CEO of @Amazing_If, co-host of Squiggly Careers podcast, co-author The Squiggly Careers. Positive force for good (work).
Joined January 2012
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11 Jul 2023
Almost 1000 people are already signed up for the Squiggly Careers Skill Sprint!
Come and learn with us next month.
20 skills x 7 minutes of daily listening = a lot of career learning!
Sign-up and get your Ready, Steady, Sprint guide now. lnkd.in/ee4ayPur
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7 Jul 2023
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Sarah and I are looking to interview some CEOs who have had a squiggly route to their role.
Do you know a Squiggly CEO* that would be up for sharing their career story?! If so, please let me know below and we'llโฆlnkd.in/eZDM3349
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6 Jul 2023
Join the Squiggly Careers Skills Sprint!!
In August Sarah and I will be sharing a daily 7 minute episode to help you learn about a squiggly skill. We'll share:
๐ก What it is and why it matters
๐ก An idea for action from both of us
๐ก A go-to-go to learnโฆlnkd.in/eaP2yPgN
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29 Jun 2023
โHelping managers helps everyone succeed in their squiggly careers.โ
Feeling really proud that our latest Harvard Business Review article is the first thing you see today on the HBR website ๐
If youโre a manager, Sarah and I hope you find this a usefulโฆlnkd.in/e7DkjANX
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27 Jun 2023
Sarah Ellis and I wrote about โHow to reimagine retentionโ in Harvard Business Review last June. It inspired a โSquiggle & Stayโ community of 17 organisations actively experimenting with new ways to increase peopleโs awareness of and access to internal opโฆlnkd.in/e5vmNufM
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25 Jun 2023
๐๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐
Brenรฉ Brownโs words about connection resonate strongly with me.
It took me a while to realise that a big career community doesnโt automatically result in a strong sense of connection. In fact, Iโฆlnkd.in/eeAEyU58
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23 Jun 2023
FROM โ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ค?โ TO โ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ชโ
Heading home after a brilliant few days in Cannes full of conversation, inspiration and fun!
You meet a LOT of people across all of the events. Julie Doleman and I were chatting abouโฆlnkd.in/e4wQj7p8
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22 Jun 2023
Brilliant morning of learning at the Equality Lounge run by The Female Quotient in Cannes.
Some quotes and concepts that stuck with me and might be useful for you too:
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19 Jun 2023
๐๐ป ๐ฎ ๐๐พ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ, ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ท๐ผ๐ฏ and the acceleration of AI makes it even more important to proactively invest in your development.
After listening to a talk from Accenture Song last week, I decided to up my AI aโฆlnkd.in/ewXWqWDr
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16 Jun 2023
Help!
Sarah and I will be releasing a 20-episode skills sprint series on the Squiggly Careers podcast in August.
Each day we'll release a 7-minute episode in order to create learning momentum.
I would love to set up a Squiggly Careers community on a haโฆlnkd.in/e6CGT4jb
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15 Jun 2023
I think lots of people donโt know about all of the free career resources that we create at Amazing If.
One of the most recent tools weโve put on amazingif.com is our Values Workbook. You can use it to reflect on your own or to learn together asโฆlnkd.in/eDguTm-y
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14 Jun 2023
My Big Break
About 8 years ago, I was at an event run by The Marketing Academy talking to Mark Evans about a side project called Amazing If that Sarah Ellis and I had started to support people with career skills.
Mark listened and said โwhy donโt you coโฆlnkd.in/e3diJN9y
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14 Jun 2023
๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐บ๐๐น๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐บ๐๐ฐ๐ต?!
Quick video below of some of the ideas from this weekโs Squiggly Career episode on how to stop multitasking:
- Interuption audit
- Win Watch
Links to listen in the Amazing If post.
Join Sarah anโฆlnkd.in/evXZ39Ks
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9 Jun 2023
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I often fall back on Ansoffโs matrix for thinking about how we scale squiggly careers.
If you havenโt used it before, it helps you to plot how you grow through the lens of new and existingโฆlnkd.in/eCZ5tqfH
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8 Jun 2023
Giant thank you to @s_devonshire for connecting Jon Evans and me together. It led to a lovely podcast conversation about the world of squiggly and what we can all do to help ourselves and the people we work with have careers as individual as we are.
I loโฆlnkd.in/ekWEPnrk
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7 Jun 2023
Sarah and I talk about how to stand out with senior people on this weekโs Squiggly Careers podcast.
Quick summary below and lots more ideas in the episode!
Just search for Squiggly wherever you listen to podcasts โค๏ธ๐ lnkd.in/eSyAWai7
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6 Jun 2023
I get very excited when I see the international versions of The Squiggly Career and You Coach You.
I can't believe it's only 3 years since Squiggly was published! Since then Amazing If has grown so much and through our TED Talk, podcast and sessions we'vโฆlnkd.in/eYy_jp4K
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3 Jun 2023
Letโs lose ladder-like language!
I would LOVE it if when people moved into new positions we didnโt call it โstepping upโ or โstepping downโ.
This ladder-like language reinforces perceptions of promotion-only progression when the reality is there are manโฆlnkd.in/eYnKTYqE
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2 Jun 2023
Iโve read a good book this week, whilst trying to keep my children entertained over half-term.
โThe Power of Momentsโ by Chip and Dan Heath is a great read if you are interested in customer or employee experience.
One bit that stood out for me was theโฆlnkd.in/ecMmiej6
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26 May 2023
Celebrating your successes helps to build your belief and the busier you are, the more important it is to press pause and reflect on what youโve done well.
So, to end a full on week at Amazing If, here are 5 things weโve done that Iโm putting in the selfโฆlnkd.in/ey4zZJCh
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