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

leaders end the tug of war between driving results and driving employee engagement.

We do leader activation boot camps, keynotes, and pulse checks to help you build the custom

blueprint you need to move forward. Let us know what you need. So about those boot camps,

you know, one of my favorite parts about running them is that I get to peek behind the curtain

about what groups of leaders are seeing and experiencing. Maybe most interesting to me is the

fact that there are themes, like common things that pop up,

whether I'm working with a leadership team in healthcare or retail or finance. Turns out,

people are people. It's weird, right? But the other great thing about these boot camps is that

because I have several touch points with the same group over several weeks,

I get to see real-life results happen,

because over the course of the program, we move from learning to asking our teams the right questions to defining and implementing real action.

I get to watch leaders realize, not to take it from me, but to learn from themselves,

that they do have the power

to make changes, just small ones to start, but changes that have positive impacts on their

teams and the results they deliver. For today, I thought it might be helpful to share with you

some of those pesky things that seem to pop up across industries and to share some of the

strategies that I'm watching real life leaders implement because maybe there's a nugget in here for your

team. The first is meetings with no movement. You know, meetings that are a fail, like for one of the

following reasons. Either it was nothing but an update, should have been an email.

Or it was a meeting whose ending was defined by a clock versus an actual achieved outcome.

Or a meeting full of people, all interested, but none of whom had the power to actually decide, or move things forward.

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