USE THE POWER OF DEADLINES

Hey! Are you afraid of being in a timeframe when you are assigned to complete a project? Some people might get pressure woking under a tough timeframe where they need to look at the clock to accomplish a project.

But, let's look at DEADLINE this way!

Deadline is a very powerful word when we put our request into a timeframe. If there is no pressing botton, we need to make up one.

For example, if you want to get a report from someone in your team, finish your request by asking, "And may I have this by the end our business day Thursday?"

By its term that you might find it from various dictionaries, a DEADLINE is described as a time by which something must be done; originally meaning and "a line that doesn't move,".

Literally, deadline is a line over which the person or project becomes dead! Deadlines propel action. So when you want to get people into action, give them a deadline.

If you make a request without including a date or time, then you don't have anything that you can hold the other person accountable for. You have a "wished for" and "hoped for" action hanging out there in space with no time involved. People are only motivated when we use both space and time. The space-time continuum is surely a motivator's best friend, and we can't miss it.

Once we were delightedly wating for your dream home to completed and the artchitect or technical team called back to you to impose a month-away deadline because they have to complete another more important project and/or because it is during a holiday season, you will get frustrated or disappointed waiting for another month to your dream home completed. Again, without a very clear deadline, there is no goal or accomplishment.

At work, let your people participate. It isn't a matter of who gets to set the deadline, it is a matter of having one. Either way, it is settled, clear, and complete.

Most managers don't do this. They have hundreds of unfulfilled requests floating around the workplace because they aren't prioritized. Those requests are getting put off.

DEADLINEs will fix all of those!

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