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Modern Mentor

Modern Mentor

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Rachel Cooke is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to help you balance your work and personal life, effectively invest your time, and be mindful about where you’re devoting your energy. Let Rachel help you navigate your path to success—however you define it.

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Episodes
  • How to get your team working together again

    How to get your team working together again
    Oct 13 2026

    917. Lots of teams have quietly stopped being teams. They're capable people sprinting in their own directions, connected by a reporting line and little else. Rachel Cooke explains why that fragmentation is lonely for people and expensive for the organization, and offers four ways to put the team back together: a shared winning aspiration, forums for deciding together, smarter use of one-on-ones, and protected time to reconnect.


    Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!

    Find more from Rachel at LeadAboveNoise.com.

    Have a question for Modern Mentor? Email: modernmentor@quickanddirtytips.com

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    14 mins
  • Four questions to help your team get better at AI

    Four questions to help your team get better at AI
    Oct 6 2026

    916. Getting better at AI isn't a technology problem. It's a work design problem. Drawing on a corporate "digital transformation" that never quite landed, Rachel Cooke explains why skill without structure has nothing to hold onto. She then walks through four questions that build that structure: what you're trying to win, whether your tools and guardrails match your expectations, where AI belongs in your highest-value work, and how your team learns together while the technology keeps changing.


    Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!

    Find more from Rachel at LeadAboveNoise.com.

    Have a question for Modern Mentor? Email: modernmentor@quickanddirtytips.com

    Discover more from Modern Mentor!

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    Transcripts available on your podcast app or QuickandDirtyTips.com

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    11 mins
  • 5 questions to ask before asking more of your team

    5 questions to ask before asking more of your team
    Oct 1 2026

    915. Your team missed the deadline, and the reasons are starting to sound like excuses. The instinct is to push harder: tighter check-ins, a firmer performance conversation, more pressure applied in the same direction. But the fastest move and the most useful move are rarely the same one. In this episode, Rachel Cooke walks through five self-directed questions she uses with coaching clients whose teams have stalled, from "what if I'm wrong" to "can you define good" to "what distance have you already traveled."


    Modern Mentor is a Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast, hosted by Rachel Cooke!

    Find more from Rachel at LeadAboveNoise.com.

    Have a question for Modern Mentor? Email: modernmentor@quickanddirtytips.com

    Discover more from Modern Mentor!

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    Transcripts available on your podcast app or QuickandDirtyTips.com

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    14 mins
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