Modern Mentor

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November 03 Six scary things worth doing at work, and how to do them well
920. Too many of us are holding back at work. Not from laziness, but from fear. Fear of looking difficult, of not being a team player, of getting it wrong in front of the room. Rachel Cooke makes the case that the work suffers when we stay quiet, and walks through six “scary” moves worth making, plus how to make each one feel a whole lot less scary.

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15 min
October 27 Is it your people or your process? The Ready CEO Rodney Evans on fixing how work gets done.
919. When your team keeps missing its goals, is it a people problem or a process problem? Most leaders assume it’s the people. After 20 years inside organizations, Rodney Evans rarely buys it. The CEO of The Ready joins host Rachel Cooke to explain why people respond rationally to the systems they work in, and why leaders can hire heroes to overcome a broken system only until those heroes burn out and leave. Rodney and Rachel dig into why leaders dismiss day-to-day fixes as too small to matter, how Rodney gets CEOs to pay attention to meetings and who gets to decide what, and why debates like whether remote work is real are still going a decade later. Plus, she offers advice for anyone feeling stuck, starting with finding out what their real constraints are.

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38 min
October 20 Five icebreakers that actually work for team meetings
918. You need to open a meeting, and the usual icebreaker makes everyone cringe. Chosen with intention, a warmup does real work by warming up the exact muscles a team needs for the job in front of it. Rachel Cooke shares five of her favorites, from reflection cards to a Would You Rather deck. She explains how she matches each one to what the meeting needs to accomplish, whether that’s getting a stuck team to decide, building trust for a hard conversation or helping a new team connect.

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15 min
October 13 How to get your team working together again
917. Lots of teams have quietly stopped being teams. They're capable people sprinting in their own directions, connected by a reporting line and little else. Rachel Cooke explains why that fragmentation is lonely for people and expensive for the organization, and offers four ways to put the team back together: a shared winning aspiration, forums for deciding together, smarter use of one-on-ones, and protected time to reconnect.

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15 min
October 06 Four questions to help your team get better at AI
916. Getting better at AI isn't a technology problem. It's a work design problem. Drawing on a corporate "digital transformation" that never quite landed, Rachel Cooke explains why skill without structure has nothing to hold onto. She then walks through four questions that build that structure: what you're trying to win, whether your tools and guardrails match your expectations, where AI belongs in your highest-value work, and how your team learns together while the technology keeps changing.

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12 min
October 01 5 questions to ask before asking more of your team
915. Your team missed the deadline, and the reasons are starting to sound like excuses. The instinct is to push harder: tighter check-ins, a firmer performance conversation, more pressure applied in the same direction. But the fastest move and the most useful move are rarely the same one. In this episode, Rachel Cooke walks through five self-directed questions she uses with coaching clients whose teams have stalled, from "what if I'm wrong" to "can you define good" to "what distance have you already traveled."

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15 min
September 22 Five moves to tell a better story in your year-end review
914. How do you get ready for your year-end review? And should you be starting now? Most of us reduce our professional story to the obvious stuff – titles, job descriptions, the big projects – and lose the truest evidence of how we actually work. Borrowing a page from college-admissions expert Sara Harberson, Rachel walks through five moves to uncover your fuller professional story, with enough time for year-end.

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11 min
September 15 The unsexy fix for meetings, deadlines, and cross-team conflict
913. When something's broken at work, we reach for the big fix — the reorg, the new tool, the strategy overhaul. But ask people to describe their perfect coffee and they'll say rich, dark, bold. Put a cup in front of them and they reach for weak and milky. Rachel Cooke applies that same gap to work, where what's holding you back usually isn't strategy. It's the thousand small snags you've stopped noticing. Here's how to find one and ease it from right where you sit.

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13 min
September 08 How to handle uncertainty at work when your boss doesn't have the answers
912. Your boss used to have answers. Now they've got questions. It feels destabilizing - but Rachel makes the case that this is the opening of a lifetime. When certainty disappears, the old rules about who has the answers go with it. Four bold moves for a moment that's wide open.

Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!
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11 min
September 01 How to build workplace community in a remote AI-driven world
911. You can spend an entire day on video calls and still not have one real conversation. The connection that used to come free with the office doesn't come free anymore. After a trip to California wine country, Rachel Cooke found herself fixated less on the wine than on the village each winery had built around itself, and on what that says about connection in a remote, global, AI-driven workplace. Three reasons to build your own village, on purpose.

Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!
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12 min

About Modern Mentor

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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,…