#110 How to ask for help

Squiggly Careers

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Management, Careers, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Many of us struggle to ask for the help we need to succeed at work.Often we fear what asking for help might say about us and our competence or assume that we can fix everything ourselves! In squiggly careers this will hold us back, preventing us from tapping into the energy and expertise around us and using our own talents on what we do best not just what needs to be done. In this week's episode, Helen and Sarah talk about the realities of asking for help at work and share their top tips for finding authentic ways to get the help you need. If you'd like to come along to the Squiggly Careers Live on January 20th, get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/squiggly-careers-book-launch-live-podcast-tickets-83247039135 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host Helen.
0:08.0	Hi everyone. And every week we discuss a different work topic to do with our squiggly careers,
0:13.5	whether it's getting promoted, going for interviews, suffering for imposter syndrome or everything in
0:19.0	between. And last week actually actually, we talked about the fact
0:22.1	we'd done 109 episodes and almost jokes that we didn't feel that anyone had probably listened
0:27.3	to all 109, but we'd love to know if you had. And it turns out a few people actually have,
0:31.8	haven't they? Yeah, I've ordered to particularly, someone just caught me tonight as well. There must
0:37.2	have been sort of listened to it. It was super sunbeam on Instagram who was like, yes, I have listened to all 109. One of, I don't know, Sarah, what do you reckon? About 10 people that got in touch with us last week to say yes, we're one of those people. So thank you. So I feel really honoured that people have listened to all 109 episodes. That's quite a lot of time.
0:55.9	So thank you very much. And also the person, Super Sunbeam, who messaged me to say about the episodes,
1:01.1	also gave us some feedback, which I thought was really kind. They said, I think you've got more
1:05.2	natural and relaxed over time with a big thumbs up. So I think that's a very nice piece of feedback.
1:10.4	Thank you.
1:11.7	And actually somebody said when people discover us, they then get excited about the fact
1:15.9	they have more commutes in the week to keep listening, which I thought, it does make me
1:21.4	a bit intimidated though. I think all the pressure, if this is what people are listening to on
1:24.6	their commutes. And this week we're going to be chatting about asking for help.
1:29.4	And I think it's something that we know lots of people struggle with.
1:33.0	And it's a topic that can feel really hard.
1:35.5	Almost I think sometimes the more you need help, the harder it is to ask for it maybe.
1:40.2	So we'll talk about that in a minute, a bit about why it's relevant squiggly careers.
1:44.0	A couple of our stories around us asking for help or not successfully and not so successfully
1:48.3	and at least five hints and tips.
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