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Squiggly Careers

#416 Skills Sprint: Strategic Thinking

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 6 of 20 in the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint. Today, Helen and Sarah talk about strategic thinking and how to zoom out and look ahead to make sure you're moving in the right direction. New to our Sprint? Our Skills Sprint is designed to help you create a regular learning habit to support your squiggly career development. ⁠ ⁠ Each episode in the series is less than 7 minutes long and has ideas for action and recommended resources on a specific topic. ⁠ 1. Sign up for the sprint and receive a free guide to get started: https://bit.ly/skillssprint2024 2. Watch our Sprint on YouTube: https://bit.ly/scss-playlist 3. Read our books ‘The Squiggly Career’ and ‘You Coach You’: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ 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

So today we are on skill number six of the sprint, which is all about strategic thinking.

0:07.4

And we think this is a really important skill for you to focus on in your squiggly career because

0:11.6

it helps you to zoom out. It helps you to look ahead. And there is so much at work that is all about

0:17.5

like the day to day. It's very immediate. I feel like if you didn't focus on strategic thinking,

0:23.6

I feel like most things that happen pull you towards like a lot.

0:27.4

Short term.

0:28.0

Yeah, short term.

0:29.2

How do I get more done today?

0:30.7

How do I get through my emails this week?

0:32.4

Like, and I think you are naturally better at this.

0:34.6

We often talk about Sarah, even with like diaries, you're such a look

0:38.0

ahead person because you have like what we try to achieve and then how does my diary reflect it.

0:43.7

Whereas if I don't focus on this, I'm a very like day by, what does my diary say I need to do today?

0:49.2

And that means that you might kind of miss out on the bigger picture. You might head in the wrong

0:53.5

direction. You can get very busy doing without working out whether it's actually delivering means that you might kind of miss out on the bigger picture, you might head in the wrong direction,

0:59.3

you can get very busy doing without working out whether it's actually delivering what you want from your work. And so the more we can build strategic thinking as a skill, the more we can still

1:04.7

deliver on the day to day, but you make sure that you're kind of moving in the right direction

1:08.7

in terms of your impact and also your development.

1:11.9

So the framework that I'm going to share is called SCR. And this stands for situation,

1:18.1

complication and resolution. So you know if you're trying to think strategically about something,

1:24.2

a project you're working on, maybe a problem you're trying to solve, even just

1:28.3

like the job that you do. I think this is a really simple kind of three-step process just to

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