Boost Your Career Success by Developing Your Soft Skills (Udemy.com)
Assess your personal development skill gaps with the Success@Work Model. Create your action plan to boost career success
Created by: Denise Fletcher
Last updated August 2019
Our take
Based on the ratings of 17,014 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in August 2019. No course pays to be reviewed.
A one-hour self-assessment exercise rather than a skills course. Denise Fletcher walks through her Success@Work Model, asks students to score themselves against it, then offers a run of quick tips before they write a personal development plan. The syllabus shows 16 lectures and 63 minutes of video, with two short articles and no quizzes or assignments. It suits people who have had some feedback at work and want a structured way to turn it into a plan.
Reviewers like how it is chunked. Several say it made them stop and think honestly about where they stand, and one calls the self-assessment a useful tool across different competencies. Fletcher gets credit for a great speaking voice, and even the two star reviewer calls her kind. The complaints are consistent too. Two and three star reviews call the slides dated and text heavy, and one says some lectures are just the slides read aloud, with generic advice like drink more water. One reviewer wanted activities or assessments built in, and there are none.
The last update was August 2019, and one section is still titled as material being built that week, which suggests it was never finished. With about 35,000 students and 17,000 reviews at 4.4 stars, most people come away satisfied, though the four star pile is nearly as big as the five star one. Worth an hour if the price is low, but if the gap is one specific skill like assertiveness, the Assertiveness Basics guide sitting beside it is the more targeted pick.
Pros
- Short and chunked: 16 lectures in about an hour, easy to fit around a working day.
- The Success@Work self-assessment gets reviewers to honestly rate where they stand.
- Fletcher's speaking voice gets praise, and even the two star reviewer calls her kind.
- Ends with a concrete action plan rather than theory alone.
Cons
- Slides look dated and text heavy; one reviewer says some lectures just read them aloud.
- No quizzes, assignments or activities, and one reviewer asked for them.
- Last updated August 2019, and the 'new material' section still carries its work-in-progress title.
She has broken it to sections or chunks and its very easy to follow. Great speaking voice.
All Levels is fair: no prior knowledge needed, just willingness to reflect honestly and act afterwards. Not a leadership course.
What you will learn
- Understand the areas of personal development that make people more successful
- Decide the areas of personal development that YOU need to focus on to be more successful in your career
- Create a personal development plan you can implement easily and at low cost to you
- Action some personal development tips to improve your success
- Boost your success in your job, career or life
- Be more confident
Course content
5 sections · 16 lectures · 1.1 hours of video 2 articles
- 1Introduction and Welcome 1 free preview1 lecture · 3 min
- 2Success and the Success@Work Model 1 free preview3 lectures · 16 min
- 3Denise's Quick Tips 1 free preview8 lectures · 30 min
- 4NEW Material - Please note that this section is being built w/c 05/08/193 lectures · 11 min
- 5Bonus - Special Offers, Courses, Dedicated Facebook group for support 1 free preview1 lecture · 2 min
Who it is for
The instructor says it suits
- This course is for people who want to improve themselves at work
- This course can help people who want to get on in their career or change their jobs
- This course is for people who want more success at work
- This course can help leaders develop but isn't a leadership development course
What you need before you start
- Students need to spend some time reflecting about their skills to get the best from this course
- Students need to be honest when reflecting
- Students need a desire to change and improve
- Students need to take action after the course to optimise the impact of the course
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews17,014#30 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length1.1 hoursshorter than 83% of them
- Last updatedAugust 2019earlier than 85% of them
Course Description
This course helps you to be successful in work and in your career. It helps you to assess your strengths and development areas and create a plan of action to be more successful in work.
Self-assess using the Success@Work Model, explore personal development quick tips and create a personal development plan so you can develop yourself to be more successful.
This course is ideal for you if you
· Want to be more successful and confident at work
· Want to develop yourself to be in the best possible position for new job role
· Want to assess your strengths and development needs to be more successful
· Want to take action to improve yourself after feedback from someone at work
· Recognise that you keep making mistakes at work and want to take action
There are three main sections to the course
1. Self-assessment using the Success@Work Model
2. Quick Tips Development for Success at Work
3. Creation of a Success@Work Personal Development Action Plan
This course is made up of video lectures taking you on a journey of self –reflection. It will be a good idea to get a pen and pad to jot down your thoughts as you go through the lectures. The great thing about video lectures is that you can stop, start and replay as often as you like so you can learn at your own place. On top of this if you have questions or want to discuss anything than you can message me in the course or privately.
The one thing which is certain though is
If you action the learning from the course you WILL BE more successful at work
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
17,014 Reviews
Denise Fletcher
Why choose me as your course instructor?
I have spent half my career working for various organisations seeing both good and bad practice in leadership, management and change projects. Out of frustration at how bad leadership and change can be I decided to try and do something about this and hence Enabling Transitions, my business was born. I enjoy my work and love making a difference for individuals and organizations.
People buy my services because I am practical, passionate about people and plain speaking.
A summary of my experience:
I have over 20 years experience as a Leadership Coach and Trainer working with small, medium and large organisations across all sectors including the public sector and Not for Profit Sector. I am qualified as a Trainer and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. I cover all aspect of the training cycle from training needs analysis, design, delivery and evaluation.
In addition to this I am qualified at Masters Level in Business and Executive Coaching. I am passionate about one-to-one coaching, team coaching (Action Learning) and creating coaching cultures in teams and organisations.
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Reviews
By Esther Gonzalez on 3/23/2026
This was a very informative training, it really helped me assess myself and show me area where I thought I had all the knowledge I needed but really I need to learn more and grow in, it was a great learning experience.
By Diana Garcia on 8/20/2025
Great to learn ways to improve and become better employees and people in general. The best part is that this course does not focus on weaknesses but strengths and allows you to develop a plan to take action and improve in areas that need improvement.
By Anonymized User on 11/7/2022
This is a beneficial course to help you become self-aware and really analyze who you are in the workplace, in your personal life, and on your own. I believe taking a self-assessment is a great tool to becoming more aware of your strengths and weaknesses. (You need to know where you are before you know where you need to improve.) Shortcomings of this course are mostly in the attached resource materials. The grammar and lack of appropriate punctuation makes it a little more challenging to read than it should be. There is also repetition in the information. Otherwise, the material is good for "raw information." It just needs the finesse of a good editor.
By Henrique Waltric Leão da Silva on 7/18/2022
Hello, this feedback is not to make you upset but to show some points to improve. I feel that the content could be presented in a better way. Some images and the quality of the slides could be better (the organization of the text or the lists could be managed in a way to not become so massive). Some classes are just reading the texts from slides, with some "general tips and ideas" (Ex: Drink more water, search on the internet about it, read a book about it, etc). As a paying course, we are already doing this type of survey that guide us to this course. However, Denise looks like a very kind and supportive person. Would be awesome to have a meeting with her. Again, hope this could help you to improve, and best luck to your company Enabling Transitions. Hugs from Brazil.
By Tatana Jurkovicova on 5/25/2022
The speaker sounded quite uncertain sometimes as if she did not know the content of her presentation. Otherwise interesting topic, the content itself was good, I learned also some new things.
By Anonymized User on 11/4/2021
Yes, the content really helped to know better about self & taught a few practical & simple techniques to handle things & situations. One feedback though, the slides could have been better & engaging. The content is AMAZING. With visually appealing & engaging slides, the recipe is worth a 5 star rating. Thank You! :)
By Anonymized User on 7/12/2021
This course helped me to figure out my weak loops and plain accordingly to address the loop.I really loved it .I liked the tips given to be focused at work by balancing emotions and stress .
By Lucy Mathebula on 7/6/2020
yes the course was good match for I have learn they are many way you can be success at work. and how to create my action to plan to boost my career..it has help to improve in my strength and development at work or outside.
By Anonymized User on 4/11/2020
My experienced are: I have learned what success is. Success means different people with different skills. I have also learned the success @work model which includes learning focus, strategic focus, change focus, people focus, customer focus and results focus. the course is good and the instructor voice was clear Also, I learnt about the xamples of successful people, they are the Engineers, actors, ceberaties. All these people have different attributes and skills that make them success. Workers at the work place have different personal development to ensure the success of the organization.
By Anonymized User on 2/5/2020
The course is proving so vital especially as it highlights areas to focus looking at both self and going outward. The giving feedback, self disclosure part is very vital. Sometimes we fail to have success in life because we keeep too much too ourselves.
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Overall Score : 88 / 100












