#385 Ask the Expert: Problem Solving

Squiggly Careers

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Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks Ask the Expert episode Sarah talks to author and adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, Cheryl Strauss Einhorn about problem solving and how to make smart decisions. Sarah and Cheryl talk about 5 different problem-solver profiles and how these profiles provide useful perspective for improving your decision making skills. Together, they also discuss the importance of self-awareness when problem-solving, decision-making myths, and go through practical strategies to help you problem solve everyday. Find out about Cheryl's work: https://app.areamethod.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Sign up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools 2. Sign up for our monthly Squiggly Career Calendar 3. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’ 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 Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:06.2	This week is one of our Ask the Expert episodes and you're going to hear me in conversation with Cheryl Einhorn.
0:13.0	Together we're going to be talking about problem solving and I asked Cheryl to join me on the podcast because we've done a bit of work together.
0:21.1	I then watched her give a talk and what was really impressive for me and where she really stands
0:26.6	out is that she's someone who listens and absolutely wants to be as useful as she can be
0:32.2	in helping us all to get better at problem solving. And I just feel like it's one of those
0:36.3	skills that we all have in
0:37.7	common. So whether it's smaller work problems that you're navigating every week or a bigger
0:43.5	career dilemma that you're trying to figure out and problem solve your way through, I hope
0:48.7	everyone finds this episode really useful. I'll be back at the end to say goodbye, but in the meantime, I hope you really enjoy
0:55.2	listening. Cheryl, thank you so much for joining us on the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm really
1:04.5	looking forward to our conversation today. Thank you so much for having me. It's such a pleasure
1:09.1	to be with you today.
1:16.7	And so we're going to dive deeply into this topic of decision making and problem solving.
1:23.3	And in our squiggly careers, I think we are solving problems every day, every week, all of the time.
1:27.2	There's always too many problems and not enough time, right? I think that's how we probably all feel.
1:31.6	Some of these problems that you might be grappling with could be about your career.
1:36.7	You're listening now and you've got some big problems that you're thinking around where could my career take me or perhaps you feel like you're stalling or a bit stuck. Or maybe you're just thinking, well, how do I get better at problem solving in my day-to-day job,
1:48.6	you know, with the problems that my manager sends my way or the problem of prioritising.
1:52.2	So it's certainly not a topic that will feel unfamiliar.
1:57.2	But I'm interested to start by hearing from you, what gets in the way?
2:00.6	Why are we all not naturally brilliant at problem solving?
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