Work
Should I Follow My Dreams?
When it comes to deciding what to do with our lives, we are frequently presented with what looks like a…
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Work
Many of us are unsure how to identify the right kind of work for us – or, if we have found it, how to get more out of the many hours we spend working. As well as offering skills training for professionals and teams through The School of Life at Work, we aim to help you gain a clearer understanding of your career potential and find both success and meaning in your chosen role.
Tools for Finding Fulfilling Work
From discovering the kinds of career that might be right for us to gaining the skills we need to work effectively, we offer a range of tools for ensuring the work we do is effective, enriching and meaningful.
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The Career Therapy Collection
A gift set to help you find the perfect career, featuring The Career Workbook, How to Think More Effectively and our Writing Journal (Burgundy) Plenty of us dislike…
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Teamwork Game
Exercises to build better team dynamics In order to work well together, people need more than just technical skills; they need to get to know and understand each…
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On Confidence
Meditations on the skill of self-belief The difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This book walks…
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The Emotionally Intelligent Office
A book outlining 20 key emotional skills for the workplace Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure…
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Collaboration Card Set
52 exercises to foster diplomacy, empathy and effective communication within teams The effectiveness of any organisation or business comes down to how skilled everyone is at collaborating: how…
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The Projects & Goals Collection
A gift set to help us achieve our dreams, featuring the Self-Reflection Journal and What Do I Really Want to Achieve? A good life consists of two key…
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Introducing the new The School of Life App
Get all of The School of Life’s Work and Career content, and much more, in your pocket by downloading now.
Work and Career in the app
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Get on with your colleagues
The importance of psychology at work
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Think more effectively
The hard work of being 'lazy'
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modern media destroys our minds
Why most news is bad news
Therapeutic Services
Career Counselling
There are few questions harder or lonelier than ‘What should I do with my working life?’ The School of Life offers a Career Counselling Service designed to guide us deftly and humanely towards the kind of jobs in which we can truly thrive.
Latest Articles on Work
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The Problem with Individualism
The world became modern when people who met for the first time shifted from asking each other (as they had…
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How to Screw Up at Work
One of the greatest problems of our working lives is that we lack any experience of, or instruction in, the…
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In Praise of Networking
Networking has a bad name. It’s associated with self-enrichment, egoism and snobbery. But it is, in its essence, just a…
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How Not to Let Work Explode Your Life
©Flickr/Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier It’s 4.30pm, Thursday. The plane is still on the tarmac at Milan-Linate awaiting…
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On Bounded and Unbounded Tasks
One of the big causes of stress is that we often face problems that can’t be solved in any reasonable…
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