Squiggly Careers

This week, Helen and Sarah explore what to do when guilt is getting in your way. They discuss the four types of guilt, moving from your 'shoulds' to your strengths, understanding circles of control, influence, and concern and lots more practical ideas for action to transform your relationship with guilt.

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-sprint

2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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-sprint

2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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-sprint

2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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-sprint

2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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-sprint

2.Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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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/orb0n5

3. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i

4. 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 [email protected]

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