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

leaders design work so that results, wellness, and engagement all thrive together. And if you're a

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Okay, on to today's episode. So last week, a client of mine, she's the head of HR for her company,

was venting to me about this wellness program that

her team had launched just the week before. So much time and money went into this program,

she told me, we were expecting a few hundred people, but only three showed up, literally three,

and I don't get it. Employees keep telling us in our engagement survey that they're desperate for wellness.

And then no one shows up when we launch something. And I told her, listen, I'm guessing they don't have the time.

And yeah, she knew this was probably true. But she asked around a bit to validate and it was pretty clear.

This is what we keep doing.

We keep trying to solve problems by bolting things on top of the work.

We try to repair the overwhelm and exhaustion and disconnection we're creating.

But I read this quote recently by a guy named Eric J. McNulty in an article that said,

Elegant Solutions mitigate stress in the systems while fostering flow, the feeling that individual and collective effort are optimized for achieving desired outcomes.

It's a little wonky. But really, this for me is the crux of so much. We need to be designing

more elegant solutions at work that are meeting

all of our needs rather than forcing them to compete with each other. Let's talk today about some

opportunities that I think are kind of right there for the grabbing. The first is prioritization

as both a breather and an impact driver. Most teams today are carrying the

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