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Squiggly Careers
Squiggly Careers is a weekly podcast that will help you take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Squiggly Careers. (https://www.squigglycareers.com/), Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, together they cover all things work: from how to manage stress and overcome your confidence gremlins to micro-aggressions and discovering your strengths. Each episode is full of ideas, actions, hints, and tips that you can put into practice straight away. Every so often they take a break…
Episodes
Squiggly Careers#384 How to use deliberate practice to drive your development
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…
Squiggly Careers#383 How pausing increases performance
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…
Squiggly Careers#382 How introverts and extroverts work better together
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…
Squiggly Careers381 How to start from scratch
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…
Squiggly Careers#380 How to grow your role
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…
Squiggly Careers#379 Career Change
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…
Squiggly Careers#378 Year in review
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…
Squiggly Careers#377 How to create team connection
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…
Squiggly Careers#376 How to let go of guilt at work
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…
Squiggly Careers#375 10 Career Quick Wins
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…
Squiggly Careers#374 How biases can get in the way of your career development
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…
Squiggly Careers#373 Ask the Expert: Failure
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…
Squiggly Careers#372 How to think strategically
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…
Squiggly Careers#371 How to increase your clarity
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…
Squiggly Careers#370 Meaning, Motivation & Money (Live)
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…
Squiggly Careers#369 How to develop a high performing team
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…
Squiggly Careers#368 How to perform under pressure
This week Helen and Sarah talk about pressure and the tipping point between productive pressure and pressure that negatively affects your performance. They…
Squiggly Careers#367 How to increase your learning agility
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…
Squiggly Careers#366 Ask the expert: Sensitivity
This week, Helen talks to author Jenn Granneman about Sensitivity and the benefit sensitive people bring to businesses. Together they discuss what it means to…
Squiggly Careers#365 How to let go of ladder like language
The words we use at work affect the quality of our career conversations and the way we approach our development. When we use 'ladder-like' language, we limit…
Squiggly Careers#364 How to improve your judgement
Judgement isn't a skill that often gets put in the spotlight, but it's something we regularly rely on at work. Decisions about people, projects, priorities and…
Squiggly Careers#363 How to make time to think
This week Helen and Sarah discuss what we need to do to create more time to think in our week and why it matters so much for our development. They have lots of…
Squiggly Careers#362 Squiggly Career Story: Pinky Lilani
In this weeks episode Sarah talks to Pinky Lilani, CBE about her squiggly career story. Pinky shares how kindness, courage and people helping people have…
Squiggly Careers#361 Skills Sprint: Strengths
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about strengths and how practising strengths stories can increase your…
Squiggly Careers#360 Skills Sprint: Personal Brand
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about building your personal brand and the importance of reflecting on what…
Squiggly Careers#359 Skill Sprint: Grit
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about grit and how the 4Ps of purpose, positivity, people and progress can…
Squiggly Careers#358 Skills Sprint: Leadership
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about leadership and how to prioritise involving rather than solving and the…
Squiggly Careers#357 Skills Sprint: Conflict
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about conflict and what you can do to fix fiction fast. There are 20 episodes…
Squiggly Careers#356 Skills Sprint: Creativity
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…
Squiggly Careers#355 Skills Sprint: Questioning
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…
Squiggly Careers#354 Skills Sprint: Negotiation
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…
Squiggly Careers#353 Skills Sprint: Assertiveness
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…
Squiggly Careers#352 Skills Sprint: Curiosity
In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series Helen and Sarah talk about curiosity and share their framework for having curious career…
Squiggly Careers#351 Skills Sprint: Resilience
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…
Squiggly Careers#350 Skills Sprint: Listening
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…
Squiggly Careers#349 Skills Sprint: Critical thinking
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…
Squiggly Careers#348 Skills Sprint: Self-belief
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…
Squiggly Careers#347 Skills Sprint: Conversations
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…
Squiggly Careers#346 Skills Sprint: Experimenting
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…
Squiggly Careers#345 Skills Sprint: Self-awareness
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…
Squiggly Careers#344 Skills Sprint: Prioritising
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…
Squiggly Careers#343 Skills Sprint: Asking for help
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…
Squiggly Careers#342 Skills Sprint: Feedback
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…
Squiggly Careers#341 Ask the expert: High Impact Players
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…
Squiggly Careers#340 How to release your (useful) rebel
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…
Squiggly Careers#339 How to make time for career development
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…
Squiggly Careers#338 Ask the Expert: Happy High Status
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…
Squiggly Careers#337 Ideas for team ice-breakers and energisers
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…
Squiggly Careers#336 How to avoid the ‘AND overload’
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…
Squiggly Careers#335 How to stop multitasking
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…
Squiggly Careers#334 How to stand out to senior people
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…
Squiggly Careers#333 Ask the Expert: Leadership
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…
Squiggly Careers#332 How to get comfortably vulnerable at work
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…
Squiggly Careers#331 How to use AI to support your career development
This week Helen and Sarah are trying out AI tools to determine which are actually helpful for your career development. From applications to interviews…
Squiggly Careers#330 How to derisk your career decisions
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…
Squiggly Careers#329 Neurodiversity at work
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…
Squiggly Careers#328 How to turn hard moments into helpful learning
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…
Squiggly Careers#327 How to quieten your inner critic
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…
Squiggly Careers#326 How to develop the 5 skills to succeed in a squiggly career
This week, Helen and Sarah talk through the skills from their bestselling book The Squiggly Career. They share what they are, why they matter and ideas for…
Squiggly Careers#325 How to increase your visibility at work
We can't always rely on our hard work being seen by the people who are important for our development. When we increase our visibility it leads to more…