In our final week of Squiggly Career Summer School, we talked about how to explore your progression possibilities. You can watch back our 30 minute Instagram Live discussion here. In Squiggly Careers, tools like career plans can hold us back. They are too rigid for us to be resilient and fix us to a future […]
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Week 3 of Squiggly Career Summer school is all about how to build your belief. You can watch back our 30 minute Instagram Live session here. The ups, downs, choices and challenges we face in squiggly careers can test us and impact our confidence. Building your belief helps you to be braver and navigate through […]
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As part of our commitment to making careers better for everyone, this year we’ve opened up our Squiggly Career Summer School and we’re running a series of live sessions on Instagram to share tool and tips to support career development. Week 1 was all about knowing your values and putting them into action. You can […]
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As part of our commitment to making careers better for everyone, this year we’ve opened up our Squiggly Career Summer School and we’re running a series of live sessions on Instagram to share tool and tips to support career development. Week 1 was all about knowing your values and putting them into action. Values are […]
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We recently asked for people for ideas of who they would like to hear from on the podcast. Several of the requests were for people we had already spoken to! We took that as feedback that we needed to do a better job of curating some of the conversations we’d had with people! So, here […]
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Text to Audio The great thing about Squiggly Careers (one of them at least!), is that we don’t have to follow someone else’s path. In traditional, linear careers, there was a lot less variety and ability to personalise our career. Our future was predictable and to some extent standardised. Stepping off the path to do […]
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Does your day look anything like mine? Email. Meeting. Reading email in meeting. Eating in meeting. Grab coffee. Check email in queue. Need I go on? I hazard a guess that many of us are seemingly trapped in this cycle of ‘doing’. As work mounts up and time flies by, our addiction to back-to-back working […]
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Our careers are increasingly uncertain. Changes within our industries, customer bases and operating models – combined with economic uncertainty and the impact of technology and automation on the jobs we do and the way we do them – are making careers much harder to predict and plan. Instead of seeking certainty in our careers for […]
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How do you feel when someone gives you feedback at work? Are you open, receptive and reflective or do you feel threatened and defensive? What about when you’re faced with a situation that is challenging? Do you leap into to it without fear and think about how you can learn and grow or do you […]
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I spend a lot of time thinking and engaging with others about the changing shape of work and the skills we can all invest in now so that we can continue to be successful, fulfilled and make a positive impact through our work. Sometimes I see things within organisations and the working environment that jar […]
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As a manager, I’ve always felt proud of the teams I’ve built and how I help the people in those teams to grow. While there is an awful lot for me to develop as a leader, developing teams and people is a ‘super strength’ for me, and one of my most important motivators at work. […]
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Lots of people we meet on our courses are stuck on one question: What job do I REALLY want to do? It’s such a big question, that it becomes a blocker. People get stuck trying to answer it and don’t explore options, believing there is one single ‘right’ answer to find. The bad news is…..that […]
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