#358 Skills Sprint: Leadership

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint series, Helen and Sarah talk about leadership and how to prioritise involving rather than solving and the importance of closing the say-do gap. 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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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast and this episode is part of our Squiggly Skills Sprint series where we've recorded 20 episodes. Each of them are less than seven minutes long to help you build some career development momentum. In each episode, Sarah and I are going to talk about a squiggly skill, what it is and why it matters.
0:22.5	We're going to share an idea for action from each of us, give you a go-to guru and a podcast
0:27.5	episode so that you can listen and learn a bit more. And we really, really want you to turn
0:32.3	this squiggly skills sprint into your own learning streak. And for anyone who lets us know
0:37.2	how they're getting on and who
0:38.4	completes the 20 day streak, we can't prove that, so we trust you. But if you tag us that you've
0:43.9	done the sprint, you've completed the streak, then what we will do is we'll get in touch with you
0:47.2	and we will invite you to a free five skills to succeed virtual workshop that Sarah and I are going
0:51.9	to be running in September so we can help you dive even deeper into the world of squiggly careers. All you've got to do is tag at Amazing If
0:59.1	in any of your social posts and then we'll be in touch. In this skill sprint, we're talking
1:03.5	about leadership. And I think often in ladder like careers, leadership was all about your
1:10.3	position on that ladder, how high up
1:12.8	the hierarchy you were, whereas now I think in Squiggly careers, we all find ourselves leading in
1:18.7	some way at some point, whether it's project, cross-functional groups. And actually, we did a podcast
1:24.3	about when to lead and when to follow. And I think our roles in organisations are much more fluid now than they've ever been before.
1:33.3	And my favourite definition of leadership, and someone laughed at me the other day when I said this,
1:36.9	they were like, who has a favourite definition of leadership?
1:38.9	I was like, I do.
1:41.2	But it comes from Rob Jophe and Gareth Jones in their book, Why Should Anyone Be Led
1:46.1	By You? And they describe leadership as be yourself more with skill. And I really like this
1:53.6	idea of being a leader or becoming a leader or developing your leadership skills is not about
1:58.7	changing yourself. It's about almost the active
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