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This week, Helen and Sarah are focusing on the quick things you can do to invest in your career development. If you want to accelerate your learning, rapidly increase your impact, boost your career community and get some fast feedback, this episode has got lots of ideas to help!All of the actions are summarised in this week's PodSheet - head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ to download.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the biases that can hold your career development back. They explore the issues that affinity bias, confirmation bias and recency bias can cause, sharing their own experiences of these at work. They then talk about how to increase your awareness of these biases and what actions you can take if you think they may be getting in your way. There are lots of useful actions in this week's PodSheet - head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ to download.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint 2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform

his week Sarah talks to Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson to explore the concept of intelligent failure. Together they discuss why not all failure is born equal, why some types of failure are how we make progress and the importance of learning over knowing. To dive deeper into Amy's work we'd recommend reading her new book Right Kind of Wrong - the science of failing well (her other book, The Fearless Organisation is also excellent if you'd like to learn more about psychological safety)To read the PodSheet that goes with this episode head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we

This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about strategic thinking - what it means, why it matters and how you can develop the skill at work. They discuss some useful strategic questions that you can apply to your career and some tried and tested frameworks that can help you zoom out and structure your thinking.To read the PodSheet that goes with this episode head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the importance of creating clarity at work and the techniques and tactics you can practice to do it. They discuss how to use clarifying questions and the role of a clarity co-pilot to reduce confusion in conversations and communications. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint 2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a special episode this week, recorded at Squiggly Careers Live on October 17th. In this recording, you'll hear Helen and Sarah talk to Anna Whitehouse (aka Mother Pukka), Lucy Aylen (Founder of Never Fully Dressed) and Peter Komolafe (financial expert). Together they discuss how to build communities, the things which drain and drives you and your how your mindset influences your approach to financial management.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint 2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the factors that contribute to a high performing team. They dive into Patrick Lencioni's work on the Five Dysfunctions of a Team and share ideas for action to help you address common issues that impact teams. If you feel like your team would be 'even better if.....', this episode will be a useful listen.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Helen and Sarah talk about pressure and the tipping point between productive pressure and pressure that negatively affects your performance. They discuss how different types of pressure (anticipated and unanticipated) and your sense of control of a situation (high and low) affect the most useful response you can take. They share their own high pressure moments and different ideas for action that have helped them to respond with confidence. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint 2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about learning agility. When we are primed to learn from our experiences we are better able to perform in situations we haven't experienced before. Squiggly Careers have lots of newness and learning agility means you are better able to navigate it! When you develop your learning agility you can move with confidence into your courage zone and make a faster impact.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint 2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n53. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Helen talks to author Jenn Granneman about Sensitivity and the benefit sensitive people bring to businesses. Together they discuss what it means to be sensitive, how you can spot it and how you can support it in organisations. You can find out more about Jenn's book "Sensitive; The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World' here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444843/sensitive-by-solo-jenn-granneman-and-andre/9780241525760More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n52. Sign up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The words we use at work affect the quality of our career conversations and the way we approach our development. When we use 'ladder-like' language, we limit people's potential. Making some simple 'squiggly swaps' opens up conversations and creates more opportunity for people. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about 5 common examples of ladder-like language and what a squiggly word swap might sound like. They also share coaching questions to make it easy to use squiggly language when you're thinking about your own development or supporting other people with theirs.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

Judgement isn't a skill that often gets put in the spotlight, but it's something we regularly rely on at work. Decisions about people, projects, priorities and purpose all require us to use our judgement. In this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen explore what we can do to become more conscious of our judgement detractors and the actions we can take to improve our use of judgement at work. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Helen and Sarah discuss what we need to do to create more time to think in our week and why it matters so much for our development. They have lots of practical suggestions to create thinking patterns and techniques to help personalise your approach.More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this weeks episode Sarah talks to Pinky Lilani, CBE about her squiggly career story. Pinky shares how kindness, courage and people helping people have helped her to navigate her squiggly career so far. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about strengths and how practising strengths stories can increase your confidence in talking about what you want to be known for.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about building your personal brand and the importance of reflecting on what you stand for, who you stand with and what makes you stand out.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about grit and how the 4Ps of purpose, positivity, people and progress can help you stick to your longterm meaningful goals.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about leadership and how to prioritise involving rather than solving and the importance of closing the say-do gap.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about conflict and what you can do to fix fiction fast.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about creativity and share how to use AI to accelerate creativity and a technique to use in teams to generate new ideas.There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic.Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprintIf you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.