#438 How to overcome career complacency

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Career complacency happens when you're not intentional about improving your skills or exploring your future possibilities. Even when you're happy in your role, it's important to actively manage your development. Without it, we risk losing relevance and being less resilient to change.

This week, Helen and Sarah share 5 ideas to action to overcome career complacency. They discuss how resistance goals can counteract a passive approach to your progression and the benefit of spending time with ambition allies. You can find the PodSheet, PodNote and full transcript for the episode at https://www.amazingif.com/listen/

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and this is the Swigley Careers podcast, a weekly show where we talk about the ins, outs, ups and downs of work and share some ideas for action to give you a little bit more control over your development and also maybe just a little bit of confidence that you're not going through all of this on your own.
0:20.5	Every week on the podcast, our episodes are supported with lots of other resources to help you learn.
0:25.6	So whether you download our pod sheet, you swipe through our pod note, or you join the conversation on Podplus.
0:31.4	There's lots of extra stuff to help you.
0:33.2	All of that is on our website at amazingif.com.
0:36.4	And this week we're talking about how to overcome career complacency, which might sound like quite a tough topic.
0:43.9	I feel like we're going to be quite tough with people today.
0:46.0	I think Sarah's giving me some feedback.
0:47.5	She's like, I think we should do this episode, Helen.
0:49.9	I did say that, actually.
0:51.5	I did say that.
0:52.7	Yeah, like, have we got to that point in our relationship
0:55.0	where we start to skip, like, underhand feedback?
0:59.1	Thanks for that.
0:59.7	And actually, I found a really good quote from LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman,
1:03.6	where he sort of says almost his maxim for life is,
1:07.3	it helps to consider yourself in a constant state of beta.
1:11.8	And really, I think this is the idea of always being work in progress, never letting ourselves get sort of too comfortable or coasting for too long.
1:22.3	And Helen and I, we're chatting before.
1:23.6	We're like, we know there are certain moments where, of course, it is okay to give yourself a bit of a break.
1:29.9	And I don't think the opposite of career complacency is being 100% always on, full on all of the time.
1:39.2	But I think if you don't watch out for this, or if today as you you're listening you think, do you know what,
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