#459 How to increase your awarenesss

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Awareness is a key skill to support your squiggly career but one that can feel hard to improve. This week, Helen and Sarah talk through 3 different types of awareness; self-awareness, situational awareness and relational awareness. They share ideas to assess your awareness and special actions you can take to improve in any area where you might have a gap.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is a squiggly careers podcast where every week we talk
0:08.8	about a different topic to do with work and we share some ideas and actions to help us all
0:13.1	navigate our squiggly careers without a bit more confidence and control. And if this is the
0:18.4	first time you're listening to the podcast, or maybe you're a regular
0:21.2	listener, and don't forget that all of our episodes are turned into one-page summaries, the Squiggly
0:26.1	Careers Podsheet, to help you take action. So you'll find lots of the things that we're going
0:30.4	to talk about today, the ideas for actions, and coach yourself questions to reflect on some
0:34.6	resources if you want to go and learn a little bit more afterwards, all put in one place and you can get that from our website, amazingif.com.
0:41.0	Just head to the podcast page.
0:42.7	So this week we're talking about how to turn awareness into action that will accelerate your career.
0:48.5	And I think it's fair to say that awareness is a skill that never makes it to the top of anybody's
0:53.8	learning list.
0:55.5	When I ask people in a workshop, oh, you know, what do you want to learn more about or what
0:59.0	do you want to learn this year?
1:00.8	No one ever says awareness.
1:01.7	Basically all everyone ever says at the moment is AI.
1:05.8	Like AI wins.
1:07.6	And awareness is interesting because I think the default is when you think awareness, you're like,
1:11.4	oh, have they missed a word there?
1:12.8	Do they mean self-awareness?
1:14.8	But actually, awareness covers more than one thing.
1:17.9	It kind of goes beyond self-awareness into two other areas, situational awareness and relational
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