Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor.

I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm specializing in helping leaders crack their activation codes, unlocking both engagement and performance.

And today, I want to talk about your employee experience, as in how it's been through 2023.

This year has thrown a lot at us, and a lot of people around me

are struggling to feel engaged or excited or even just not drowning and overwhelm. I think many

of us are hoping for a better employee experience in 2024. Our ability to deliver great work,

develop new skills, connect with team and purpose,

and to thrive, to feel well and whole. And what you need to know is that whatever your company does or doesn't have planned, there's a lot you can do to shape the employee experience that you

have. So today, let's identify some things you can do for

yourself in the new year to maintain the parts that were great and to change or shift the parts

that you would rather just not repeat. So let's start with your ability to deliver, because it is in

our nature to want to do amazing things.

So how well were you able to deliver great work this year? Here are some questions to reflect on.

Were your goals and expectations clear? Did you understand what you needed to achieve? Did decisions get made in a timely manner or did you find yourself stuck in waiting mode a lot?

Did you have easy access to the tools and information and resources you need to get your work done?

Were you generally able to decide on a course of action and go and execute or did you feel like you

needed to ask permission at every step? How well did basic processes and policies serve your ability to be efficient?

And how about your priorities? Were you clear on what they were? And did you have an appropriate

number of them? So with those answers, what are some actions you can take? Like if you felt, for

example, like priorities kept being added to your list, but

nothing ever seemed to be subtracted, maybe you ask your boss for a bi-weekly check-in next year.

This way, you can consistently confirm that you're focusing on the right things, while also

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