Personal Success at Work
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Personal Success at Work
This course is part of Career Growth: find and achieve your dream career Specialization
Instructor: Chris Croft
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What you'll learn
Define your personal version of success, develop skills to be highly promotable, manage relationships at work, and build strong professional networks
By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer picture of where you want your career to go and a practical toolkit to help you get there.
Skills you'll gain
- Business Leadership
- Initiative and Leadership
- Goal Setting
- Interpersonal Communications
- Leadership Development
- Professional Development
- Professionalism
- Leadership and Management
- Delegation Skills
- Interviewing Skills
- Organizational Effectiveness
- Negotiation
- Smart Goals
- Assertiveness
- Communication
- Job Evaluation
- Organizational Development
- Motivational Interviewing
- Business Communication
- Organizational Skills
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March 2026
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There are 5 modules in this course
Chris Croft is a business coach with over 20 years’ experience teaching entrepreneurs and leaders worldwide. His specialty is making complex ideas simple, useful, and even fun.
What does success in your career really mean? For some people it means promotion and a bigger salary. For others it means job security, enjoying their work, making a difference, or finding the right balance between career and life. In reality, career success looks different for everyone and understanding what success means to you is the first step toward achieving it. In this practical and thought-provoking course, Chris Croft shares the strategies, behaviours, and career tactics that help professionals succeed inside organisations. Drawing on decades of experience working across companies of different sizes and industries, Chris explains how careers actually work inside real workplaces, not just how we think they should work. You’ll explore how organisations operate, how promotions really happen, and how to position yourself so that you become the obvious candidate when opportunities appear. The course covers everything from defining your personal version of success to developing the habits and skills that make people promotable. You’ll learn how to manage relationships with colleagues and bosses, build strong professional networks, and avoid the common career pitfalls that derail talented people. You’ll also explore practical frameworks such as: • The four career paths within organisations • The SPVEM goal framework for powerful career goals • The PEAR model of promotion potential • How to balance achievement and quality of life • Strategies for navigating office politics and organisational dynamics This course also explores the importance of visibility, communication, relationships, and reputation within organisations, all essential ingredients for long-term career success. By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer picture of where you want your career to go and a practical toolkit to help you get there. Whether you want to climb the corporate ladder, develop specialist expertise, or simply build a career that you genuinely enjoy, this course will help you design a career path that works for you.
In this first section let's review what your goals currently are and tweak them to be practical and grounded. Then think about how you want to balance happiness and achievement in your life and how important money is to you.
What's included
9 videos6 readings2 assignments
9 videos•Total 29 minutes
- Promo•3 minutes
- Introduction•1 minute
- Definition of success•3 minutes
- Career Options•8 minutes
- Goals•3 minutes
- SPVEM•2 minutes
- Work-Life Balance•2 minutes
- Money•3 minutes
- The Stress spiral•4 minutes
6 readings•Total 60 minutes
- Definition of success•10 minutes
- Your Career Options•10 minutes
- Goals to Achieve and Enjoy •10 minutes
- Setting SPVEM Goals•10 minutes
- Qualities for success at work {video}•10 minutes
- The Happiness Handkerchief•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Review your career objectives•30 minutes
- Making your own SPVEM goals•30 minutes
This section is full of practical skills you'll need to master in order to excel in your career. Learn about communication, personality types and assertiveness.
What's included
10 videos3 readings2 assignments
10 videos•Total 40 minutes
- Appearance•7 minutes
- Be a great communicator•4 minutes
- Maximum friends and no enemies•3 minutes
- Work hard•3 minutes
- PEAR•5 minutes
- Control your personal drivers•3 minutes
- Adapt to all 4 types•5 minutes
- Be yourself•5 minutes
- The line between assertive and aggressive•3 minutes
- Office politics•3 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- How PEAR are you•10 minutes
- Adapt to All 4 Types•10 minutes
- Being too nice at work {video}•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Reviewing your communication skills•30 minutes
- What are your drivers?•30 minutes
Understanding, and changing, your position within the organisation you work for is vital. You'll learn how to make sure you are perceived by your superiors as competent and reliable, as well as evolving your job scope to take on additional responsibility and interesting tasks.
What's included
12 videos8 readings2 assignments
12 videos•Total 35 minutes
- Managing your boss•3 minutes
- Bad bosses•3 minutes
- Visibility•4 minutes
- T-shaped•3 minutes
- Don’t be secretive or protective of your knowledge•3 minutes
- Creative but don’t rock the boat•3 minutes
- Evolve the circle•3 minutes
- Adapting to change•3 minutes
- Come out of your comfort zone•2 minutes
- Go the extra mile•2 minutes
- Have the courage to ask for what you want•3 minutes
- Consider a mentor•3 minutes
8 readings•Total 80 minutes
- Get Noticed by Decision-Makers•10 minutes
- Evolve the Circle•10 minutes
- How to get promoted•10 minutes
- Practical tips for promotion opportunities•10 minutes
- Seven ways to deal with change•10 minutes
- Come Out of Your Comfort Zone•10 minutes
- Have the Courage to Ask for What You Want•10 minutes
- Tips for negotiating a raise {video}•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- What is your organisational positioning?•30 minutes
- Evolving your job scope•30 minutes
Whether or not you are currently considering a career move, keeping your contacts up to date and your qualifications ever changing is very important. Let's assess here whether you'd like to move, whether you should move, and how to go about achieving it.
What's included
8 videos3 readings1 assignment
8 videos•Total 31 minutes
- It’s OK to move•4 minutes
- “What if I’m content?”•5 minutes
- When to move•4 minutes
- The Signs of being in the wrong place•3 minutes
- How to move•4 minutes
- Zig-zagging•3 minutes
- Contacts•5 minutes
- Qualifications•3 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Understanding The Peter Principle {video}•10 minutes
- Your Achievement Log•10 minutes
- Build Your Network•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
- Applying this section•30 minutes
Here we look at commercial business skills which will take your career potential that extra step. For example, management skills, presentation skills and project management.
What's included
10 videos3 readings2 assignments
10 videos•Total 38 minutes
- Know your strengths and weaknesses•4 minutes
- Managing People•1 minute
- Ten unusual management ideas•6 minutes
- Time Management•5 minutes
- Influencing•3 minutes
- Presentation Skills•4 minutes
- Project Planning•6 minutes
- Assessing your Commercial Awareness•3 minutes
- Being good at your job•3 minutes
- Summing up•3 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
- Know Your Strengths and Weaknesses•10 minutes
- Thanking People•10 minutes
- Prioritizing Your Tasks•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
- Action planning•30 minutes
- Moving beyond strengths and weaknesses•30 minutes
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