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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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Apr 9, 2018 • 7min
497 - How to Use 'Good Enough' to Beat Perfectionism
Perfectionism is caused by the illusion of immortality. Take away that illusion, and you'll get things done, pronto.
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Apr 2, 2018 • 6min
496 - How to Avoid Misunderstandings When Asking Questions
When asking or answering questions, make your underlying assumptions and motives explicit. You'll get and give answers more quickly, and avoid all kinds of potential emotional landmines.
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Mar 20, 2018 • 11min
BONUS: Introducing Safe For Work
If you listen to my show, you're someone who cares about creating a workplace environment that is productive, professional, and free from distractions. So I know you'll love this special bonus clip I have for you today, which comes from a new podcast from Wondery called Safe For Work, hosted by Liz Dolan and Matt Ritter.
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Mar 20, 2018 • 7min
494 - How to Improve Communication by Text (and Texting)
Text is a very limited medium. Make sure you're using it so it gets your point across.
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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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