#574 How to Adapt Your Skills for Career Growth

Hi, I'm Helen from the Squiggly Careers Podcast, and you are listening to another one of our Squiggly shortcuts. These weekly episodes are designed to be really easy to fit into your week because we make them super short. And today I want to talk to you about What got you here won't get you there. Now, this is a brilliant book that you've probably already heard about, but I wanted to take that statement, which I've always found really, really sticky. and think about what has that meant for my career, what are some of the things that I have learnt. That might help you with your career too. So what got you here won't get you there. I've got three things that definitely got me somewhere in my career, but then I had to do something quite different to help me get to the next stage of my squiggly career. So let's talk about number one. The first thing is. Giving answers versus asking questions.

So early on in my career, I definitely thought that being the person that had all the answers. was what gave me lots of credibility. And to be honest, it did really help. It made me a bit of a go to person. I had a wide breadth of knowledge. And so lots of people would come to me when they needed And the answer to something. But then as my jobs became a bit more senior, some of the work that I was doing became a bit more complex, I realized that I just didn't have. all of the answers. And that was going to create quite a lot of stress for me if that was the expectation I was creating for myself.

And so I made a really big shift that instead of being the person that had all of the answers, I would be the person that asked the really good questions. And so I would go into the meetings where maybe I didn't know all the details. I definitely didn't have all the knowledge that maybe some other people had. And instead of worrying about that or feeling less confident, what I did instead was I asked some really good questions. I would ask clarity creating questions like What are we trying to get out of the meeting today? What has worked well before? who has done this that we could learn from. And I would always try to ask two or three questions in every meeting.

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