From the course: Help Your Team Prioritize What Matters Most

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Guard your time

Guard your time

- Do you remember earlier in this course when you watched "Are You Creating Complexity"? How Steve Jobs would say no with purpose and yes with intention? Well, now I'm going to equip you and your teams with ways to say no that won't offend the person requesting your time. Prioritizing means guarding your valuable time and often that means saying no several times a day. Ready to capture these 15 responses verbatim? Feel free to press pause if needed. Okay, the first one is, I can't do it, but let me see if I can recommend someone else. Next, wish I could, but I'm just not taking on new projects right now. Another option is, sadly, I'm not able to assist this time. Or I'm afraid that I need to focus on X project right now. Here's another one. You're so kind to think of me, but I can't help this time. Option number six, unfortunately, my time is already spoken for. One of my personal favorites, if only I had a clone. Next,…

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