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.

𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴!. 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'll…

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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:. 💡 What it is and why it matters.💡 An idea for action from both of us.💡 A go-to-go to learn…

“Helping managers helps everyone succeed in their squiggly careers.”. Feeling really proud that our latest Harvard Business Review article is the first thing you see today on the HBR website 💛. If you’re a manager, Sarah and I hope you find this a useful…

Sarah Ellis and I wrote about ‘How to reimagine retention’ in Harvard Business Review last June. It inspired a ‘Squiggle & Stay’ community of 17 organisations actively experimenting with new ways to increase people’s awareness of and access to internal op…

𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀. Brené Brown’s words about connection resonate strongly with me. It took me a while to realise that a big career community doesn’t automatically result in a strong sense of connection. In fact, I…

FROM “𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤?” TO “𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪”. 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 abou…

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:. 𝗢𝗻 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶…

𝗜𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿, 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗯 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 a…

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 ha…

I think lots of people don’t know about all of the free career resources that we create at Amazing If. One of the most recent tools we’ve put on is our Values Workbook. You can use it to reflect on your own or to learn together as…

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 “why don’t you co…

𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗺𝘂𝗰𝗵?!. Quick video below of some of the ideas from this week’s Squiggly Career episode on how to stop multitasking:. - Interuption audit.- Win Watch. Links to listen in the Amazing If post. Join Sarah an…

𝗚𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘅 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀…. I often fall back on Ansoff’s matrix for thinking about how we scale squiggly careers. If you haven’t used it before, it helps you to plot how you grow through the lens of new and existing…

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 lo…

Sarah and I talk about how to stand out with senior people on this week’s Squiggly Careers podcast. Quick summary below and lots more ideas in the episode!. Just search for Squiggly wherever you listen to podcasts ❤️🌀

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'v…

Let’s lose ladder-like language!. I would LOVE it if when people moved into new positions we didn’t call it ‘stepping up’ or ‘stepping down’. This ladder-like language reinforces perceptions of promotion-only progression when the reality is there are man…

I’ve read a good book this week, whilst trying to keep my children entertained over half-term. ‘The Power of Moments’ 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 the…

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 you’ve done well. So, to end a full on week at Amazing If, here are 5 things we’ve done that I’m putting in the self…