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Scenario

How teams can address leadership that overuses urgent requests

Our project team keeps getting emergency requests from leadership that turn out to be things that could have waited weeks, but we've trained ourselves to drop everything every time someone says 'urgent' in an email. I want to push back but I'm afraid of looking unresponsive, and I think everyone else feels the same way.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The group has become conditioned to react to urgency language rather than evaluate actual time constraints.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Urgency — manufactured and real?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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