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Rachel Cooke is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to help you balance your work and personal life, effectively invest your time, and be mindful about where you’re devoting your energy. Let Rachel help you navigate your path to success—however you define it.
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Dec 21, 2020 • 8min
628 - How to Be Confident, Not Arrogant
The struggle to exude confidence at work is real, but sometimes the quest for confidence slides into arrogance. Rachel shares her own hard-earned lessons with four tips to help you project confidence without being a jerk.
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Dec 14, 2020 • 9min
627 - How to Become Open to Change
The urge to stay in your comfort zone is perfectly normal. But being ready to roll with change has also become a business-critical skill. Here are five easier-than-you-think strategies to help you embrace the unknown.
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Dec 7, 2020 • 10min
626 - How to Make Professional Resolutions You'll Actually Keep
About 80% of New Year's resolutions fail, including the ones we make about our work lives. That's because most of us approach them all wrong. Here's the right way to make professional resolutions for 2021 that you can actually stick to ... and celebrate!
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Nov 30, 2020 • 9min
625 - How to Run a Virtual Brainstorm that Actually Works
Are you thinking that brainstorming just won't work in a virtual world? Think again! Here's how to prepare and run a brainstorm that inspires a flood of creative ideas.
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Nov 16, 2020 • 24min
623 - Prepare Yourself for the Future of Work
In 2020, a global pandemic and a powerful social justice movement have brought the future of work hurtling toward us. We talked to Vice President of People and Communities at Cisco Systems, Elaine Mason, about what to expect and how to prepare for professional success.
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Nov 9, 2020 • 11min
622 - Why Vulnerability Is a Misunderstood Professional Superpower
No matter how much you may want to, you can't be amazing at everything. Enter the most misunderstood workplace superpower around—vulnerability. Here's how to use it to propel yourself to personal and professional success.
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Nov 2, 2020 • 9min
621 - How to Use The Five Apology Languages
A disingenuous apology is worse than none at all. When you make a mistake, the five apology languages can help you step up and own it with grace.
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Oct 26, 2020 • 15min
620 - Can Your Craft Become Your Livelihood? A Conversation with Grant Ginder
Many of us believe (or we've been told by well-meaning others) that our creative passions aren't the stuff careers are made of. Novelist Grant Ginder says that's wrong. The road to turning your creative loves into a career may be a winding path, but it's a path nonetheless.
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Oct 19, 2020 • 10min
619 - Creative Talents Languishing at Your Job? Be an Intrapreneur
If you love to create and innovate, and you also love the comfort and security of working for a company, then it's time to consider Intrapreneurship, the perfect blend of both worlds!
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Oct 12, 2020 • 9min
618 - How to Get Referrals and Fuel Your Success
Whether you're looking to grow clients or get promoted at work, a referral can be your most powerful path to success. But how do you get people motivated to refer you? Here's your simple roadmap to building a referral network that works for you.
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