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Squiggly Careers

Skills Sprint: How to Lead Your Own Learning by Sharing It

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this fifth and final episode of the Learn Like a Lobster skill sprint, Helen and Sarah introduce "Helpful How-Tos" - a simple, fun way to share knowledge that helps you learn faster and helps your team too. You'll discover why sharing makes learning stick, how to overcome confidence gremlins, and a practical (and fun) format you can use immediately with your team to keep learning and growing. 🦞 Join our Learn Like a Lobster Sprint: https://bit.ly/4oZzJ3F 🦞 Pre-order Learn Like A Lobster: 🇺🇸PRH US - https://bit.ly/3KxTeBn 🇬🇧 Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3KcRZaR ⏱️ Timestamps (00:00) Thank you & Well done! 00:25 How lobsters guarantee their growth (01:00) The double win of sharing learning (01:40) Why organisations don’t sharing learning well (02:20) Rubber duck debugging explained (03:30) Overcoming the "expert" barrier (04:02) Introducing helpful how-tos (06:51) Helpful how-to: going to events (extrovert version) (08:06) Helpful how-to: going to events (introvert version) (09:19) Inspiration & 24hr action 🎯 What You’ll Learn Why "rubber duck debugging" works Ways to make knowledge sharing fun and low-pressure in teams How introverts and extroverts can share differently Learn Like a Lobster Profiler – https://www.learnlikealobsterprofiler.com/ For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 🦞 Join our Learn Like a Lobster Sprint: https://bit.ly/4oZzJ3F 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ 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

Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the final day of our squiggly skills sprint. And before we

0:06.1

dive into our topic for today, which is leading your own learning, we just wanted to say a massive

0:10.9

thank you for being involved in the sprint. We have had thousands and thousands of people who have

0:15.9

got involved in learning like lobsters and we are really, really grateful and also just want to

0:20.6

recognise that it's a big commitment that you have made to your development too. So thank you

0:24.2

for joining us and well done for making the commitment. And as a reminder, just in case you missed

0:29.1

day four, you've still got that one to catch up on. Final fascinating fact about lobsters,

0:33.6

they eat the old shells that they get rid of as part of being an incredible self-sustaining growth system.

0:41.2

They're actually packed full of calcium, so really good for helping them to grow

0:44.9

and means they're not reliant on, I don't know, some passing crab or fish that they want to eat,

0:50.4

whatever it is, lobsters love to eat.

0:52.1

But actually they can almost sort of guarantee their growth. And that's what we're really trying to help you to do to be able to be lobster like with your learning. So yesterday, when we talked about lead your own learning, we talked about adapting. And today we want to talk about sharing, because sharing is such an effective way in which you can lead your own learning. And I think it's got a bit of a double win,

1:11.2

really for learning, because not only when you share does your learning last longer, because you

1:16.5

have to reflect on what you know, you have to articulate it in a way that it makes it clear to other

1:21.6

people, you spot what gaps that you've got. It's a really effective process for going through

1:26.9

what you know. But also,

1:28.5

you're sharing that with someone else. So it helps them too. And I think when we have more teams

1:32.4

that are sharing learning together, that learning is much more likely to become part of our culture

1:37.8

as a team and as a company as well. And there's some interesting research and expert insights

1:42.6

around sharing learning. Firstly, most organisations don't do it very well. So people keep a lot of what they're learning to themselves. And my hypothesis on this is you could argue, well, that's because it's people are like, I don't want to share. It's my competitive advantage. But actually, when I talk to people about this, I think it is more,

2:01.3

there's just not the opportunity. There's not the when. Well, when, when would I share what I know

2:05.7

and kind of what I'm learning? I think that's really interesting for teams in particular to think

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