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How to use storytelling to influence and persuade
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Communicate Your Boundaries With Your Team
If you've been a 24/7 worker, you may need to reeducate your team and your supervisor about when you're available.
Say simply, “I won’t be available after 7 p.m., but will be able to get back to you first thing in the morning."
If you receive pushback, ask for specifics about why that's an issue.
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Take Advantage of Your "Golden Hours"
Golden hours are essentially our best times of day for deep thinking, creative thinking, and strategic thinking.
Don't let work eat up all those hours with administrative tasks or things that don't rise to the level of importance on that priority list above.
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Use Tech In Your Favor
- Snooze notifications from Slack and work emails when your workday is done, and don't accept work calls after a certain hour.
- Set up automatic responses to any communication to say when you'll be available next to respond.
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Unplug On Vacation
Vacation is supposed to be time away from work.
So make sure you get that.
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Why "Quiet Quitting" Is Happening
- The pandemic has been the catalyst for a lot of people to recognize what's most important in their lives.
- Returning to the office may have been the final straw for many workers-especially, as more surveys found that very few people want to stop working from home.
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Quiet Quitting
- People who continue to come to work every day and do their job, but maybe aren't going above and beyond-they're turning off notifications and not answering work emails at 10 p.m.
- Quiet quitting is simply people looking for a little more work-life balance, while actually putting in th...
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Get Your Supporters (And Your Portfolio) In Order
If your workplace isn't inspiring a lot of loyalty or engagement from you, it might be time to look for your next big thing-especially right now, when it's still a job seeker's market.
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Set boundaries
The only way to move away from languishing is to give yourself time and space to reflect.
We all need boundaries to give us time to think about where we are and where we want to be. Ask yourself where you feel resentment and frustration regarding your time and energy.
Wait before reacting
You’re not in a normal frame of mind when you’re angry. Your anger won’t make you want to resolve a problem; it’ll just make you want to lash out at somebody.
When you've calmed down, ask yourself if the issue is something that really needs to be addressed or if you just overreacted...
With People Outside Your Team
- Understand fully what your boss wants from you and your team so you'll be better able to meet with their approval.
- Ask your boss to coach or mentor you. You can usually learn a lot from him, but he may not be proactive about offering this. Think through things as far as...
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