Professional Development Workshops with the hosts of the Squiggly Career Podcast

Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, hosts of The Squiggly Career, are coming to campus on Friday, February 27 to lead two workshops on professional development for graduate students. RSVP for one or both workshops!

Additionally, we have a unique opportunity for a small group to have lunch with Helen and Sarah from noon – 1pm for more personalized feedback and coaching (Sign up for the lunch)!

In these sessions, Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis will share practical tools for learning, growth, and navigating non-linear (“squiggly”) careers. Sessions include Learn like a lobster, focused on continuous, self-directed learning through challenge and change, and How to Succeed in your squiggly career, which explores key skills such as values, strengths, confidence, community, and career possibilities.

All attendees will receive a free copy of their new book, Learn Like a Lobster.

Attendees may RSVP for one or both workshops, with an additional opportunity for a small-group lunch and personalized coaching.

Helen and Sarah are the authors of the upcoming book Learn Like a Lobster, two Sunday Times bestsellers (The Squiggly Career and You Coach You), and hosts of the popular Squiggly Careers podcast. Their TEDx talk “The best career path isn’t always a straight line” has been watched by 2 million people and together they have worked with hundreds of organizations to develop the skills to succeed in today’s increasingly squiggly careers

Watch their TEDx talk below:

Session 1: Learn like a lobster

We used to go to work to learn to do the job, and now learning is the job.
In our ever-changing careers, we need a new way to learn that feels achievable for everybody, reflects our busy working reality, and feels motivating and useful to do. Enter the lobster….

Lobsters have three fascinating features that make them a brilliant role model for learning and growth:

1. Lobsters never stop growing.
   In this session, we’ll teach you how to use experiments, questions, and data so that you can learn as you go.
2. Lobsters grow the most in their hard moments, when they shed their shell and experience vulnerability.
   We all have shell-shedding moments, and we’ll help you turn these moments of feedback, failure, and challenge into opportunities for new learning.
3. Lobsters fuel their own growth by eating the shell they shed.
   We’ll share simple ways to lead your own learning and be resourceful with your development, so you can create learning rather than wait for it to come to you.

Because when you learn, you grow.

Session 2: How to succeed in your squiggly career.

Career ladders have been the default for development for far too long. But careers aren’t linear, and the world we’re working in is not as predictable as the ladder implies. Squiggly careers give people a new way to think about their development—one that reflects the reality of the world we work in and the individuality of the work we want to do.

There are five skills that help people succeed in their squiggly career. In this session, best-selling authors Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis will share how:

• Knowing your values—the things that motivate and drive you
• Working with your strengths—the things that give you energy and that you want to be known for
• Caging your confidence gremlins—the beliefs that hold you back
• Developing a community—the people you can learn from and grow with
• Exploring your possibilities—the ideas and options that expand your future choices

…can help you take ownership of your development and succeed in your career.