Hello and welcome to this week's Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen and I'm joined virtually by my co-host Sarah.

Hi everyone. So this week we're actually going to be talking about disagreement and conflict at work, but with a particular focus on the virtual world of work and how that maybe affects how we manage our disagreements and how that

might cause conflicts to arise in a slightly different way. And as well as Sarah and myself

talking about this and sharing the tips from our experiences and our research, we're also

going to be hearing in this episode from somebody called Amy Gallo. And Amy is the author of the

Harvard Business View's Guide to Dealing

with Conflict. And she's also a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review. And I had the

opportunity to talk to her just before lockdown. And she's a real expert in this space. I'm glad

that we can bring some of her insights on how to manage conflict as well. And before we get started,

we just want to let you know about a couple of things that we're really excited about that you might be excited conflict as well. And before we get started, we just want to let you know about

a couple of things that we're really excited about that you might be excited about as well. So this

week's Ask the Expert's episode is with Simon Sinek. And if you're not one of the 40 million people

who have watched his TED talk, he is an author and a speaker who focuses on purpose. And his book, Start with Why, has sold over 1 million copies, which is pretty amazing. And we talk to him about purpose at work and what it means to have purpose in your career and how that can help you. So that's out on Thursday and want to listen to. It's a short 10 minute episode and it's one of the skills that we think are most important now for people at working in their careers. And our second bit of

exciting news is that we've been nominated for the Best Business Podcasts at the British

Podcast Awards. Did do-da-doo. I feel like if we were a really good podcast, we'd have a sound

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Just exciting times. We obviously were really passionate about the podcast and the community

that's building around it. So hopefully, hopefully you might want to

engage and celebrate some of those things with us as well. But back to this week's topic,

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