In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about creativity and share how to use AI to accelerate creativity and a technique to use in teams to generate new ideas. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our ...
Aug 21, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about questioning and how to use different styles of questioning in different situations. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide her...
Aug 18, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about negotiation and share tools to try out to take control of negotiation conversations. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide he...
Aug 17, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about assertiveness and share ideas for how to respond in challenging situations. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https...
Aug 16, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about curiosity and share their framework for having curious career conversations. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: http...
Aug 15, 2023•6 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about resilience and share their ideas on how to reduce enmeshment by focusing on your world outside of work. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Stea...
Aug 14, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about listening and share their ideas on how to do an interruption audit. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit....
Aug 11, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about the skill of critical thinking and share their ideas on how to practice using problem statements. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sp...
Aug 10, 2023•6 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about self-belief and share their ideas on how to move from limiting to limitless beliefs. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide h...
Aug 09, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about the skill of conversations and share their ideas on taking a shift vs. support response and having a set of go-to-curious questions. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up f...
Aug 08, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about experimenting and share their ideas on how to use the 'pitch, prototype and pilot' approach to make it easier to get started. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to r...
Aug 07, 2023•6 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about self-awareness and share their ideas on how to use contrasting questions to support your reflection and understand your reactions. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up fo...
Aug 04, 2023•6 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about prioritisation and share their ideas on how to use a 'win watch' to keep you focused and the urgent/important matrix to create clarity. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-u...
Aug 03, 2023•7 min
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about Asking for help and share their ideas on how to be more specific about the support you need. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint ...
Aug 02, 2023•7 min
This episode is the first in a series of 20 episodes as part of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint. The sprint is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. In this episode, Helen and Sarah talk about Feedback and share how strengths spotting and radical candor can help to improve your approach. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Aug 01, 2023•7 min
In this episode, Sarah speaks to researcher and author of Impact players, Liz Wiseman. Together they discuss the concept of High Impact players- people who make a difference in their roles regardless of where they are in their career or what expertise they have. Sarah and Liz discuss the role of pragmatism in the workplace, how to play with your passion rather than be pushed by it, and how to adopt a 'create don't wait' mindset to increase your impact. Sign-up to August's Squiggly Careers Skills...
Jul 25, 2023•42 min
This week Helen and Sarah are talking about rebellion and when its constructive for your career. They discuss the difference between being a useful rebel and a random rebel and how to spot opportunities to challenge the status quo. There are lots of ideas for action for you to be more confident in releasing your inner rebel at work. Sign-up to August's Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenan...
Jul 18, 2023•33 min
This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how to stop time being a blocker for career development. They share ideas from their latest Harvard Business Review article to give you lots of practical tools and approaches to try out. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i 3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www...
Jul 11, 2023•27 min
In this week's episode Sarah talks to writer, journalist, stand up comedian and all round squiggly careerist, Viv Groskop. Together they explore a concept called 'happy high status', a new take on confidence which feels relatable and relevant to everyone no matter where your self belief is starting from. Sarah and Viv talk about how to escape the enemy of happy high status (judgement or fear of judgement), useful words and ways to describe how you want to show up and how to dip a toe in the wate...
Jul 04, 2023•44 min
The moments when teams come together are crucial for bonding and belonging, but we can get stuck in a rut of doing the same things in the same way. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about lots of different ideas to include in your team meetings and moments that can help you to get the most of time spent together. Whether you want to get closer, work smarter or grow better they've got practical ideas you can try out. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBoo...
Jun 27, 2023•54 min
If you ever feel conflicted by competing priorities, you are not alone! You might be struggling to balance short-term AND long-term thinking. You might be feeling frustrated trying to juggle investing in your development AND getting the day job done. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about what we can do to avoid 'AND overload' and how we can all develop 'AND agility'. In this episode, you'll hear lots of practical ideas for action to help you get started. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers...
Jun 20, 2023•32 min
This week, Helen and Sarah tackle the topic of multi-tasking and why it's actually a myth! The reality of multi-tasking is that it's actually task-switching and the more we do it, the worse it is for our work. Together Helen and Sarah talk about practical ways you can spend more time in mono-tasking mode, increasing the impact of your outputs and working in a way that is better for your brain. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0...
Jun 13, 2023•38 min
In this episode, Helen and Sarah talk about the role that senior people play in your career development and what you can do to make sure you stand out. They discuss the fears that can keep people from building relationships they need and share 10 ideas for action to help you to get closer to and more credible with senior stakeholders. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest sq...
Jun 06, 2023•41 min
In this week's episode Sarah explores leadership with Rob Goffee, Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School and co-author of the brilliant leadership book Why should anyone be led by you? Together they discuss how to approach answering what can initially appear to be a confronting question, the difference between management and leadership and why it's useful to borrow brilliance from social anthropology. You can also get a free copy of The Squiggly Career videobook...
May 30, 2023•45 min
Vulnerability is often accepted as a good thing at work but it's not always easy to know how to do it. This week Helen and Sarah talk about what vulnerability at work actually means and how to be vulnerable authentically and effectively. They share their own insights and reflections and practical ideas you can try out individually and in teams. You can also get a free copy of The Squiggly Career videobook! This offer is for May 2023 only - details below: - Head to: https://litvideobooks.com/the-...
May 23, 2023•48 min
This week Helen and Sarah are trying out AI tools to determine which are actually helpful for your career development. From applications to interviews, presentations to problem solving they have got some recommended resources to support your squiggly career. You can also get a free copy of The Squiggly Career videobook! This offer is for May 2023 only - details below: - Head to: https://litvideobooks.com/the-squiggly-career - Click 'Buy' - Check out and create an account - Enter: SQUIGGLYCAREERS...
May 16, 2023•42 min
In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss how to derisk career decisions, whether it's changing jobs, industries, taking the leap to work for yourself or changing career. They talk about 6 different types of risk that often get in the way of making decisions and how these risks can result in your career stalling and getting stuck. For each risk they discuss a different resolution, that can support us to make progress even when a decision feels scary. Together they also suggest ideas for what...
May 09, 2023•45 min
This week, Helen is joined by Dr Samantha Hiew, Founder of ADHD Girls and David Pugh-Jones, Trustee and Founding Member of one of the fastest-growing UK charities, Neurodiversity in Business to discuss neurodiversity at work. Together they talk about language and labels, the everyday reality of being neurodiverse in a workplace designed by and for neurotypical people and what we can do differently to create more inclusive ways of working that help everyone to be at their best. More ways to learn...
May 02, 2023•38 min
In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss how hard moments at work can help us learn. They explore how to repond when a hard moment happens (especially when it's unexpected), how to get perspective after the moment and training our brains so that in the future we can feel good about how we show up in a hard moment. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career to...
Apr 25, 2023•29 min
Our inner critic is the negative voice in our head that makes us feel smaller or 'less than' in situations at work. It's a common way people hold themselves back. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how you can quieten your inner critic so it doesn't get in the way of your career growth and share practical ideas you can put into action. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the lates...
Apr 18, 2023•39 min
