Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and share lots of practical ideas for action and tools to try out that we hope will leave you and to be honest us with a little bit more confidence, clarity and control.

And this week we're talking about how to find more freedom in your work.

And when we think about freedom, it feels relevant, I think, for all of us.

Because the more you dive into freedom, the more you realize this is a universal need that we all have.

Which does make sense. Like, who doesn't want

to feel like they've got freedom in the work that they do? We want to feel like we've got

the ability to be in control, to direct ourselves about, you know, how we work and what we work on.

It makes sense that this is something that's important for all of us.

But what's so interesting is that often our organisations have been built over time in a way that

creates command and control within an organisational structure, but sort of takes it away

from individuals. So sort of it takes the control and the

freedom from individuals and sort of gives that control to like the structure of an organisation.

Now most organisations, I think, are moving away from that very traditional ladder like command

and control world where essentially you do what you're told in the way that you're told

and it's all about being compliant because I think most organisations recognise now that that's

not how anyone does their best work and there is a really interesting article that we'll link to

about organisations that have been on a real mission to sort of provide a more liberating environment.

They actually call them like sort of liberating organisations.

And what I found interesting about these case studies that I was reading is lots of them were very

traditional organisations.

So they had been more command and control and had made a very conscious effort to go,

we can see that that's not going to help us be successful in the future.

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