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

leaders tweak how their teams do the work so that results stay strong and engagement and

well-being thrive inside the work. When leaders learn to do this well, everyone wins. And I would

love to come speak at your next event or offsite to deliver the clarity,

confidence, and tools that your leaders need to bring this shift to life.

Reach out today at leadabovenoise.com slash connect. So I recently visited Boston's Isabella

Gardner Stewart Museum. It's lovely, like this really incredible collection. And we had this tour

guide, Linda, who was fantastic. She knew everything about every piece. Her tour was perfectly mapped

and choreographed. Her job was to teach and tell. And our job was to follow and absorb and appreciate. She had the answers,

she knew the root, and that's exactly what you want in a museum tour guide. But also, it occurs

to me that too many of us are kind of going for the Linda at work. We're performing certainty.

We're trying to be the one with all the answers, the one who

knows the route. But relatively few of us are working in museums. We're hanging in companies

and hospitals and government agencies. Spaces where things are changing pretty constantly.

Technology is evolving. Markets are shifting, teams are reorging.

We are navigating uncertainty all the time. We're not delivering a scripted tour. We don't need to

show up like tour guides. We need to show up like we're on an expedition because we are. And how

you show up matters. So here are five ways to contribute like you're on in expedition, not a museum tour.

First, share what you're seeing, not what you know.

Tour guides deliver facts with certainty.

Expedition members share their observations.

In a meeting, this might be the difference between our conversion rate is dropping because customers don't like our pricing. This is

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