Squiggly Shortcut: Give to Gain - The Career Strategy Nobody Talks About

Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast and you're listening or perhaps watching another one of our Squiggly shortcuts. These are weekly episodes designed to be deliberately short to make it easier for you to fit them into your week. We always focus on a very specific topic and give you some easy actions to get started with. And today I want to borrow a bit of brilliance actually from International Women's Day, where this year the theme is give to gain. And this really aligns with what Sarah and I talk about in building your squiggly career community, which is that really we want to use this idea of people helping people as a way to make sure that we're building strong relationships.

So it aligns with this idea of give to gain. I want to talk about why it aligns and why it matters and then how how you can do it. So let's talk about the why for a moment. Why does give to gain matter for your squiggly career? Two two reasons, relationships and reciprocity.

So the first is Building relationships. It is easier for our brains to engage with helping people than it is for our brains to think, what can I get from them? So when you are building a new relationship with somebody or you're trying to build a better relationship with somebody, if your starting point is, what have I got to give? How can I be helpful?

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