
Modern Mentor
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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Mar 13, 2018 • 7min
493 - It's Not About the Tool, It's About the Workflow
Before you start using a new tool, make sure that you aren't optimizing the trees and forgetting the forest.
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Mar 5, 2018 • 7min
492 - How to Coach People Around You (Quickly and Effectively)
Rather than giving people answers, Michael Bungay-Stanier's book The Coaching Habit offers questions that lead them to find their own answers.
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Feb 26, 2018 • 9min
491 - How to Resist Social Media and Reconnect with IRL Friends
Rather than subjecting your brain and your relationships to the manipulative mechanisms of social media, use social media to trigger and deepen real life connections.
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Feb 19, 2018 • 6min
490 - How to Make Great Progress Using Accountability
The killer app when it comes to stopping procrastination and getting things done is to engage the part of your brain that feels social obligation.
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Feb 12, 2018 • 7min
489 - How to Overcome Perfectionism
Perfectionism is one of the greatest obstacles to movement. Instead of the perfect product, shoot for the perfect process. You'll get farther than you ever imagined possible!
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Feb 5, 2018 • 8min
488 - How to Be Deliberate with Your Distractions
Don't let clickbait run your life. Here's how to find and destroy the hidden time killers that seem useful but really suck away at your productivity.
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Jan 25, 2018 • 14min
BONUS: Introducing Launch
Three out of five people dream of writing a book. Few follow through. What does it take to take that from dream to reality? Screenwriter John August (Go, Big Fish, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) sought to find out as he tackled something he’d only ever dreamed of: writing a novel. From Wondery, this is a show about putting something out into the world. How will it turn out? You’ll know when we do.
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Jan 22, 2018 • 6min
486 - How to Schedule Meetings When Traveling
When traveling and scheduling a lot of meetings, you want to make the best possible use of your time. Yet negotiating individual meeting times is a lot of work. There's a simpler way: batch your scheduling.
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Jan 15, 2018 • 8min
485 - How to Easily Manage and Secure Your Passwords
In this day and age, everything needs a password. Use good password hygiene so you use passwords, safely.
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Jan 8, 2018 • 6min
484 - How to Plan Properly with Deadlines and Milestones
Proper use of deadlines and milestones will help keep your project moving, even with an unrealistic boss and a daunting project plan.
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