Squiggly Careers

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#384 How to use deliberate practice to drive your development Jan 30, 2024

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This week, Helen and Sarah are deep diving into the world of deliberate practice to explore how it can apply to what we do at work. Together, they talk about the process of deliberate practice and use their own examples to bring it to life.

If you want to make your learning more intentional and your career development efforts have more impact, this week's episode should be a useful listen for you!

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#383 How pausing increases performance Jan 23, 2024

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In squiggly careers, if we want to be at our best at work, we need to punctuate our days with pauses. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how adding long or short pauses into your day can help to increase your performance and productivity.

From playing around with pauses in meetings to reflecting on your levels of 'space and speed', they discuss ideas for action that can prevent sameness and help you to get unstuck.

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3. 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

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#382 How introverts and extroverts work better together Jan 16, 2024

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This week, Helen and Sarah are tackling a topic that's close to home. Having worked together for over 10 years, Helen and Sarah have learnt to bring their opposite profiles together to increase the impact of their work. It might not always have been easy, but over time they have learnt how much more effective they are when they bring the best of their introvert and extrovert tendencies together. Listen and learn from their ideas on how to approach 'you/me/we' work and the benefit of noticing what works well for other people with different profiles.

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3. 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

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381 How to start from scratch Jan 09, 2024

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Starting from scratch is an important skill in a squiggly career and the more we use our ability, the better we get! This week, Helen and Sarah share 3 ideas for action to help you to find more ways to start from scratch and to feel confident doing it. They talk through the importance of taking an MVP approach, Scratch Stacking and Smart Copying.

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3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/

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#380 How to grow your role Jan 02, 2024

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Whilst the idea of a brand new role can be appealing, the reality for most of us is that we are more likely to stay in our current job than leave to do something different. However, staying does not have to mean stagnating and this week, Helen and Sarah talk about how you can grow your role. They share 3 tried and tested actions that can help you to increase your opportunities and the variety of what you are working on. From spotting problems and pitching ideas to finding mutual work wins, growing your role is a great way to take control of your career development.

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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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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#379 Career Change Dec 26, 2023

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This week Sarah talks to futurist, speaker and author April Rinne. Together they discuss what we need to unlearn and relearn to get better at navigating change in our squiggly careers, skills you can develop to support you during career change and practical ideas for action when creating a portfolio approach to careers.

Find out more about April's work here: https://aprilrinne.com/

More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:

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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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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#378 Year in review Dec 19, 2023

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This week, Helen and Sarah use reflection questions to discuss their impact and insights from the year. If you're a regular listener, you'll hear what happens behind-the-squiggly-scenes and if you're new, you'll get some coaching questions to end your year with and set 2024 up for success. Download the podsheet with the questions at www.amazingif.com and read Helen and Sarah's latest Harvard Business Review article for more end of year inspiration https://hbr.org/2023/12/how-to-create-your-own-year-in-review?ab=HP-latest-text-2

More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:

1.Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint

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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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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#377 How to create team connection Dec 12, 2023

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This week, Helen talks to musician and author James Sills about how singing can be used to create connection in teams. Together they explore the insights in James' book 'Do Sing' and his experiences of working with teams all over the world.

As part of Amazing If's 'teach a team to sing' campaign, at the end of the episode you'll also hear a squiggly sing-a-long with the Sales team at Cochlear.

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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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#376 How to let go of guilt at work Dec 05, 2023

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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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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#375 10 Career Quick Wins Nov 28, 2023

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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 helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

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