Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where we

help you to navigate the ups and downs and ins and outs of your Squiggly career by taking the

topic that you probably need a bit of support with and so do we and sharing ideas for action

and different insights that we think will help you and your development.

And today's episode is the third part of our four-part series all around soft skills.

So we were inspired by a report produced by the World Economic Forum, which focus on the 10

skills that we all need to focus on for our development by 2025. And we look through that

list and thought, what haven't we talked a lot about? And what would we like to learn a bit more

about? And that was the focus. So we have done one episode already on originality. We have done

one on critical thinking. And today's topic that we're going to talk about is on social

influence.

So we've approached each of these episodes with a similar structure,

which we hope just helps you as you're listening.

We start off with a quote that stood out for us from the book.

We then talk about three things that we've learnt,

who we think might want to read the book if you want to dive a bit deeper and an action for you to take if you want to increase your skills in this area. So if you want to get better at social

influence, we'll suggest and recommend something that you might want to try out based on what we've

learnt from our reading this week. And I think it's fair to say our reading this week has taken us outside of our comfort zones

into new territories as we've been learning about social influence.

So tell us about the book that you've read, Helen.

Well, my book, I take a deep breath, is a very deep breath book, everyone,

is the Techniques of Social Influence, Subtitle,

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