Hey, it's Rachel Koch, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help

leaders activate performance and engagement without burning out. We do off-sites, boot camps,

workshops, and keynotes, whatever you need. And if your organization could use a boost,

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and I'm all ears. Okay, on to today. So I was one of those kids, and I know I'm not alone here,

who would come home with the 98 on the test,

and my parents immediately wanted to know what happened to the other two points.

Can you relate?

Thing is, my parents were great, really, and they were joking, mostly.

But the truth is, the human eye and mind are drawn to what's wrong or what's missing

over what's right and what's working. You know, when your boss says 10 amazing things about you

and one piece of here's something you can work on feedback, we all know which of those 11 things

takes up the most real estate in your brain. I'm sure there's an

evolutionary reason for this, something about saving ourselves from the saber-toothed tiger and all.

But given that saber-tooth tiger sightings in the workplace have been pretty low this year,

don't we all wish we could focus just a little more on the positives? And the good news is,

this isn't just about protecting ourselves emotionally. It's actually a really strong problem-solving approach. The craft of

appreciative inquiry, or as I sometimes call it, the other AI, has been around for years. And it's

something I use a lot with clients when we're trying to

activate stronger results. We dive deep, not into what's broken, but into what's already working.

And we explore what those things have to teach us. So today, let's talk about how you might use

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