The 4 Attachment Styles and How They Show Up at Work

So today we are going to borrow brilliance from the concept of attachment styles. And I was reading Harvard Business Review and there was an article in it, How to Manage an Insecure Leader. Three steps for dealing with anxious or avoidant executives. And this whole article is about when you spot those styles in the people that you work with, particularly your leader, what should you do about it? There's an interesting data point in the article which we'll put in the pod sheet which says, Recent research suggests that about 36% of adults have an insecure attachment style.

But if you do want to get maybe a bit closer to what your style might be, the prompt that we use asked me five questions to identify my attachment style at work. What did it tell you, Sarah? Was it a surprise or was it similar to what you thought you might be? I've got a mostly secure attachment style at work with a slight independent avoidant tendency.

I think it's important that you don't underestimate almost like the value of some of the behaviours that you have. Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, where every week we borrow some brilliance and try to turn those ideas and that curiosity into useful action for you and your squiggly career. And so today we are going to borrow brilliance from the concept of attachment styles, which I have known about for a while.

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