Squiggly Shortcut: 5 Questions That Will Transform Your Career Conversations

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, well, 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 visualizing. 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, uh, please, please don't worry.

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