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By Staff Report
Mar. 3, 1999
Here’s a tip on the best way to set deadlines … don’t!
The most effective deadlines are the ones you don’t set for your staff. Employees usually resent the mandates, and become even more stressed than they already are. The best thing to do is explain the time constraints the organization is operating under, and give your staff responsibility for setting its own deadlines.
People will set deadlines for themselves and be more likely to live up to them.
SOURCE: Positive Leadership, newsletter, February 1999, Ragan Communications, Chicago, IL.
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