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  • Five icebreakers that actually work for team meetings

    October 20, 2026 · 14 min

    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…

  • How to get your team working together again

    October 13, 2026 · 14 min

    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…

  • Four questions to help your team get better at AI

    October 6, 2026 · 11 min

    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…

  • 5 questions to ask before asking more of your team

    October 1, 2026 · 14 min

    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…

  • Five moves to tell a better story in your year-end review

    September 22, 2026 · 10 min

    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…

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  • The unsexy fix for meetings, deadlines, and cross-team conflict

    September 15, 2026 · 12 min

    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…

  • How to handle uncertainty at work when your boss doesn't have the answers

    September 8, 2026 · 10 min

    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…

  • How to build workplace community in a remote AI-driven world

    September 1, 2026 · 11 min

    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…

  • Billy Eichner on why success comes from love not trauma

    August 25, 2026 · 37 min

    910. What do you do when there's no template for the career you want, no obvious next step, and no one waiting to hand you the opportunity? Comedian, actor, and writer Billy Eichner built his entire career by refusing to wait to be chosen…

  • Why your hard work isn't paying off and what's really slowing progress

    August 18, 2026 · 14 min

    909. Your strategy is sound. Your people are talented. Everyone's working harder than ever. So why aren't the results showing up? Rachel makes the case that when work breaks down, we inspect the people when we should be inspecting the work…

  • A fresh approach to managing burnout

    August 15, 2026 · 28 min

    On a road trip, tackling a summer cleanup, or just catching up on podcasts? QDT has you covered with Summer Saturday encores from your favorite shows. See the full Summer Saturday lineup on Spotify and enjoy this episode, which first aired…

  • When it comes to managing, do I do it fast or right? (Reissue)

    August 11, 2026 · 9 min

    697. We get a lot of mixed messaging when it comes to managing the tension between speed and efficiency. We need to be sure—to have the data, to have done the research and the analysis before deciding or implementing. But also, we need to…

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About the show

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.