#575 Oracy: How to improve your speaking and listening skills

Aim needs the right process, critical needs the right response. Wicked needs the right mindset. What we're gonna do is talk about the three types of problems from Keith Gwyn's work, where I talk about what they are, how you can spot them, like what they might sound like if you've got one of these problems, and probably most importantly, what you do to solve them. You know, when you're trying to think like, well, why why would I spend time like figuring out what type of problem this is? It's like, well, almost if you haven't figured out the type of problem, you might try and solve it in the wrong way. And you sort of waste time and energy. What is good about all of these different types of problems? I know that this is a really learnable skill because I learned the critical problem solving skill.

Problem solving, for example, is a no-regret skill. It doesn't really matter what is going to happen in the world. Invest in that skill, you're gonna have no regrets. Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers Podcast, a weekly podcast where we borrow some brilliance from something we've been reading. Watch, listening to events we've been at, people we've been talking to, just Wherever we take a bit of inspiration from. But the important thing is that we connect that to your career so that you've got some new ideas and actions to you can try out.

And so regular listeners might guess quite quickly that I have chosen today's topic. Next week's is the one that I've chosen. Well, it'd be a very niche guessing game. But who do you think chose the topic? So today we're borrowing brilliance from a word. Lovely. No I do I do like it. I really struggle to say this word. I keep feeling like I get it wrong.

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