This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about how to use scenario planning as a tool to increase your career resilience. They work through a matrix that you can apply to your career to spot different situations and take proactive action to mitigate risk and maximise opportunity.

(00:00) Introduction

(01:25) Benefits of scenario planning

(04:57) Part 1: a sample matrix

(07:07) a) best case - promotion

(08:54) b) worst case - redundancy

(10:33) c) unwanted - changing role

(13:15) d) hopeful - job-crafting

(16:22) Part 2: why wait?...

(17:17) a) best case - sponsorship and skills

(18:46) b) worst case - create connections

(20:09) c) unwanted - look sideways

(21:44) d) hopeful - shadowing

(25:02) Part 3: AI add-on

(30:09) Final thoughts

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