Introducing: Book Club!

And our first read of 2025, Tell Me About Yourself by Holley Murchison*.

Reading is great for confidence and self-esteem, something we’re going to be practising and growing here at Work Your Own Way. So, I thought it would be great to add to our shared experience by reading the same book at the same time.

How you talk about yourself is something that is really easily overlooked - and yet it can be really helpful when you’re thinking about who you are at work, and what you want from it. This is the theme we’re going to explore for the first quarter of 2025.

Our first book: Tell Me About Yourself by Holley Murchison*.

*Since publishing this book, the author’s name has changed from Holley to Musa.

First things first. This book has really long lead times to order a physical copy.

So whilst this is called Book Club, we’re going to do a lot of the work without the actual physical book, in case you can’t get hold of a copy.

Weird, right? At least for me, because I love having a book that I can flick through and actually feel the physical presence of.

But this is Work Your Own Way, so it’s going to be Book Club Our Own Way, too.

If you can, do still get hold of a physical copy of the book.

You can also listen to the audio book; that’s available to listen right now, and there’s a kindle version of the book to download.

And then, when we get started on applying the framework that’s in the book together, there’s a couple of online resources we’ll use. And plenty of paper and sticky notes too.

Why this book?

Tell Me About Yourself is named for that thing that an interviewer often says at the start of an interview. So, tell me about yourself.

The book gets you to dig deep into what you say when someone else says that. Or similarly, when you’re asked the question, What do you do?

If we can shift the way that we answer these kinds of questions, I think it can be a really powerful tool for change in our work. If we can shift the way we talk about ourselves and the way we talk about our work, we may just find that we shift other things, too. Things like:

• What we’re invited to do at work.

• How people see us at work.

• How people see us outside of work.

We may even find that we shift how we see ourselves. And that helps us to change the work that we’re doing, because we see ourselves and what we’re capable of in a different light.

How’s that sounding, so far?