WorkLife Book Club: Volume 1: Shoreditch

Experiences we have in our WorkLife shape our understanding of the world. Stories help communicate truths about human behaviours and relationships, bringing an opportunity for change and development.

Books help anchor WorkLife conversations through characters, plots and settings, enabling a range of issues to be worked through.

The WorkLife Book Club takes you on a journey through the streets of Shoreditch, East London, as the members share culinary experiences, while discussing WorkLife struggles and successes through the wisdom found in the books they read. The book includes assignments with helpful techniques that can be applied to support you in self-managing your WorkLife learning.

Featured in this volume: 'Lean In', by Shery Sandberg; 'It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be', by Paul Arden; 'The One Minute Apology', by Ken Blanchard & Margret McBride; ' The Inner Game of Work', by Timothy Gallwey; 'The Vocal Arts Workbook: A Practical Course for Developing the Expressive Range of Your Voice', by David Carey & Rebecca Clark Carey; 'The Power of a Positive No', by William Ury.

The volume also contains suggested assignments to work through: personal quarterly offsite, WorkLife achievements, WorkLife conversations, developing your power of observation, finding your unique story and making it into a powerful presentation.

"My stated mission is to guide WorkLife learning through reading. I also have a secret mission, which is to draw attention to stories of change and active decision making - people standing up and saying they want to do something different with their WorkLife. I want to highlight stories, books and discussions that focus on in-depth portrayals of subjects' inner feelings, thoughts and motivations. While readers will not encounter the exact scenarios they read about, they will be able to use an increasingly finely tuned ability to understand and respond to multiple competing viewpoints" (Carmel O'Reilly, School of WorkLife)

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Carmel O'Reilly is the founder of School of WorkLife (www.schoolofworklife.com). She was born and grew up in Ireland, and now lives in Shoreditch, London. Her work and subsequently her first book, 'Your WorkLife Your Way', and its companion workbook, focus on helping people live their best WorkLives by managing their learning, development and growth, through effective self-feedback, insightful questions and the ability to shape and tell their unique story.

Ian Remedios is a learning and development professional with a love for graphic novels and pop culture. Through sketchnoting, he has managed to merge his two passions by designing sketchnotes on human resources, management, and learning and development topics, using pop culture references, creating fun and accessible way to learn and retain information. He also loves doing ink sketches of urban landscapes and experimenting with traditional inking techniques. You can find his sketchnotes on his website, www.indtips.com