This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how trying to make everything great can get in the way of your growth. They discuss how to practice a 'good enough' approach to reduce pressure and accelerate your progress. Their mindset matrix will help you self-assess how a need for control affects your work and they share 5 ideas to adapt your approach and recognise when it's good to let go.

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This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the women whose work has made a difference to their development. From authors to academics, sponsor and supporters, Helen and Sarah will help you to think through your own career development community. If you’re in search of some new sources of inspiration, this could be a good episode for you! More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:

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This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about ways of working. They explore how to create clarity with roles and responsibilities, how to reduce confusion by reviewing your tools and tech and how to develop a unique culture with rhythms and rituals.

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This week, Helen talks to journalist and author of 'You're not listening' Kate Murphy. Together they discuss why distractions are affecting our ability to listen and simple ways you can upgrade your listening skills including team improvision exercises and some propmts to reflect on the quality of your conversations. To learn more about Kate and her work head to https://www.journalistkatemurphy.com/

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This week, Sarah and Helen talk about how a need to achieve can get in the way of your growth. They help you to assess whether you are an overachiever, explore the implications for your development and discuss how to gain more perspective and increase your performance.

For more on this topic, pre-order Emma Gannon's new book The Success Myth now: https://bit.ly/TheSuccessMyth

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In this Ask the Expert episode of the squiggly careers podcast Sarah has a conversation with author and founder David Erixon about the topic of Doing by Learning. Together they discuss what learning through experiences really looks like, what the challanges are and the practical actions we can all take to make learning part of our day to day.

David's article: https://medium.com/hacker-maker-teacher/doing-by-learning-by-david-erixon-c0f1fb4b9446

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In the final episode of the Squiggly Soft Skills Series, Helen and Sarah talk about the topic of Stress Tolerance. They borrow insights from 2 books to support the conversation. Helen reads Widen the Window by Elizabeth A. Stanley PHD and Sarah reviews When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate.

Together they share insights, ideas and actions to support your stress tolerance at work.

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In this week's episode Helen and Sarah talk about the skill of social influence as part of the four-part soft skills series. Helen reads Techniques of Social Influence by Dariusz Dolinski and Sarah reviews Invisible Influence by Jonan Berger.

Together they share insights, ideas and actions to develop your skills of social influence at work.

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This is the second episode of a four part series of the soft skills we need to succeed in our squiggly career. This week Helen and Sarah take on the topic of critical thinking and review two books to learn more. Helen reads Framers by Francis de Véricourt, Kenneth Cukier, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Sarah reads Harvard Business Review's brand new book THE HBR Guide to Critical Thinking.

Together they share insights, ideas and actions to develop your approach to critical thinking at work.

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Helen and Sarah are back with another squiggly skills series and this time they are focusing on the soft skills we all need to succeed.

Over the next 4 weeks they’ll be exploring originality, critical thinking, social influence and stress tolerance.

For each episode, they will read and review 2 books on the topic to understand more about the skill - what it is, why it matters and how we can all develop and demonstrate it at work.

This episode of the soft skills series kicks-off with originality. Helen reviews insights and ideas from Originals by Adam Grant and Sarah shares her learning from Corporate Rebels by Pim de Morree and Joost Minnaar.

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