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Squiggly Careers

#424 Skills Sprint: Learning Agility

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 14 of 20 in the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint. Today, Helen and Sarah talk about learning agility and explore the 3 key elements (navigating newness, understanding others & self-awareness) to help you succeed in new situations. 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

skill 14 is learning agility and this is one that I think we've spent quite a lot

0:06.3

time on because we have done a full podcast episode on it we came up with a whole assessment

0:11.2

that we'll tell you about in a few minutes so it's something we really care about and it's

0:14.3

something we've got lots to help you with but why and what is learning agility so this is about

0:18.9

your ability to do things that you have not done before.

0:22.7

So learning agility enables us to sort of succeed in situations that are new. And if you kind

0:28.6

of deconstruct learning agility into kind of what are the things that make it up,

0:32.3

there are three things that contribute towards it. So this is about navigating newness. It is about understanding

0:38.8

others and it is also about self-awareness. And so we're really going to focus initially on

0:44.8

navigating newness because we've talked about understanding others in our empathy skill.

0:49.3

And I think often we don't get much practice being a beginner. So that is my idea for action, is practice

0:56.8

starting from scratch. And I really mean starting from scratch. Because when was the last time

1:02.8

you did something that you've not done before? So this was a really good question that Kath Bishop

1:08.0

actually asked me the other week. So Katz's been on the podcast.

1:14.4

She's the author of a great book called Long Win. And that's sort of one of her sort of killer questions in the book. And she asked me that question. I asked her that question.

1:18.0

What's your answer? Well, luckily, she asked me on a week where we had just done a training

1:22.6

session on AI. And it was a three hour training session. So when was the last time you've done, you've done something you're not done before? I was like, oh, I've literally just spent three hours doing

1:30.4

loads of things that I'd not done before, trying out new AI tools that I'd never even heard of,

1:35.7

that I'd never experimented with. And actually, that didn't feel too uncomfortable. And I was reflecting

1:41.0

on why. And I think that's because we were being a beginner together.

1:45.7

So we were doing the AI training as a group.

1:49.0

So I was reading earlier about the reality of being a beginner is you feel apparently

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