Rachel Cooke

So many of these cracks are so solvable! Or…they would be. If people would stop being such damn superheroes! #hero

Understanding of what you’re being called to do, you’ll find yourself ready if not to remove the coat then at least to undo the top few buttons

As an adult living in – well, you know – I see wisdom and genius. I see a metaphor for a path forward. #inclusion

Let's do it. Let's talk about the 5 failures I keep seeing - and land on some better ways to getting it done! #change #inclusion

When priorities aren’t clear, teams end up in survival mode—reacting instead of proactively planning, imagining, or innovating. #inclusion

Construction left him clunky. Unagile. Monstrous. And who among us hasn’t used one of those words to describe the workplace at some point? #work

When we avoid asking our teams what they need more - for fear of not being able to deliver on the ask…then we need to reframe. #inclusion

The Band Aids. Problem is, we've convinced ourselves they're a solution. Which means, we're not seeking the solutions we actually need. #leader

Know when you show up for the dragon tour but you get a life-altering lesson on the intrigue of ancient trash? I mean, we’ve all been there #trash

Being lulled into a false sense of safety. Believing the running of an annual engagement survey will protect them from disengagement. #inclusion

Our belief in its magic often leaves us standing still. When we should be doing the everyday work of Activating our teams. #inclusion

While hard changes are hard, they’re a part of business of life. And there are ways to just do it better. Here are some of my thoughts. #life #work

It’s a strategic directive. Not a political one. Because the struggle with change is real. And this advice holds the key. #leaders #change

You want all these things. You should want all these things. But are you earning them? #leaders #inclusion #advisors

Even in kindergarten, I understood that one dollar holds more value than 5 pennies. Value wins over quantity. #value #inclusion

Trust and engagement wane. Your least engaged employees may leave or pull others down with them. #inclusion #employees

A Pulse Check, well-run, delivers incredible value in some unassuming ways. As a replacement for – or an addendum to – a survey #advisors

Delivering results while Developing new skills, Connecting to community and purpose, and Thriving - feeling well and whole and recognized. #advisors

The team would ask and answer – at every decision – point the question: Will it make the boat go faster? #inclusion #advisors

They wanna talk unicorns. I wanna talk elephants. As in - they're seeking the ethereal silver bullet. #advisors #inclusion

They represent small acts. Little experiments. Steps in a direction that we can quickly revise or evolve if that step takes us the wrong way. #iclusion

We leave your team feeling uber-engaged, and your leadership with confidence, clarity, and a near-term action plan that’s talent gold.

Culture is - and always has been - woven into the DNA of your words, your actions, your routines. #culture #inclusion

Talent is pointing us in clear directions. And today I share some of their biggest, no-dollar-required asks. #inclusion

Times of recession bring hardship…but also, tremendous opportunity for leaders if we seek it. #recession #leaders

Saying they’ll get to employee experience eventually. But for now, they’re focused on more pressing talent issues. #employee #experience

Occurs in the workplace all the time. Mostly not the puddles. But the missing of early signals. And the professional version of puddles. #burnout #advisors

Countless things may touch the EX. But shifting the EX in meaningful ways means understand where the impact lies. And filtering out the rest. #inclusion

Funny thing. Everyone I know comes from a zany family. But no one I know is the zany one. What are the odds, right? #advisors #math

Cutting and containing costs to meet immediate financial goals. But we’re losing sight of the deeper impacts these cuts are having on our talent.

Here’s the plan. Assume everyone is carrying some low-grade anxiety around. It’s weighing them down. #anxiety #employees

I'm continually finding employees wishing for things that their #leadership swears are already present! #employeeexperience

The fresh start is ours for the taking. So how will you be tackling 2023? Me – I’m going for simple. #advisors

We make space for #dialog and #debate. Two fabulous enablers of a powerful #employeeexperience - the brand that engages teams while delivering results.

Four #talent plays – based on the menagerie of insights I collected this year – that I think set us all up for a win. 

If you’ve been listening to the world around you, then you know there’s been a collective rallying cry for more listening. #business #success

If you were to put your year-to-date under a microscope, what would jump out at you? And how would you use that insight to fuel you forward?

Don’t wait for your team to hit a wall of misery. Open the door to making small improvements to their daily experience. #workforce

Leadership Development is a lever we love to pull...and then love to hate. Because it didn't pay off. #leadership #growth

Today’s about the importance of the explicit. Not the kind we bleep. But the kind we see and hear. Out loud. #employees #workforce

Change has been forever changed. It’s become pervasive, unchosen, unbounded, never-ending – and we’re kind of exhausted.

Organizations have opportunities across all four, but today I share the most resonant theme I’m seeing in each quadrant. #employees

We’re starting to burn out on #burnout. It was big and then it started fading, and now it seems again in full force. #workforce

As I work with leadership teams to define their FOW, I'm leaning on some core principles to help us lay the bricks ahead as we go.

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

The enterprise value framework is designed to help CEOs define how their organizations will create value. It’s comprised of 3 components.

Have a clearer vision, and develop and implement solutions collaboratively with - not at - your team or organization. #business

Pulse Checks serve as wonderful enhancements to engagement surveys, stay interviews, organizational change initiatives, and so much more.

Debate, even disagreement, in its purest form is not these. It’s candor and openness and humility and listening and momentum. And it fuels results.

Critically underlying a successful session is communication from the leader to participants – before and absolutely after.