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Squiggly Careers

#420 Skills Sprint: Adaptability

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

We're half-way through the Sprint! In episode 10 of 20 in the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint, Helen and Sarah talk about adaptability and how to match your skills and strengths to a situation while staying true to who you are. 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

Today's skill is all about adaptability and this is where you are matching your skills and your

0:09.4

strengths to a situation. So you're taking the things that you've got, the abilities you've got,

0:14.4

but you're really thinking about what does this opportunity or this moment need most right now

0:19.4

and that ability to kind of flex to use them in

0:22.1

different ways is what we're talking about today as we're reflecting on adaptability this is never

0:27.3

about being someone that you're not i think it's always about starting with yourself and sort of

0:33.4

stretching yourself in different directions it's sort of sensing it's being able to read the room, but fundamentally you are still

0:41.1

you.

0:41.6

Yeah.

0:42.0

And we all have adaptability.

0:43.5

I think often people are more adaptable than they give themselves credit for, but there's

0:47.5

definitely a watch out here to not adapt so much that you no longer feel like you're

0:53.1

you anymore.

0:53.7

So for today's skill sprint,

0:55.8

we've taken inspiration from Natalie Frato. So Natalie did a brilliant talk all about the idea of

1:02.6

adaptability quotient, your AQ. And she talks about three things that contribute to adaptability.

1:09.2

And they are what if questions unlearning the ability

1:13.8

to override what you already know with new information and explorers versus exploiters. So we thought

1:21.6

we'd take a couple of those ideas and then bring those to life for our listeners. So I'm going to

1:25.7

talk about unlearning because it always sticks to me.

1:28.3

Sarah goes, you always go on about the backwards bike experiment.

1:30.8

You do always go on about it.

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