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 less than seven

minutes long that we hope we're going to help you to build some career development momentum.

In every episode we talk about a squiggly skill, what it is and why it matters, share an idea for action each and give you a go-to guru and a podcast episode so you can learn more.

And we want you to turn your skills sprint into a learning streak.

And so for everyone who completes a 20-day learning street, we'll be offering you a free five skills to succeed in a squiggly career virtual workshop

in September. If you post about your progress on social and taggers at Amazing If and we'll be in touch

to tell you more. So in this sprint we're going to be talking about the maybe tricky topic of

conflict, which is a really important squiggly career skill because it's very likely in our squiggly

careers that we're going to be dealing with a bit more difference because we're working

with lots of different people, lots of different places.

Difference can sometimes feel difficult.

It can lead to debate.

And if we're not able to manage that in a really constructive way, then that conflict can get in our way. And so the better

able we are to get comfortable with conflict, then the better we able, able we are to succeed with

all of that difference and difference that we're likely to face. So conflict is one of my

confidence gremlins. So confidence gremlins are beliefs that hold you back.

I would just like everybody to get on all of the time in my ideal world.

But that's not how the world works.

And also that would limit our learning if that was how the world works.

So rationally and objectively, I know that.

But this is something, this is a skill that I've had to work on very intentionally

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