00:00:00: Introduction
00:01:38: Pivot fatigue
00:02:58: Pivots and growth
00:03:55: A five-part course of…
00:04:32: … 1: plot your prospects
00:08:40: … 2: spot your pivot folks
00:12:41: … 3: create some pivot tasks
00:17:34: … 4: apply and ask
00:23:15: … 5: take delight in your pivot
00:27:15: Remaining ideas
Sarah Ellis: Hello, I am Sarah.
Helen Tupper: And I am Helen.
Sarah Ellis: And that is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Each week, we speak about a unique matter to do with work, and share some concepts and a few actions that we hope will assist all of us simply navigate this Squiggly Careers that all of us discover ourselves in with that bit extra confidence and management.
Helen Tupper: And at present, we will be speaking about how one can plan your pivot. And it is a matter that we’ve got talked about earlier than, but it surely was means again in August 2018, the place pre-pandemic, I really feel like pivots had been thought-about, however maybe not compelled upon many people.
And really, while you look into the info on pivots, heaps extra folks are actually and open to pivots, which I might say truly is an indication of Squiggly Profession success, that individuals are truly ready now to think about and speak about doing one thing totally different than they’ve at all times carried out. I feel that is nice we’re having these conversations. However once we talked about it earlier than, the context of that episode was Sarah and I had been sharing a few of our profession pivots. I used to be nonetheless at Microsoft then, once we had been speaking about it.
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, I used to be the Managing Director for a artistic company with a one-year-old. I do not keep in mind loving 2018, if I am sincere! I do not know the way a lot I might need to return and take heed to that episode.
Helen Tupper: Effectively, listeners, must you want to, please do, however we cannot. However yeah, that was the context on the time. So, we had been sharing a few of our personal experiences and speaking about a number of the issues while you’re possibly fascinated by a pivot. Immediately goes to be fairly much more sensible, I might say. We have got a course of so to sort of stroll by way of it step-by-step in the event you’re pondering, “Truly, I wish to make a pivot. This does positively really feel like one thing that I need to do, I simply do not fairly know how one can do it”.
Sarah Ellis: And so, as Helen mentioned, we aren’t actually going to speak concerning the emotions and the feelings that go along with pivoting, that are very actual and at occasions may be very laborious. I feel pivoting, you may type of get pivot fatigue. I used to be studying some analysis earlier than at present about folks speaking about, they have been making an attempt to make a pivot occur and it feels prefer it’s stalled or received caught, or maybe it feels prefer it stopped after which it began a bit so it is felt a bit advert hoc. And I do suppose these are all of the realities of constructing a pivot occur.
I feel it by no means occurs in a single day, I feel typically you nudge your means into pivoting. I feel pivoting, our start line due to the phrase, at all times feels actually dramatic, like we will have this in a single day change of profession, whereas I do suppose the truth is we’re more likely to sort of make a sequence of mini pivots to get to the place we’re going, reasonably than simply go from zero to hero, I assume. So, that’s sort of the context. We all know that there are moments the place you may attempt a number of the issues that we’ll speak about at present and they won’t work, otherwise you would possibly really feel such as you’re not that a lot additional ahead. However what we predict is that in the event you maintain going again to those steps to this course of, it can assist to information you in the suitable course.
Helen Tupper: And pivots are useful on your growth as a result of they maintain you studying. So while you’re pivoting, you are in all probability going to must discover ways to work with totally different folks, or how one can develop totally different abilities, or how one can get your head round a brand new context, so it is fairly a forcing operate actually for studying. It additionally lets you create extra alternatives. So, we regularly speak about one of many issues with ladder-like careers is you are typically in ‘wait’ mode, ready for the following promotion, ready for somebody to provide the subsequent challenge to work on; whereas in Squiggly Careers, we actually need to be in ‘create’ mode, as a result of that provides us extra possession over our alternatives and means we’re much less depending on anyone explicit place.
And pivots are positively a means that you just create extra prospects, since you’re getting very inquisitive about your profession and also you’re actually fascinated by, “The place can my skills take me?” way over, “The place do my titles take me?” They’re positively price trying into as a risk on your development. What we will do is speak by way of a five-part course of that will help you to do this. So, I am going to simply summarise it after which we will undergo every a part of the method in flip and simply speak it by way of and clarify what it appears like. And we’ll summarise all of it on the PodSheet, which you’ll be able to both get from the present notes or from our web site on the podcast web page. However the 5 components of the method are: (1) plot your pivot prospects; (2) spot your pivot folks; (3) create pivot tasks; (4) apply and ask; and (5) take delight in your pivot.
Sarah Ellis: So, the primary half is about plotting your prospects. That is in all probability the half that I might at all times take pleasure in essentially the most, and I feel I’ve at all times loved essentially the most once I’ve been fascinated by eager to do one thing totally different, as a result of that is once we actually need to be in ‘exploring’ mode, in producing, fascinated by concepts. We do not need to constrain ourselves too quickly. I at all times suppose the truth for many issues kicks in fairly quickly, so let’s be assured that that can occur. However for now, as you are first getting began, I do suppose right here you are contemplating the artwork of the potential, the place you would possibly go and what you would possibly do. And I feel that has to start out with you.
So, what do you need to be recognized for? What are the transferrable skills that you just need to take with you? What are these issues that actually offer you vitality? So, once I was reflecting on this for myself, I feel my most constant factor that I’ve wished to be recognized for, that is been in each pivot risk that I’ve ever explored, has at all times been round concepts. So, concepts is at all times my start line for any pivot risk. So long as I’ve received the flexibility to create and to have concepts, I am , I am intrigued, it is a good place for me to start out. Then, I feel you must join the dots between what you need to be recognized for and who wants what you need to be recognized for.
So, I at all times consider this as provide and demand. So, it is okay me saying that I need to be recognized for concepts and it is what offers me vitality, however is that what folks want? Are there roles the place they speak about being artistic or having concepts or innovating or doing issues for the primary time? If I am unable to actually see these tasks or these positions, possibly in the intervening time it is not a ability that’s in demand or possibly it is being talked about in a barely totally different means. That is the place, if I wasn’t certain about provide and demand, I might do the scanning train that we generally speak about once we speak about profession prospects, which once more I at all times take pleasure in as a result of I fairly like suspending actuality I feel for a bit, and simply numerous totally different job specs on LinkedIn and use these as a little bit of a filter for what are folks in search of. So, if I used to be totally different prospects, I might begin to see, are folks utilizing the phrases ‘concept’; are they utilizing ‘create new alternatives’, ‘alternative’ would in all probability be fairly a very good one for me to search for. And you’ll simply begin to see, “Okay, nicely I do know what I wish to do, I do know what folks want, how can I put myself ready to get near these issues?”
And I feel at this level, you might be aiming for in all probability 4 to 6 totally different pivot prospects. Possibly a few of these are fairly near what you are doing at present, possibly a few of them really feel additional away, some is perhaps in your organisation, some is perhaps outdoors, is perhaps in your trade, is perhaps outdoors your trade. So I at all times suppose, attempt to have enjoyable with this. However I do suppose generally individuals are on this stage of simply going, “I do not know what I do not know”, and I feel this may provide help to to simply get some readability on, “Okay, nicely it might appear like this, or possibly I might contemplate this chance”, and it offers you one thing to work with. You would possibly change all of it midway by way of the method, however not less than you’ve got received a place to begin.
Helen Tupper: And I feel, you realize you mentioned 4 to 6? I feel that is an essential level to make about pivots, as a result of generally you are within the position that you just’re in at present and you may see a pivot that you just need to make, and then you definitely’re simply going, “Effectively, I am in A and I would like B, that pivot”, and I nonetheless suppose that is problematic since you’ve received actually fixated on one model of the longer term, and so you are not essentially exploring round that chance. Whereas ideally, in the event you’ve received multiple pivot, there’s multiple factor that you are able to do or transfer into, then you are able to do extra exploring and create extra alternatives. So, simply as we’d say with ladders, “Do not repair your self to a singular promotion”, I feel do not repair your self to a single pivot, as a result of then you definitely’re changing into very depending on that pivot being potential.
So, having multiple is a extremely good factor. So, the second a part of the method is to identify your pivot folks. So, you go from Sarah’s train, which will get you to possibly 4 to 6 totally different pivot prospects; now, we need to take into consideration some pivot folks. Pivot folks have gotten some sort of connection to that profession risk, possibly as a result of they’re doing or have carried out the job that you just’d love to do, or possibly they work within the space that you just need to, or possibly they know any individual who could possibly be helpful to you.
So, if I take into consideration an instance pivot risk, if I used to be to consider, “What do I need to be recognized for?” So, vitality positively, profession growth; they’re two issues I actually care about. So, if I take into consideration a pivot risk for me, I lately spoke at Oxford College, which felt very large and grand, to their about 200 MBA college students at first of their MBA programme. And it did make me suppose, Sarah and I’ve talked earlier than about being some visiting professor in universities sharing squiggly abilities with college students, which I feel is interesting to us.
So I feel for me, there’s in all probability some sort of pivot risk, which is the place I am spending a part of my time supporting college students with Squiggly Careers not directly, form or kind; there is a pivot risk there. So, what I might take into consideration, with that being considered one of my pivot prospects, is possibly who already delivers some type of profession assist to a pupil context, college or sixth kind or in class, no matter that appears like; I would take into consideration who works in academia, would not essentially do what I wish to do, however works in that space and will give me some perception; or, simply any individual who’s in my community at present that is perhaps related into that space that I might have a dialog with. So, these pivot folks mainly get you nearer to that risk. All you are going to do is get in contact with them and have a curious dialog. So, this is not, “Are you able to make my pivot potential?” So, it is not that at this stage. That is, “Can I study extra about this space I am taken with, since you’re nearer to it than I’m?” That is all that is, and also you’re simply gathering info. However it is extremely seemingly, as we’ll come on to, that individuals would be the unlocker of your pivot, as a result of immediately making use of is not at all times that straightforward while you’ve not carried out the job earlier than. So, it’s useful to have these relationships. However actually at this stage, we’re simply unlocking studying, gaining extra perception.
Sarah Ellis: Anyone did this truly to me lately, the place they work at an organization that we work with, and so they mentioned they’ve at all times felt like possibly they wish to work in studying and profession growth, however they weren’t certain. And I am a fan of the voice notice.
Helen Tupper: Sure, you might be! I really like your voice notes now; I’ve grown to like them!
Sarah Ellis: You’ve got grown to like them!
Helen Tupper: I’ve. I feel I’ve simply been phrase down! I keep in mind firstly, I used to be like, “When am I alleged to take heed to this?” Now, I like them. I listened to yours at present, it was very good. You are strolling alongside and chatting and I used to be like, “Oh, that is good!”
Sarah Ellis: Yeah, I do not know what it says about me. I fairly benefit from the one-way-ness of them, I feel!
Helen Tupper: I do know, I do know that!
Sarah Ellis: However I did say to this particular person, as a result of I truly could not find time for the dialog that they wished to have instantly, however I did say, “Should you depart me a voice notice together with your questions, then I am going to reply them”, as a result of then I can do it at a bizarre, random time that works for me and we do not have to coordinate diaries, and all that sort of stuff. And so, I feel I admired that that particular person was courageous sufficient to get in contact with me and mainly ask to do this. And though I did not fairly in all probability say sure in an excellent means for them, they are going to nonetheless find yourself getting their questions answered and so they nonetheless may have made a connection. And likewise, I am going to keep in mind them, as a result of we have gone forwards and backwards a couple of occasions on voice notes, and hopefully then I would meet any individual who I am going to suppose, “Oh, it will be helpful for them to talk to that particular person”, after which instantly you’ve got created that chain of connections that we have talked about earlier than. So, quantity three is creating some pivot tasks.
So, I feel the toughest factor about pivoting is that you will do one thing that you have not carried out earlier than, and that at all times feels laborious. And infrequently, it’s nonetheless sadly simpler to recruit any individual who appears the identical because the particular person earlier than. We hope that is altering. A part of our mission round Squiggly Careers is to vary that so that individuals look first for issues like, “Effectively, are folks nice at studying, and are they good at being a newbie; are they nice at managing uncertainty and alter?” These issues in all probability really feel extra essential than whether or not you’ve got carried out an actual job earlier than. However it’s laborious and we all know that is laborious. So, your skills are going to wish to do the speaking for you. So, I feel something that you are able to do to place into follow the skills that you just need to take with you earlier than you pivot, the higher ready you may be and the extra seemingly you may be to succeed, while you get into the making use of stage. This would possibly appear like tasks, this would possibly appear like volunteering, this could possibly be facet tasks, ardour tasks, hobbies, something that you are able to do, I feel, to get some additional expertise the place you are not making an attempt to cover the truth that you have not carried out one thing earlier than.
I at all times suppose you are higher to speak about it, however what you might be exhibiting is loads of initiative and being actually proactive. And I am certain we have mentioned it earlier than, however I do not suppose that is as typical or as frequent as all people listening would possibly suppose, as a result of in the event you’re listening to a profession growth podcast, you in all probability have loads of initiative. So, you are in all probability pondering, “Effectively, certainly all people does this”, however I do not suppose folks do. And so, I feel in the event you can create these alternatives for your self, they’re small alternatives to pivot that you just’re very a lot in charge of. You are being resourceful round looking for alternatives to get expertise of your pivot earlier than you get there. It is only a sensible factor to do and you will find out extra concerning the pivots that you just’re fascinated by; you would possibly make new connections, again to what Helen was speaking about when it comes to getting the suitable folks round you; and it will not assure that you will then positively get these roles, but it surely gives you heaps extra to speak about. It can present that you just’re actually severe and also you by no means know, it would open up a unique alternative alongside the way in which as nicely.
Helen Tupper: Had an excellent e mail from somebody final week who was comparatively early on of their profession, and had gone into a job that they realised they mainly did not take pleasure in. They usually mentioned, “So, I’ve gone out and I’ve received a mentor in an space that I am taken with so I can study extra from them. And I’ve gone and I have been investing on this ability as a result of I feel that is an space I am taken with. And I volunteered to work on this challenge”, and carried out mainly all of the stuff that we’re saying right here, actually put themselves on the market. They usually messaged me and mentioned, “However I really feel like I am doing all of it unsuitable and I do not know if that is the suitable factor to do”. And most of my e mail again was like, “Please realise how constructive and proactive that you’re being. You might be doing precisely the suitable factor. You’ve got realised the factor that you just need to do is not supplying you with vitality, you are exploring and connecting and creating alternatives; it can in all probability take a little bit of time, however you might be doing it with 100% the suitable strategy”. And I felt like this particular person simply wanted a bit little bit of like —
Sarah Ellis: I suppose, reassurance.
Helen Tupper: Yeah, which I gave and I assumed, I am very pleased to provide that to somebody and she or he positively, positively deserved that reassurance, however I am like, “Anyone else ought to be reassuring you. I would like you to be getting reassurance from greater than us!”
Sarah Ellis: Have you learnt what, that is additionally not the primary time that I’ve heard that, and I do wonder if generally it is as a result of the payoff for taking these actions is not at all times quick. And so you might be like, on paper you are doing the entire proper issues, and then you definitely in all probability do get to some extent the place you are like, “Effectively, I have been doing this now for 3 months. Why has it not resulted in one thing, why am I not seeing the end result?” And I feel that then begins to really feel actually laborious, proper, since you’re like, “Effectively, I’m making an attempt actually laborious and I’m taking my initiative”, and that is the place I feel you must be decided.
And likewise, hopefully, a few of these issues that you’re doing which might be possibly outdoors of your position or that you just’re placing your hand up for, hopefully a few of these issues you might be having fun with. I feel in the event that they’re issues that you just need to get nearer to, in the event that they’re supplying you with vitality and also you’re having fun with them, in the event that they’ve not paid off but, that is in all probability okay. Should you’re feeling such as you’re having to drive them then they’re maybe not the suitable issues. That might be the opposite query simply to consider.
Helen Tupper: And I feel that hyperlinks to the fourth a part of this course of, which is about making use of. So, up till this level, you’ve got explored your prospects, you’ve got had some conversations with pivot folks, you’ve got proactively created some pivot tasks. There’s a level at which we will apply for the pivot place that we need to do. And this stage actually is about ‘apply’, but in addition ensuring that you just ‘ask’ for perception and for suggestions. And the rationale that is essential is, pivots require persistence. You won’t get the primary position that you just apply for, as a result of possibly you have not received the connection with that one who might decide on that pivot, or possibly you have not fairly received the suitable expertise but.
So, I feel simply bear that in thoughts. That is the place believing in your self and having confidence within the transfer and doing a few of these pivot tasks so you’ve got received vitality is admittedly, actually essential. And while you’re making use of, if you do not get the challenge or the place that you just’re making an attempt to pivot into, search for the educational right here, as a result of it would really feel actually irritating and also you would possibly really feel a bit dissatisfied and even demotivated about, “Oh, am I doing the suitable factor?” Actually, actually search for the educational. The training comes within the suggestions. So, for instance I am making use of for a job with Sarah, and I pivot into the job at Superb If. Sarah thinks it is not fairly the suitable transfer for me to make in the intervening time. I might go away from that and simply really feel unhappy, or I might search for the educational, which might be me saying to Sarah, “It is positively one thing I might taken with. Subsequent time I’ve a dialog about this, is there something that you just noticed in me that you just suppose it could be helpful for me to know, in order that I can put myself in a extremely constructive place sooner or later?” Ask for suggestions, ask for perception, even ask for connections, you realize, “I might prefer to study extra about this. Is there anybody that you might join me to so I can get nearer to it?” Search for the educational, create the alternatives, however simply remember that making use of does require a little bit of persistence while you’re making pivots.
Sarah Ellis: And even worse than this, I do hear, to be sincere, increasingly more examples of the place folks apply and get nothing, so get ghosted primarily. So, you get no suggestions, you get, “No, you were not profitable”, you are clearly then not getting an interview. I do suppose there may be additionally some extent the place if you’re making use of, we could say you might be getting interviews, however you are not profitable, you would possibly in some unspecified time in the future go, “Effectively, I am going to give myself a time restrict”. I at all times suppose cut-off dates are useful. So, “Over this yr [or] over the following six months, I’ll apply and be actually bold and actually go for my pivot all-out the place I might ideally prefer to go”. If after six months you are not getting any interviews, or you might be getting interviews however you are by no means being provided the position, then you definitely do want to regulate, you do have to adapt and maybe suppose in another way.
You would possibly need to suppose, “Effectively, what’s a better pivot? What’s a midway pivot?” I keep in mind pondering once I was in Sainsbury’s, “Oh, I might actually prefer to go and work in [surprise, surprise] studying and growth”. And it was actually removed from the place I used to be; I used to be working in advertising. And really, the extra I explored it, I positively would have preferred to have gone and carried out it, however I simply felt prefer it wasn’t going to occur. I might sense, I used to be like, “Oh, I am undecided they’re up for any individual coming from such a unique space. Additionally, the folks in these roles are in all probability not likely going anyplace”. I wasn’t essentially making use of, however I might been fairly persistent, having numerous the conversations, numerous the issues that we had been speaking about, getting concerned in some tasks. So, I might carried out a few of these steps that we have described.
After which I assumed, “Have you learnt what, it is in all probability not likely going to occur”. And so, I did then begin to adapt and modify and suppose, “Okay, nicely the place else and what else?” And it doesn’t suggest you must surrender on that factor you need to pivot in the direction of, as a result of clearly I did not, however I did take into consideration doing it another way. So, you may pivot outdoors for a bit, it would not at all times must be your day job, you are able to do a a lot smaller pivot. What you do not need to do is get to the purpose the place you both really feel burnt out or simply really feel actually down about your capabilities or what you have to supply, as a result of in the event you’re doing all this stuff, you’ll be nice. The opposite high tip I might have truly, in the event you’re fascinated by pivoting, search for individuals who have gotten a observe report of recruiting pivoting folks, as a result of I feel these individuals are already open to people who find themselves squiggling.
And clearly, all people ought to be open to squiggling, however we have not received to all people but. We are going to do, we’ll; that is our lifetime mission. Our legacy will probably be to get to all people to persuade them about Squiggly Careers!
Helen Tupper: Effectively, working example, I used to be with TikTok at present, launching TikTok’s Profession Week and speaking about Squiggly Careers, and I had a panel of six totally different folks from TikTok who had been speaking about their profession. They usually had been tremendous, super-pivot-y. They’d carried out so many alternative issues in numerous markets and totally different industries. And so clearly you are like, “Oh, that could be a model which values folks’s skills over their titles”. Most of these folks hadn’t made a title-based transfer. And I feel asking folks, “Do folks pivot in your organization?” or simply speaking to folks about their Squiggly Profession tales and listening to, that is all I did at present, and also you’re listening to and you are going, “Oh, they’re attention-grabbing strikes that individuals have made”. I feel an organization that prioritises the attention-grabbing strikes folks have made and helps them to maneuver into extra attention-grabbing strikes, that are not at all times logical and linear, is a little bit of a sign that they are going to be extra open to any individual who desires to pivot. So, yeah, I positively suppose search for pivot recruiters, search for corporations the place there are Squiggly Profession tales in them; they’re at all times a very good signal that they is perhaps extra open to those sorts of strikes.
Sarah Ellis: And the final one, so quantity 5, is about taking delight in your pivot. And this actually hyperlinks to the Squiggly Profession tales that Helen simply talked about. We see, time and time once more, that when folks share their tales, it reveals all people else what may be and what they’ll do, and it simply feels actually inspiring, and on the similar time, reasonable and related. You make one thing that feels laborious to do, rather more accessible by sharing your Squiggly Profession story. So, in case you have pivoted, please be sure you speak to folks about it, what labored for you, what did not work, what helped you, what felt actually laborious. And that does not must be on one thing like LinkedIn, although after all it may be, or TikTok, if you would like it to be, but it surely could possibly be simply in your crew or in your organization. And I feel all people has a pivot story of their Squiggly Profession someplace alongside the way in which.
And you might even do as a crew train, “What is the pivot you’ve got made in your Squiggly Profession to this point that maybe would possibly shock folks, or what did you study from it?” as a result of actually early on in your profession, everybody at all times does a variety of jobs. So, in some unspecified time in the future you should have, I do not know, pivoted from doing all of your newspaper spherical to being an aerobics teacher, in the event you’re me. That might be considered one of my funnier pivots previously! Unsure there was a great deal of transferrable expertise. Possibly speaking to folks a bit bit, operating away from scary canines once I was posting newspapers and stuff, staying match. However I feel getting folks to simply share their tales actually sticks. And I feel by no means underestimate how a lot we reply to tales. And it is also actually good so that you can be happy with them, but in addition it is how one can have a ripple impact on different folks too.
Helen Tupper: I additionally suppose, if you wish to make extra pivots sooner or later, it is helpful for folks to virtually see your pivotability.
Sarah Ellis: You are actually making an attempt to make {that a} phrase, aren’t you?!
Helen Tupper: Yeah, I am completely making this a phrase!
Sarah Ellis: You had been like, “I need to make it a phrase”!
Helen Tupper: “What’s your pivotability?”
Sarah Ellis: And also you wrote on the high of this, I am going to say script, in inverted commas, you had been like, “I actually like ‘pivotability'”. So, I used to be like, “I am simply not going to touch upon that”!
Helen Tupper: So, my level although on pivotability is that if I, I imply I do not actually do that in the intervening time, however I’ve made fairly a couple of pivots. So, if I talked concerning the pivots I had made, like trade pivots and issues like that, it could give a way of confidence in my pivotability, the truth that you might transfer me to totally different positions and I am fairly good at selecting up a brand new place or selecting up a brand new trade.
So virtually, I feel if you wish to do multiple pivot in your profession, in the event you suppose, “This can be a great way for me to develop”, I feel having some confidence in telling your Squiggly Profession pivot story, “These are pivots I’ve made, that is what I realized from it”, all that sort of stuff, helps different folks to really feel assured in unlocking future pivots so that you can do. Since you’ve proven that you just’re tried and examined like, “That is one thing that I do nicely, and due to this fact it is a straightforward factor for me to do to pivot into a brand new place, as a result of I’ve received expertise of doing it successfully earlier than”. That is what I imply by pivotability!
Sarah Ellis: We’ll see. We could see whether or not it catches on or not?!
Helen Tupper: I do not know, what is the signal that the time period ‘pivotability’ catches on? Okay, right here we go, let’s have a look at. Should you suppose pivotability is, let’s give it, is {that a} helpful time period or a ineffective time period, e mail us! You could have by no means emailed us earlier than. You’ll be able to actually simply say, helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com, and within the topic line, “Pivotability equals ‘helpful’ or ‘ineffective'”. After which, I am going to additionally put up about it on LinkedIn and I am going to see whether or not it sticks; you by no means know!
Sarah Ellis: It appears like a type of, I imply we will not speak as a result of we’re writing a ebook in the intervening time, however like so many enterprise books really feel like they must be one phrase. “Pivotability”, our books are very a lot —
Helen Tupper: “The pivot impact”!
Sarah Ellis: Yeah! There in all probability is; there may be in all probability a ebook referred to as that. However we hope that has been helpful for you. We all know pivoting is tough, it takes perseverance and persistence. So, good luck if you’re going by way of this course of in the intervening time.
And if there’s one thing we have missed, in case you have pivoted efficiently and also you suppose, “Oh, truly, it would be actually useful if the Squiggly Profession listeners knew about… and Sarah and Helen did not point out it”, get in contact with us, tell us, message us on LinkedIn, as a result of we are able to at all times embrace it as a part of the assets that we share, whether or not that is on issues just like the PodNote or the PodSheet. We put all of these issues collectively so that you’ve got all the things in a single place, but in addition to attempt to make our concepts and the actions straightforward so that you can share with different folks too.
Helen Tupper: And we additionally put another really helpful assets. So, I feel an knowledgeable on this space is Jenny Blake, who’s written a ebook referred to as Pivot, in order that’s positively a really helpful learn, or a pay attention in the event you’d reasonably take heed to books. However that’s all the things from us this week, and so we’ll be again with you very quickly, all people. Bye for now.
Sarah Ellis: Bye everybody!
