Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm

specializing in helping teams and organizations optimize their working experience.

The thing about great working experiences is that, well, they require hard work. And I mean,

not so much hard in the sense of effort, but I guess in our

willingness to talk about hard stuff, like stuff that feels uncomfortable or awkward or even likely

to trigger feelings we just don't want to deal with. And so many of us, and yes, me too,

are guilty of just not having that conversation.

Because things right now aren't that bad, right?

But if we had the conversation and we had it well, we know in our hearts that things could be so much better.

Like, imagine your boss is great.

You know, mostly.

He's supportive of you.

He coaches you.

He respects your boundaries.

But you're ready for the next level and you need exposure to other leaders.

And anytime you work on a presentation, your boss ends up doing all the presenting while you sit quietly in the back.

Or maybe you have a colleague who is smart and well-meaning, but they have these habits that

sometimes make collaboration a little painful.

Like they send 17 emails that if they had just done a little bit of organizing probably

could have been one.

Or they don't check with you before making decisions that leave you

with extra administrative stuff on your plate. In both of these situations, you could just not

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