Rachel Cooke

Communication Employee Experience Talent Engagement

April 16, 2020

What’s Your Noise?

When I named my company, Lead Above Noise, six years ago, I was shooting for pithy and on-brand in three words or fewer. Those were my three. And I stand by them now more than…

Rachel Cooke

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Employee Experience Employee Wellness

April 8, 2020

Anxiety. Resilience. Some Resources to Support You.

So much in this moment is hard. Scary. And yet, there is something about its universality that's been sitting with me. I've had so many conversations in recent weeks whose themes echo all the other…

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Employee Experience Employee Wellness Leadership Development

March 28, 2020

What Leaders are Getting Dangerously Wrong Right Now. And How to Fix it.

The convergence of the persistent Covid pandemic with the racial injustice and calls to action in the US (and abroad) has led to a moment in which emotions and stakes are running hotter and higher…

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Leadership Development

March 11, 2020

Let Your Operating Principles Lead You to Success

Read on to learn: how a set of Operating Principles can serve in your success; what a set of Operating Principles can look like; how you can develop your own set…for yourself or for your…

Rachel Cooke

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Employee Experience Organizational Effectiveness Talent Engagement

February 11, 2020

Let Einstein and Hanlon show you how... I recently ran a workshop for a leadership team needing help with its business problem-solving capability. So we did indeed develop solutions for some of their challenges.

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Employee Experience Organizational Culture Talent Engagement

January 15, 2020

Unbox Your Frustration – It’s Telling You Something!

I’ve always taken issue with the idea of “no pain, no gain.” It’s a little masochistic for my taste. I will concede, however, that sometimes there are gains to come from pain.

Rachel Cooke

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Employee Experience Leadership Development Leading Through Change

December 21, 2019

Renew and Refresh: Lean Into Learning – Not Panic

In 2020 there will rightly be tremendous focus on the Employee Experience (EX). Whether shaping our own (yes we can!) or crafting our team's experience, Development must command our attention.

Rachel Cooke

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Organizational Effectiveness Talent Engagement

December 12, 2019

Let’s Undercomplicate How Work Gets Done

What if conversation design could save you from org design?

Rachel Cooke

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Employee Experience Employee Wellness

December 10, 2019

Survive the Dangerous Culture of “Do More With Less”

Raised by a children’s librarian, my youthful heart belonged exclusively to Shel Silverstein. Every one of his poems delivered a clever punchline if you were in on the joke. And I was…most of the time.

Rachel Cooke

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Organizational Culture Organizational Effectiveness Talent Engagement

November 27, 2019

It’s Time to Rethink Productivity

Raised by a children’s librarian, my youthful heart belonged exclusively to Shel Silverstein. Every one of his poems delivered a clever punchline if you were in on the joke. And I was…most of the time.

Rachel Cooke

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Rachel Cooke

What’s Your Noise?

Anxiety. Resilience. Some Resources to Support You.

What Leaders are Getting Dangerously Wrong Right Now. And How to Fix it.

Let Your Operating Principles Lead You to Success

Be an Awesome Problem Solver

Unbox Your Frustration – It’s Telling You Something!

Renew and Refresh: Lean Into Learning – Not Panic

Let’s Undercomplicate How Work Gets Done

Survive the Dangerous Culture of “Do More With Less”

It’s Time to Rethink Productivity

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