#345 Skills Sprint: Self-awareness

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about self-awareness and share their ideas on how to use contrasting questions to support your reflection and understand your reactions. There are 20 episodes in the Skills Sprint and each is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. Each episode in the series is less that 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and go-to-gurus on a specific topic. Sign-up for to receive our Ready, Steady, Sprint guide here: https://bit.ly/scskills-sprint If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast. This episode is part of our Skills Sprint series. We've recorded 20 episodes. Each of them are less than seven minutes long and we hope they'll help you to build some career development momentum. In every episode we talk about a squiggly skill, what it is and why it matters.
0:26.4	We share an idea for action from each of us and give you a go-to guru and a podcast episode so you can learn more.
0:27.9	We'd really like you to turn your skills sprint into a learning streak.
0:31.4	And so for everyone who completes 20 days of their streak, we'll be offering you a free
0:35.6	five skills to succeed in a squiggly career virtual
0:38.7	workshop in September. If you post about your progress on social and you tag us at Amazing If,
0:44.4	and we'll be in touch to tell you more. And in this sprint, we're going to be talking about
0:48.8	self-awareness. And self-awareness is a really important skill in a squiggly career because
0:53.7	there's so much happening.
0:55.2	We can get distracted by other people's opinions and expectations.
0:59.3	There are shiny objects that look really appealing on the surface, like job titles and grades and all that kind of stuff.
1:05.7	But unless we dive a bit deeper and we understand what's really driving us,
1:09.5	they aren't always the decisions that are
1:11.2	going to make us happier for longer. And when we're talking about self-awareness, it's not just about
1:16.0	understanding yourself, which I think sometimes is the assumption we make. It's also about
1:20.5	understanding how other people see us too. It's sort of a two-way thing we're trying to work on
1:25.7	with self-awareness. So my idea for action here
1:29.0	is something that I think you can do by yourself, but also works really well within a team.
1:33.9	And that's to ask yourself some contrast questions. So these are questions that are designed
1:39.0	to almost be at either end of the spectrum to help reveal something about you and also about all of you.
1:46.6	And you get to choose, you know, what you share with other people.
1:49.5	But we thought the best way to bring these to life is to have a go at them.
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