00:00:00: Introduction
00:00:43: All about networking
00:02:04: A networking immediate
00:04:32: AI examples
00:06:23: A instrument to check out
00:09:38: Networking as a workforce
00:10:56: Remaining ideas
Sarah Ellis: Hello, I am Sarah.
Helen Tupper: And I am Helen.
Sarah Ellis: And that is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And that is the fourth episode of our Squiggly Profession Expertise Dash.
Helen Tupper: Previous the midway level now.
Sarah Ellis: Until you begin right now.
Helen Tupper: Oh, yeah. Wherein case you’ve got bought a number of different episodes to atone for.
Sarah Ellis: And it would not actually matter an excessive amount of what order you do them in. It is extra that you’re attempting issues out, that you just’re experimenting. And fast reminder, simply in case you might be beginning with networking, you do want the every day Expertise Dash summaries. Hyperlink within the present notes, electronic mail us helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com, if you happen to’ve not bought them. The explanation they’re so vital, it is the place you may discover the prompts that you would be able to actually minimize and paste, you may discover examples of the instruments and all of the hyperlinks to be taught from, so it would make your life a lot simpler as soon as you’ve got bought them.
Helen Tupper: And right now, we’re speaking in regards to the ability of networking. I do know it’s kind of —
Sarah Ellis: Divisive.
Helen Tupper: Some individuals are like, “I hate this one”. Do not skip, simply do not skip, as a result of it is actually, actually vital on your growth. In reality, Squiggly stat time, 70% of individuals’s roles come via a connection. So, if we’re not creating the connections, we’re not constructing the relationships we’d like, now we have much less entry to roles sooner or later. And that may be a large a part of what makes your profession resilient in a Squiggly Profession, that we have a couple of alternative, we have got a couple of possibility. What we have to do is construct our networks in a manner that feels genuine. So, the way in which we body this in our work is consider this, not as folks understanding folks, so it isn’t the quantity of connections you’ve got bought on LinkedIn, for instance, it isn’t that. It is folks serving to folks.
This works for a few causes. One, you want serving to folks, we like serving to folks, leads to one thing known as the helper’s excessive in our mind. Makes us really feel good, makes us really feel precious. So, it is a greater place to begin from to suppose, “How can I be useful?” After which, the opposite cause that this works is it leads to reciprocity. So, if I assist Sarah, she’s more likely to need to assist and help me sooner or later. And if that is the form of precept that you just use to construct these relationships, it leads to what we time period profession karma. Good things comes again to you over time, and that is what we actually need from these networks.
Sarah Ellis: So, the immediate that we will begin with right now is all about constructing your private board. So, we did a podcast episode, and it is a instrument that we frequently educate in our workshops round ensuring you’ve got bought the proper folks round you to help you in your Squiggly Profession. And likewise, be sure to’ve bought a spread of individuals round you. As a result of in any other case, there’s that danger of if I’ve a lot of folks, a bit like Helen, you get an echo-chamber lure of individuals simply reinforcing the identical issues.
Helen Tupper: I might say folks simply being annoyingly constructive.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, that too, we’ll come on to that in a second. And likewise, I believe, typically discovering distinction can really feel arduous to do, you realize, folks with completely different views, folks with completely different experiences, possibly somebody in the beginning of their profession, possibly you simply do not come throughout that many individuals simply beginning out, possibly you do not work with anybody who’s bought 20 years’ extra expertise than you. So, I believe all of us profit from these completely different views, however typically these folks can really feel fairly arduous to succeed in. And this makes it very simple. And so, what we’re asking an AI to do right here, and I did use ChatGPT and Claude for this one, so I simply did it on the identical time and each of them labored nicely in each; I mentioned, “Act as my private profession board. Tackle completely different personas, together with challenger, questioner, supporter, ideator, connector, and empathiser. My present profession dilemma is how to ensure I am balancing sufficient time studying for myself, with spending time supporting different folks to be taught. What questions or statements would every of those folks ask me and present the info in a desk?”
Helen Tupper: So, I assume earlier than we get into Sarah’s insights and solutions, if you happen to’re copy and pasting that immediate, the bit that you just may need to personalise is the problem. So, Sarah put the training problem in, you place no matter problem is related to you.
Sarah Ellis: And so, you do get a really neat desk, I’d say, which was which was very useful. And it gave the personas, and it additionally categorised the voice and focus. So, for instance, “Challenger: direct, daring, excessive requirements. Supporter: encouraging, affirming, emotionally invested”. So, truly, it form of described the roles a bit for me. And if you happen to learn any of that voice and focus and thought, “Oh, that is not what I need the main target to be”, you could possibly clearly amend it and say, “Have my challenger to have the very best requirements of anybody you could possibly think about, even increased”. You’ll be able to type of push it in numerous instructions. So, I type of appreciated that capability to adapt. After which, it gave me the immediate or the query. And I believe right here, what’s typically useful is, in a short time you’ve got bought the vary, after which you’ll be able to dive deeper into what feels helpful for you.
So, for instance, my challenger requested me, “In the event you’re not studying for your self, how are you going to credibly information others? What are you avoiding?” And I used to be like, “Oh!”
Helen Tupper: “What are you avoiding?”!
Sarah Ellis: I do know, fairly confrontational. However for me, actually useful as somebody who is not naturally very confronting in my model. Truly, having that immediate to myself round credibility, that actually hit residence. And I used to be like, “Nicely, it actually issues to me to be credible”. So, that actually labored. The supporter one, “You give a lot to others, what would it not appear to be to offer that very same caring power to your self?” I used to be like, “Do not care”.
Helen Tupper: Assist dismissed!
Sarah Ellis: Assist dismissed.
Helen Tupper: “You’ll be able to depart my board!”
Sarah Ellis: However I believe I simply discovered that much less motivating, simply much less helpful.
Helen Tupper: However to some folks, that may be the function that they relate to.
Sarah Ellis: Oh, in fact, for good folks, I think about, a lot nicer folks than me. I believe, what I’ve typically discovered after I’ve examined this instrument stay with heaps of people that be taught with us in workshops, is you are typically lacking — possibly you’ve got bought three or 4 of those in actual life, however possibly there’s one or two that you could possibly actually do with their perspective however you have not bought them but. Once more, we’re not saying alternative for actual folks. The benefit, I assume, of that is it is speedy and it fills the gaps you’ve got bought for now. I nonetheless desire a challenger, however these questions have been actually good.
Helen Tupper: Nicely, what I did was I copied and pasted the immediate that Sarah had mentioned, however I personalised it with my problem. After which, I mentioned, “I need to have a one-to-one with my questioner”. And that for me was this further stage of usefulness, as a result of it was then like I used to be having a direct dialog. Since you get an inventory of questions with what Sarah confirmed, that are actually helpful. However the one-to-one I felt was only a actually useful dialogue, like actually, actually useful. After which, I felt I believe I’d have been far more assured having that dialog with an precise questioner, type of thought via prematurely. And so, we have got one further instrument so that you can check out right now.
Sarah Ellis: Controversial!
Helen Tupper: Yeah, we’re a bit divisive. Sarah would not prefer it, I discovered it fairly helpful. So, the instrument is named Crystal Is aware of. And also you simply go to the web site, you’ll obtain it, it will put a bit of factor in your toolbar. And it has surveys for you, that are type of fascinating. However the factor that’s helpful within the context of your neighborhood is you’ll be able to connect it to your LinkedIn. After which, if you look atomeone’s profile, it would use AI to mainly inform you easy methods to talk with that particular person, what their possible disk profile is, which is sort of a character instrument that you should use to profile folks, easy methods to electronic mail that particular person. It offers you a great deal of element on easy methods to interact with them.
So, I did this with Sarah. I believed, “Who can I check this with?” You get 5 free goes. I needed extra. As soon as I would bought in, I used to be like, “I need to do that on extra folks”. And so, I did it with Sarah. She got here out as an initiator, visionary, charismatic and dynamic, simply based mostly on her LinkedIn profile. And it gave me do’s and don’ts. So, “Give attention to high-level summaries”. After I was studying this, you have been the one which I used to be like, “Oh, I do not know”, since you’re so only a little bit of all the things. AI finds it arduous to analyse you.
Sarah Ellis: Nicely, I assume that is additionally, it’s a bit based mostly in your LinkedIn profile. Nicely, it is lots based mostly on that. So, I do not do very a lot posting on LinkedIn.
Helen Tupper: I imply, there was heaps in there. I imply, I do suppose the visionary, charismatic, dynamic, I imply dynamic’s most likely debatable.
Sarah Ellis: However to the purpose of I do not publish that a lot, so it is making a few of it up, proper? They have not bought that a lot information to work with.
Helen Tupper: I did it on Adam Grant, as a result of I believe we would wish to get Adam Grant on the podcast. I used to be like, can it give me a number of recommendations on easy methods to interact Adam Grant? So, “Do be expressive, enthusiastic. Get the very best response from Adam utilizing this instance, ‘How would you’re feeling about…'” I used to be like, possibly attempt a few of these, and I did it on my husband. I believed, “Let’s have a look at how true this actually is”. And truly, I imply it was fairly correct. I am not going to learn them, nevertheless it’s helpful. You get 5 goes and I believe if I used to be going for an interview or I used to be working with a brand new stakeholder on a undertaking, I imply it isn’t that useful for me to do it with you, to be trustworthy. I do know you very well. But when there was somebody I used to be working with for the primary time that I needed a little bit of perception into to tell how I talk with them, Crystal Is aware of is an efficient instrument.
Sarah Ellis: I believe my reservations have been, I used to be like, I simply don’t desire folks to lose important pondering.
Helen Tupper: That is true.
Sarah Ellis: And truly, if you and I checked out a few of the issues for me, a few of it, we have been like, “Nicely, that is not proper, that is not proper, that is not proper”. So, you could have, I believe, bought to be a bit simply, like, all the time apply your individual important ideas to issues. And likewise, relationship-building looks like one thing you continue to need folks to have the ability to be taught. And I used to be like, “I do not need folks to make use of this instead”.
Helen Tupper: Do not outsource it, yeah.
Sarah Ellis: It is like something, proper? Do not outsource your studying and growth to an AI or to different folks, and do not outsource your capability to construct relationships. And I do suppose, I suppose as a result of I see for the time being, you realize you’ll be able to inform typically when issues are written by AI? I’d hate folks to begin sending emails to construct relationships with folks the place you are like, “Oh, that is clearly an AI”. We get them for folks typically wanting to return on the podcast, and I am like, “That is not an individual that is written that”. So, it is just a few watch-outs, do not be a stalker.
Helen Tupper: So, we’ll watch-out and caveat, “Do not be a stalker”, all of the issues that Sarah would say as an introverted networker. However if you happen to’re pondering, I believe simply give it a go. Simply attempt it out, see what it tells, see how helpful it’s for you.
Sarah Ellis: And so, as a workforce, how are you going to speak about this collectively, aside from possibly doing one another’s LinkedIn profiles? I imply, it undoubtedly makes you concentrate on your LinkedIn profile. That is what it made me take into consideration. So, as a workforce, one of many issues you could possibly do is speak about one factor you need to be taught. So, you may say, “One factor I need to be taught is easy methods to use AI as a part of my day-after-day, or, “One factor I need to be taught is what’s techniques pondering? I hear folks speak about it, however I simply do not know what it’s”. “One factor I need to be taught is extra about being an excellent chief or extra about prioritising or time administration”. There’s some frequent ones that come up. After which you’ll be able to have a dialogue about, nicely, then who might help you? And likewise then, who might you assist? I believe truly if you begin to put your neighborhood round your studying, or round your profession, based mostly in your growth, it is a lot simpler as a filter. And truly, after I do that typically with teams, they’re going to say, “Oh, I need to study…” all of these issues I simply mentioned, after which I will be useful. Straightaway, I will be like, “Oh, nicely, if you happen to’re fascinated by time, I really like Oliver Burtman’s work.
However then another person will chime in and say, “Oh, have you ever seen that Pomodoro factor that is free? And this is the app, and this is the hyperlink”. So, all people begins serving to all people, and you realize your level about reciprocity after we began. I simply see that taking place and I believe that is simpler if you happen to’ve bought a type of purpose, a studying purpose. And it would not must all the time be studying, however that is only a good place to begin.
Helen Tupper: I believe that form of stuff simply reframes how networking feels. However that’s the finish, that’s the finish of right now’s day 4 of the Squiggly Careers Ability Dash, which implies that tomorrow is our ultimate day, and we will be speaking about how you should use AI to assist together with your future potentialities.
