#433 How to create your post-summer reset

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Sarah share their top tips to reset your approach to career development after a summer break.

Time-off gives you the space to slow down. Ideally, we come back to work energised and ready to grow. However, returning to daily pressures and demands can result in development being depriotised and the opportunity for learning getting missed. To overcome this challenge, Helen and Sarah share 4 ideas for action to make career development easy and unmissable. From setting growth goals to designing your own skill sprint, they talk through simple solutions that can make a big difference to your career.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we talk about a
0:08.6	different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions that we hope will help all of
0:13.6	us to navigate these squiggly careers with that bit more confidence and control.
0:17.9	And today's episode is on the theme of a post-summer reset. And this is something that we've
0:23.1	written about in our latest Harvard Business Review article. I wanted to dive a little bit into
0:28.2	why we think this is a really good time for a reset and then how we go about it. So we're going to
0:34.1	bring that article to life for you today with some of the Sarah's and my
0:37.6	thoughts and I guess some of our stories of what this looks like for us right now. And then we'll
0:42.0	put the link to the article in the show notes in case you want to review that or share it with
0:46.8	other people if you think it might be helpful for them. So Sarah, we are two-thirds of the way through
0:51.7	the year. I looked. I looked. there are 105 days left of 2024.
0:57.4	And I always think that September kind of has those, you know, they're like the back-to-school,
1:01.4	back-to-work vibes. I was thinking, you know at the start of the year where it's like,
1:05.0	new year, new me. I think this is more like, you know, like new pencil case, new me, that kind of like, you get yourself
1:10.9	like a new notebook or like, you start September with this idea of kind of being shiny off
1:16.4	the back of August, which is, you know, supposed to be a time of holidays and reflection and newness.
1:22.1	I mean, that isn't how my August generally feels. But how are you feeling about September?
1:28.2	Well, I, so I like the Septemberness of, you know, the kind of momentum of between now and the
1:35.8	end of the year. I feel like it's a short enough window that you can look at it. It's short
1:40.3	enough, but at the same time long enough. I'm like, okay, I've got the time to make
1:45.0	things happen that maybe I haven't made happen so far this year. So I sort of stand a chance of
1:49.8	that. And I kind of generally kind of like this time of year. Like you say, I think you have a different
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