Squiggly Careers

Profilers can help you understand yourself, find words for your strengths and choose where to focus your development. But your results are clues to explore, rather than labels that limit you.
In this episode, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from three profilers: Lynda Gratton’s Living the 100-Year Life diagnostic, 16Personalities and the Squiggly Skills Profiler. They share their own results, what they found useful and what they questioned, with practical ideas to turn what you learn about yourself into action.
🎯 What You'll Learn– Understand the benefits and common pitfalls of using career profilers– Discover Lynda Gratton's 100-year life diagnostic to assess your life threads– Learn how to use 16Personalities to identify your strengths and blind spots– Find out how to use profiling data to communicate your value on LinkedIn– Explore how to map team profiles to identify gaps in diversity of thought– Try the new Squiggly Careers Skills Profiler to identify your super skill and gap for growth
📚 Resources mentioned:-100-Year Life diagnostic: https://www.livingthe100yearlife.com/assessment-16Personalities: https://www.16personalities.com/-Squiggly Careers Skills Profiler: www.squigglyskills.com
For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com
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When your week gets busy, do you find yourself dropping the things that help you feel good? It can be easy to put rest, support and time outside work on hold just when you need them most.

In this Squiggly Career Shortcut, Helen shares six small actions you can build into your week to support your resilience. Pick one or two that feel useful to you and try doing them regularly, before things start to feel difficult.

🎯 In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

– Find something to look forward to, even in a hard week

– Work out what help you need and ask for it

– Notice and celebrate your wins

– Find someone you can talk to when things feel difficult

– Protect the rest and recovery that works for you

– Make time for your world outside work

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Is something at work feeling harder than it needs to be? It could be a meeting that takes too long, a decision that goes back and forth, or a process with more steps than it needs.

This week, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from The Friction Project by Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao. They explore how to spot the friction that slows you down, what you could subtract to make work easier, and why some friction is worth keeping.

🎯 In this episode, you’ll learn how to:

– Spot where friction is showing up in your work

– Ask your team what’s making their work harder

– Subtract steps, meetings or handoffs that aren’t helping

– Add useful friction through better questions and saying the hard thing

For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com.

More Squiggly Career support:

1. Download our free career tools: https://www.squigglycareers.com/toolkit/

2. Sign up for our Skills Sprints: https://www.squigglycareers.com/squigglysprints/

3. Sign up for our weekly Squiggly Careers newsletter: www.squiggly.me

4. Order Learn Like a Lobster: https://www.squigglycareers.com/books/
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In this shortcut, Helen, talks about a matrix that can help you to understand where your ambition is right now and what is the most effective action to take to support your development.

🎯 What You'll Learn
- that ambition is individual
- where your ambition in today
- what action to take to activate your ambition

For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com

Need some more squiggly career support?
1. Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/
2. Sign up for our Skills Sprints: https://www.amazingif.com/squigglysprints/
3. Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Newsletter, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/squigglynewsletter_pod
4. Order our new book Learn Like a Lobster: https://www.amazingif.com/books/
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Could putting more constraints on your career actually create more possibilities?

In this episode, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from David Epstein's book (Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better) to explore how choosing your own constraints can help you think differently and more creatively about your career. They experiment with constraints across six areas of career development, from learning and strengths to confidence and future possibilities.

🎯 What You'll Learn
– Why constraints can help you think more creatively
– How to experiment with constraints in your career
– How to focus your learning, strengths and values
– How constraints can help with confidence and networking
– How to explore your future possibilities differently

📚Resources mentioned
David Epstein – Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
https://davidepstein.com/inside-the-box/

Adam Morgan & Mark Barden – A Beautiful Constraint
https://www.eatbigfish.com/thinking/a-beautiful-constraint

Squiggly Careers podcast episode #256 – You Coach You: Overcoming Constraints
https://www.amazingif.com/listen/you-coach-you-overcoming-constraints/

Squiggly Careers podcast episode #220 – How to Explore Your Progression Possibilities

For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email: [helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com](mailto:helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com)

Need some more squiggly career support?

1. Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/
2. Sign up for our Skills Sprints: https://www.amazingif.com/squigglysprints/
3. Sign up for our Squiggly Careers Newsletter, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools: https://bit.ly/squigglynewsletter_pod
4. Order our new book Learn Like a Lobster: https://www.amazingif.com/books/
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