Squiggly Shortcut: 3 Ways To Stand Out To Senior Stakeholders

Squiggly Careers

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Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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✨ Welcome to Squiggly Shortcuts— a series from the Squiggly Careers podcast, bringing you quick career tips in just 5 minutes, every Thursday. In this shortcut, Helen shares three practical ways to stand out with senior stakeholders — the people who can influence your impact, support your development, and open up new opportunities. Whether it’s your manager or another leader in your organisation, these ideas will help you build better relationships and be remembered for the right reasons. Episode 507 🦞 Pre-order Learn Like A Lobster: PRH US – https://bit.ly/3KxTeBn Amazon UK – https://amzn.to/3KcRZaR ⏱️ Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to Squiggly Shortcuts 00:28 Why senior stakeholders matter 01:05 Idea 1 – Position yourself as a peer 02:10 Idea 2 – Go further with your follow-up 03:55 Idea 3 – Build connections they care about 05:10 Where to learn more 🎯 What You’ll Learn - How to build confidence and connection with senior stakeholders - Why going beyond “thank you” helps you stand out - How to add value by linking people and priorities 🎧 Listen to Episode 334 to learn more: https://youtu.be/N_J9EySKxgg?si=6NRrcjFlDINWtVdp 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 the Skills x AI Sprint: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNQl9gsac8BXnWe2qoGuHkLKwsygjP_Ma&si=l7kODG3JpopH0Irz 📮 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, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just
0:05.0	want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new book,
0:09.8	Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and growing
0:16.2	at work, but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.
0:22.9	The book takes three inspiring and surprising abilities of lobsters in terms of how they grow
0:29.0	and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some
0:34.0	practical insights to support your learning, growth and development. This is the book for you.
0:38.9	And if you pre-order now and send your pre-order to hello at learn like a lobster.com,
0:43.8	you can join the lobster library where we have a community of lobster learners ready for you to learn with,
0:50.1	some live sessions, and this will all happen before the book arrives.
0:55.4	So pre-order the book now,
1:00.7	send it to hello at learn like a lobster.com and get started with your learning straight away.
1:06.6	Now let's get on to today's episode. Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you're listening to one of our Squiggly shortcuts. These are shorter episodes that we release every Thursday
1:12.1	and they're focused on a very specific situation which we think can help you in your Squiggly
1:17.0	careers. And today I want to talk about how to stand out with senior stakeholders. This could be
1:23.0	your manager. It might be somebody else in the business who has influence over your impact. And there are some
1:29.8	simple ways in which we can stand out more with these people that are going to have quite a
1:34.5	significant impact on our career. So the first thing I guess to talk about is why, why bother?
1:40.4	Why do we need to put our effort into standing out with these people? Well, like it or not,
1:45.2	people that tend to be more senior can offer us support. So they might have access to projects
1:51.5	that we want to go on or they might have influence over roles that we want to go into.
1:55.9	As well as the support, so the experience we could get through them, they can also give us
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