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Sunday Selections: Professional Growth Resources

Your Weekly WorkLife Curated Digest. This week's Sunday Selections feature: Values Alignment Book Club Facilitator’s Toolkit, Workplace Communication Breakthrough Stories Template, The Novel That Built His Courage, a story about developing professional courage through fiction, and The Longest Way Round, A Journey of Character course (50% off this week). Explore nine curated collections—storytelling, self-discovery, character traits, book clubs, wellbeing resources, and professional retreat experiences. 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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Success, Failure, Passion Story Templates

Success, Failure, Passion Story Templates Craft Your Three Fundamental Stories This series of practical story templates helps you develop your three fundamental stories and adapt them for different professional situations. Your experiences become stories. Your stories define you.

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Take Care of Your Wellbeing Templates

Take Care of Your Wellbeing Both In and Out of the Workplace. Finding Balance When Personal Crisis Meets Professional Responsibility.
When work pressures threaten your health, relationships, and peace of mind, you need practical tools—not just good intentions.
This series of immediately actionable templates helps you maintain professional effectiveness whilst protecting your wellbeing. Each template addresses a specific workplace challenge:

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The Longest Way Round: A Journey of Character

The Character Compass: Your natural traits aren't obstacles to overcome—they're signals pointing toward where you truly belong.

Traditional career advice focuses on building skills and pushing through rejection, but character traits require a different approach. Your authentic qualities—the way you naturally connect, create, and contribute—offer something unique: a compass for navigation rather than a map to follow. When you learn to recognise and honour your character traits, you're not just surviving setbacks—you're discovering what they've been trying to reveal about your true direction.

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The Novel That Built His Courage

What followed was the kind of conversation Richard had never initiated before. Instead of accepting the campaign brief uncritically, he found himself genuinely curious about the ethical implications. Richard's willingness to speak up wasn't just about the campaign—it was about reclaiming a part of himself he'd lost. Growing up as the middle child in a family that valued harmony over honesty, he'd learned that keeping quiet was safer than risking conflict. The Book Thief had shown him that silence could be complicity, and that small acts of courage could compound into authentic self-expression.Over the next fifteen minutes, a completely different discussion emerged. Richard shared his analysis of the excluded populations and asked how the campaign would serve—or potentially harm—those communities.

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Sunday Selections: Career Development 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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Values Alignment Career Guide: When Success and Values Collide

What This Course Offers: When your expertise and your values seem to pull in different directions, you don't have to choose between them. Follow one professional's navigation from this exact crossroads—and apply the insights to your own unique situation. 

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How Hidden Character Traits Turn Side Jobs Into Callings

Remember: Your most powerful professional breakthroughs often emerge when you recognise character traits operating across contexts you've kept separate. The advanced practitioner learns to see these integration patterns, understand their systematic power, and deploy them consciously to create professional approaches that honour authentic character while serving purposes larger than any single role. Elena's transformation from compartmentalised work to integrated mastery demonstrates how side projects and temporary jobs often reveal the character foundations for entirely new professional possibilities.

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The Email That Stopped Everything

"Here's a simple technique I call the 'So What, Now What' test," the director explained, writing on the whiteboard. "Every opening line should answer two questions: 'So what does this mean?' and 'Now what should I do about it?' If your opening doesn't pass both tests, rewrite it."

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The Book That Taught Her to Listen

But something made her pause. In that moment, she found herself thinking about Amir's internal struggles throughout The Kite Runner—how external pressures often masked deeper, more complex concerns. What if Jimmy's deadline challenges weren't really about time management at all?
"Jimmy," she heard herself saying, "what's making this particular deadline feel so challenging for you?"

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