End of Year Review: What Our Highs & Lows Taught Us In 2025

Today is a bit of a special episode. I think this is one that we've done for the past few years. It's where Sarah and I do a bit of a year in review with you. Our focus for this year review is going to be on high, low learning. So we've got several different questions for yourself on your year or ideally you do this with someone else.

You do it in a team, you do it with a bit of a learning buddy. I think it kind of just creates a nicer learning environment if you can use these questions with other people. So for every question that we've come up with, we're kind of going to contrast something that's gone well that we might want to do again or kind of do more of because we don't want to forget those. So it is important to think about like what's been the good stuff and then also a low because I think they are funnier. I do think it is really helpful to reflect on things you have tried out this year, what you have learnt, because the experiments that have gone well, you obviously want to do more of that.

You kind of want to keep that momentum going. So my high outside of work has been Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where every week we borrow some brilliance and relate it to you in your role and in your career to give you some ideas, some insights, some things that you can take action with to invest in your development. And today is a bit of a special episode.

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