#473 Why Understanding Your Manager Matters For Career Growth
Squiggly Careers
The Squiggly Career
5 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Figuring out what makes your manager tick can be one of the most powerful tools for career growth. In this episode, Helen and Sarah discuss the significant impact that managers have on your development, job satisfaction, and progression within a company. They also share practical tips on how to profile your manager, allowing you to align your actions with their needs, improve your communication, and position yourself for success—all by gaining a deeper understanding of their mindset.
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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 take a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions to help all of us navigate our squiggly careers without a bit more confidence, clarity and control. And as well as the episode that you're going to hear us talk about today, we've got |
| 0:20.9 | lots of extra support for you in your squiggly career. And we've pulled it all into a brand new |
| 0:25.6 | newsletter called Squiggly Careers in Action. So you'll get the pod sheet that goes this episode, |
| 0:31.1 | that's got the tools we'll talk through and some coaching questions. We've also added some |
| 0:34.9 | extra things in. So you've got Sarah's Borough Brilliance. This is |
| 0:37.9 | Sarah sharing some insights and ideas. She's got from different things that she's reading, |
| 0:42.1 | watching and listening to. You've got Helen's how to, which is a video of me experimenting with |
| 0:47.0 | a tool that we think could be useful for you in your career. Sometimes it will be. Sometimes it |
| 0:50.6 | won't be. We'll see how it goes. And then we've also got squiggly careers behind the scenes, which is an ad hoc feature based on whether we think there's something that you |
| 0:58.8 | might be interested in. But if you're a squiggly career supporter, we thought you might like to know |
| 1:02.6 | a bit more of what we're up to. So today we're talking about why understanding your manager will |
| 1:07.5 | help you to do better in your job. And in some ways, I think as Helen and I were |
| 1:11.6 | exploring some ideas for today's episode, we were like, it starts to feel a bit borderline, |
| 1:17.2 | manipulative and McAvellian, but we promise it's not. It's really just about sort of walking in |
| 1:23.0 | your manager's shoes and then kind of figuring out like what does that mean for you being smarter |
| 1:28.5 | and hopefully to make your life that little bit easier. |
| 1:31.3 | I feel like an alternative title could have been how to take control of your manager so they |
| 1:34.8 | don't take control of you. |
| 1:37.2 | That probably would have been more clickable. |
| 1:39.5 | That's probably what we should be doing. |
| 1:41.0 | But we know managers matter. |
| 1:43.1 | So I think you always really remember |
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