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A Journey of Character Templates

A Journey of Character Templates: Identify, Develop, and Leverage Your Authentic Professional Strengths. When you're unclear about your authentic strengths, struggling in misaligned environments, or wondering if your capabilities could serve more meaningful purposes, you need practical tools—not conventional approaches. This series of immediately actionable templates helps you identify, develop, and leverage your authentic character traits. Each template addresses a specific professional challenge.

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Adaptability as a Core Character Trait

Adaptability as a Core Character Trait tells Mark's story—a journey from forcing false transformation to authentic adaptation through understanding his natural strengths. His transformation reveals how genuine adaptability comes not from abandoning core character traits but from finding new expressions for them that serve changing professional circumstances.

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Free The Longest Way Round Character Traits Toolkit Series

Free Character Traits Toolkit Series. Discover and Develop the Authentic Qualities That Guide Your Professional Path. Your character traits aren't just personality descriptors—they're the authentic qualities that shape how you work, what energises you, and where you create your most meaningful impact. Five free toolkits to help you discover, develop, and honour your character traits.

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Sunday Selections: Career Coaching Resources

Your Weekly WorkLife Curated Digest of Insightful, Inspiring and Practical Lessons. Each Sunday, discover curated career development resources from across the School of WorkLife collections—designed to spark reflection, inspire growth, and support your ongoing WorkLife learning. These resources are designed as effective learning experiences—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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Free Take Care of Your Wellbeing Toolkit Series

Free The Wellbeing Toolkit Series. Establish Boundaries That Transform Overwhelm Into Sustainable Success. When competing demands threaten your wellbeing, establishing boundaries isn't optional—it's essential. Five free toolkits to help you establish, maintain, and strengthen the boundaries that support your wellbeing through practical exercises and real-world examples.

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Free The Three Fundamental Stories Toolkit Series

Free The Three Fundamental Stories Toolkit Series. Discover and Craft the Success, Failure, and Passion Stories That Define You. Every professional journey is shaped by three fundamental stories: Success, Failure, and Passion. But discovering and developing these stories—then using them effectively across different contexts—requires intentional practice. The five free toolkits to help you discover, develop, and deploy your three fundamental stories.

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Take Care of Your Wellbeing Both In and Out of the Workplace

When professional responsibility and personal crisis collide, you don't have to sacrifice everything. Follow one entrepreneur's journey from overwhelming pressure to sustainable boundaries and apply the insights to your own situation. Learn to recognise boundary erosion, maintain commitments during crisis, and create environments that honour both professional success and personal wellbeing. This course is designed as an effective learning experience—for individuals managing their own development and companies supporting their people's growth.

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Free The Values Alignment Toolkit Series

Free The Values Alignment Toolkit Series Uncover What Drives You - The Journey Inward That Lights Your Path Forward. Every professional journey requires clarity about what truly matters. But discovering your core values—then using them to navigate career decisions, workplace challenges, and professional transitions—requires intentional practice. The five free toolkits help you identify, honour, and align your work with your values.

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The Meeting That Silenced the Room

Brian had perfected the art of boring people with numbers. As Head of Financial Planning at a fast-growing renewable energy company, he delivered monthly presentations to the leadership team that were technically flawless and mindfully numbing. Endless slides of charts, graphs, and variance analyses that made even the CFO's eyes glaze over.
The wake-up call came when their biggest investor pulled funding from a major expansion project. "The financial projections didn't clearly communicate the strategic risks," they explained in the exit meeting. Brian's stomach dropped as he realised his quarterly presentations had contained every warning signal about market volatility and cash flow pressures—but somehow, none of it had translated into proactive decision-making.
His manager's feedback stung because it was accurate: "Your analysis is world-class, Brian, but somehow the strategic implications never feel urgent enough to drive immediate action."

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Values Alignment Templates

Values Alignment Templates Navigate from Success to True Significance. When career decisions feel unclear or work feels misaligned, you need practical clarity about your values—not just vague aspirations and good intentions.This series of practical values templates helps you discover your core values, recognise when they're honoured or compromised, and make career decisions aligned with what matters most.

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