer enough.
That's where Mike's story begins.
He's a highly respected operations manager — known for solving problems quickly, efficiently, and reliably under pressure.
But the same pattern keeps repeating.
Every solution creates two new problems somewhere else.
And he's beginning to realise he isn't dealing with separate crises.
He's dealing with a system he hasn't yet learned to see.
The Evelyn Practice: How to Develop Systems Thinking and Solve Complex WorkLife Problems is the newest School of WorkLife Book Club class. It draws on Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — and a framework exploring what systems thinking actually asks of us, not when problems are obviously connected, but in the moments when they keep returning and complicating each other in ways that solving them individually never quite resolves.
It's a class for anyone who has ever fixed a problem — and watched the same problem come back somewhere else.
You'll find the details for how to sign up to the class in the show notes and at www.schoolofworklife.com
Thank you for listening.