Carmel O' Reilly's Blog, page 18

Exploring Parts Unknown Both Out In The World and Inside Ourselves

The idea behind the initiative is to empower people to flourish in and out of the workplace by providing personal and professional growth opportunities. The purpose is to elevate people to new perspectives to cultivate diverse and inclusive environments, and to create great workplaces that work for all.

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Keep Your Values Aligned With Your WorkLife

As a teenager, Jimmy had defined his values. This helped him choose the best course of study to enable a WorkLife where he was motivated, fulfilled and happy. His values have guided him ever since to live his WorkLife with purpose, passion and pride. Until, lately, when something changed.

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2 Simple Assignments To Keep Your WorkLife Aligned To Your Values

As a teenager, Jimmy had defined his values. This helped him choose the best course of study to enable a WorkLife where he was motivated, fulfilled and happy. His values have guided him ever since to live his WorkLife with purpose, passion and pride.
Until, lately, when something changed.

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Ideas Just The Beginning 13 Traits That Founders Should Possess

While I walk the talk in living my WorkLife true to enhancing my core character traits, some of which are thankfully among the above. There are many of these character traits that don’t come as naturally to me. I need to work on developing these.

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The Suspense Factor: Keep Your Professional Story Compelling

The Suspense Factor isn't just for thrillers - it's a powerful tool for telling your professional journey. The most compelling WorkLife stories don't need dramatic explosions or life-or-death stakes. They simply need to matter deeply to their protagonist. Your job as a storyteller is to take your audience from point A to point B in the most interesting way possible.

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Create Suspense in Your Storytelling

You will need to have multiple subplots to engage your audience throughout your story, but the central storyline question that’s going to keep your audience engaged is:… And Then What Happened? 
There is an implicit promise that you will answer this question (at varying paces), to sustain interest.

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3 Ways To Create Suspense in Your Storytelling

You will need to have multiple subplots to engage your audience throughout your story, but the central storyline question that’s going to keep your audience engaged is:… And Then What Happened? 
There is an implicit promise that you will answer this question (at varying paces), to sustain interest.

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3 Simple Lessons in Learning to Love Your WorkLife

Maintaining good morale, his own and other people’s is one of Reggie’s core characteristics that has driven his WorkLife. And one that he can attribute to wartime and learning taken from Ralph, an American serviceman stationed in Britain, who Reggie got to know over a fish and chip supper.

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Staying True To Your Values When Times Get Tough

Linda’s story of how she had been forced out of work by a set of destructive values, the negative impact this had on her mental well-being, and how she needed to ensure this never happened again.

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Revisiting and Reevaluating Lessons From Times Past

I needed to be reminded of my preferred way of learning. I also needed to be reminded that I can easily fit learning into my day through short bursts of time. And I needed to be reminded how this helps me honour my core value of maintaining a learning lifestyle.

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