We're really excited that we are back again with another Squiggly Careers Skill Sprint. Over 25,000 people have learnt with us on our sprint and we'd love you to come and learn with us in January. We are going to be learning like lobsters. And the reason this matters is because learning has never been more important at work, but it's also never felt harder to do. And we think that lobsters are the role models that we've all been missing.

So sign up for the Sprint at squiggly sprint.com and you'll join a community of people who all get to

learn like a lobster and overcome those barriers that are getting in the way of their growth.

Hi, my name's Sarah and this is a squiggly career shortcut. And in today's shortcut, I'm going to be

talking about five questions to help you have useful career conversations. And you can use

these questions in a few different ways. You could use them to prepare for a career conversation

you've got coming up, so to do some thinking beforehand. Maybe you're a manager who's

having career conversations with their team. You could send these questions out beforehand,

get people to pick one or two that feel most relevant for where they are right now. Or you could

just use these as coach yourself questions. You could just ask yourself these questions.

But I'm recording this in January and I think it is a good

moment for us to pause, to think about the big picture and to zoom out a bit with our career just to

make sure that we are kind of looking ahead so that then we can also think about what does that

mean for me today in the role that I'm doing and the job that I'm in? So question one,

what do you want to be true in 12 months time that isn't true today? I love this question.

It gets you to practice fast forwarding, doing a bit of mental time travel and visualising.

Because you're asking yourself things you want to be true that aren't true today, this typically

tends to be about doing something for the first time. So something new and being a beginner,

or making a change. If you find any of these questions a bit daunting or intimidating to get

started with, please don't worry. That has lots of people's initial reaction. Maybe put the question down

on a bit of paper. Do, set yourself a timer for three minutes and do a three minute mind map for one

or a couple of these questions just to, just to warm up your thinking. Remember, most of us don't do

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