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Employee Experience Employee Wellness Organizational Effectiveness

August 26, 2025

The Movie That Changed My Life

We can learn something from Billy Blanks. We can rework the work to drive results and engagement without sacrificing employee wellbeing.

Rachel Cooke

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Explosion - Time to Stop Blowing Up the Container

Leadership Development Organizational Effectiveness

August 12, 2025

Time to Stop Blowing Up the Container

Instead of blowing up the container with org design (new structures, org charts, etc.), consider a better lever: work design.

Rachel Cooke

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Leading Through Change Organizational Effectiveness

November 12, 2024

These Unsteady Times

Let’s consider a new framework for leading change in today’s world. Here’s what you can do as a leader in the face of so much change.

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Organizational Culture Organizational Effectiveness

December 16, 2022

Your 4 Talent Plays for 2023

Your 4 Talent Plays for 2023 Talent has really given us a run for our money this year. They’ve resigned greatly, they’ve quit quietly. They’ve been in short supply, and also we’ve laid them off.…

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Organizational Culture Organizational Effectiveness

November 17, 2022

Why It May Be Time to Stop Listening

Silence has something to teach us If you’ve been listening to the world around you, then you know there’s been a collective rallying cry for more listening. Professionally and politically, calls for active listening, for demonstrating…

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Organizational Effectiveness

November 1, 2022

How to Fuel Future Plans with Hindsight Intelligence

We’re all sitting on piles of golden rocket fuel… I ran a team offsite last week. In person. With people and pants and posters. It was so great. As we look ahead, let’s also look…

Rachel Cooke

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June 22, 2022

Is Organizational Sludge Driving Your Talent Away?

These days it feels like bad bosses and toxic culture get all the airtime when it comes to reasons why people leave jobs.

Rachel Cooke

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Employee Experience Organizational Effectiveness

June 13, 2022

The 4 Horsemen of the Decision-Making Apocalypse

Decision-making is coming up in Pulse Checks a lot these days. But the conversations aren’t about power or entitlement.

Rachel Cooke

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Leadership Development Organizational Effectiveness

April 22, 2022

5 Ways to Recharge + Lift Your Leadership Development

We’ve infused a lot of leadership development into this past year. Organizations are recognizing the need to invest in their leaders – to grow their capabilities, to leave them feeling invested in.

Rachel Cooke

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Communication Leadership Development Organizational Effectiveness

February 18, 2022

How (and Why) to Run a Wayfinding Session

In the earliest days of the pandemic we all went into GO-mode. We scrambled and raced and efforted…we carried worlds on our shoulders to keep it all on the rails.

Rachel Cooke

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Organizational Effectiveness

The Movie That Changed My Life

Time to Stop Blowing Up the Container

These Unsteady Times

Your 4 Talent Plays for 2023

Why It May Be Time to Stop Listening

How to Fuel Future Plans with Hindsight Intelligence

Is Organizational Sludge Driving Your Talent Away?

The 4 Horsemen of the Decision-Making Apocalypse

5 Ways to Recharge + Lift Your Leadership Development

How (and Why) to Run a Wayfinding Session

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