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#164 The Power of Rest with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Aug 19, 2020

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This is episode 3 in our Setting Yourself Up for Success series and today's topic is rest. Helen interviews author Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on why we need to prioritise rest and how practically to invest in rest when work feels consuming. They talk about the importance of deliberate rest, the passion-paradox, why hobbies matter and our need to nap!

To find out more about Alex's work head to: http://www.strategy.rest/

Details on his books can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Soojung-Kim-Pang/e/B001KHJ91I?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1597749340&sr=1-3

To enter the competion to win a signed copy of shorter (open to August 28th), head here: https://www.instagram.com/amazingif/

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#163 How to build your brand with Bianca Miller-Cole Aug 18, 2020

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This is episode number 2 in the Setting Yourself Up for Success series. In this episode, Helen talks to entreprenuer and personal branding expert Biana Miller-Cole about the importance of building your personal brand and practical tips for how to do it. They also talk through 3 listeners personal brands and offer tips for improvement.

To find out more about Bianca head to: www.biancamiller.uk

Bianca is running a mastermind mentoring session on the topic of 'Personal Brand & Company Brand' on the 5th September. The sessions are created for business owners but everyone is welcome. Find out more: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/byron-amp-bianca-entrepreneurs-amp-business-mentors-14825079175

You can read about Bianca's book here: https://www.selfmadebook.uk/

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#162 Understanding Your Strengths with Marcus Buckingham Aug 17, 2020

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This is the first episode in the Squiggly Careers - Setting Yourself Up For Success series. This five part series covers topics including personal branding, rest and speaking-up. Today, Helen talks to strengths expert Marcus Buckingham about what the real definition of a strength is, how we can understand what we're best at and how we can use that insight to manage our careers.

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#161 Job crafting - how to redesign your role Aug 10, 2020

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Job crafting is a proven activity to increase our engagement, performance and wellbeing at work and in this week's Squiggly Careers podcast, Sarah and Helen talk about how to put the theory into action. They discuss the benefits of job crafting, the areas to focus on and 5 specific actions you can take to start to redesign your role.

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#160 Conversations about race at work Aug 04, 2020

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This week Helen talks to 3 different guests about how everyone can engage more openly, actively and positively in conversations about race at work. She talks to Zahra Mohamoud, campaign manager for Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, Vanessa Belleau, founder of High Fifteen and Tolu Farinto, Head of Ethnicity and Social Mobility at Utopia. They discuss how to overcome fear of 'getting it wrong', examples of organisations creating long-term cultural change and how to approach conversations with empathy.

For more information about this week's guest, see links below:

Business in the Community - Race at Work Charter: https://www.bitc.org.uk/race/

Zahra Mohamoud: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahramohamoud/

Vanessa Belleau: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessabelleau/

High Fifteen: https://www.highfifteen.com/

Tolu Farinto: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toluwani-farinto-24119467

Utopia - Culture Change Agency: https://www.weareutopia.co/

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#159 How to find your flow at work Jul 28, 2020

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This week Helen and Sarah are talking about 'flow'. They discuss what it means to be flow at work and why it matters. They talk through Miahly Csikzentmihalyi's 8 characteristics of flow and share 4 actions to find your flow and spend more time in flow.

For resources and links for this episode, head to www.amazingif.com. If you'd like to be part of a live discussion about this podcast, you can join Sarah for PodPlus on July 30th at 9am.

For full details of this free session, head to www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus

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#158 Why we need humour at work and how we can create more space to smile Jul 21, 2020

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In this episode Helen and Sarah talk about the importance of levity, humour and laughter at work with Naomi Bagdonas and Jennifer Aaker, the authors of 'Humor, Seriously'. Plus, Sarah talks to Lynne Parker, founder and chief executive of Funny Women and Deb Leary OBE, CEO of Forensic Pathways about how they use humour in their day to day working lives.

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#157 How to prevent pessimism and practice optimism at work Jul 14, 2020

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In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss why optimistics do better at work (and in life) and the difference between expectant and explainer optimists. And together they ask the question if optimism is a skill we can all learn what does this look like in practise? We finish the episode sharing 5 practical actions listeners can take to add some optimism into your day to day work and over the course of your career.

Don't forget, you can join our weekly PodPlus sessions where we share frameworks and models you can put into action. These 30 minute, interactive Zoom sessions are free to join and you can register for them here: https://www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus

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#156 How to be an ally at work Jul 07, 2020

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This week Sarah talks to Leyya Sattar and Roshni Goyate, the co-founders of The Other Box, about what it means to be an ally, what gets in the way and the practical actions we can all take to be effective allies at work.

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#155 Procrastination at work (and how to prevent it) Jun 30, 2020

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In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss why we procrastinate and 5 ideas and actions to help prevent procrastination, including monk mode, the pomodoro technique and swallowing the frog. And as an added bonus Helen finishes the episode by sharing her top productivity hints & tips.

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