How to tell your manager you can't take on more
When a manager keeps adding work, saying yes feels safe and saying no feels like a risk. A clear limit with a question attached is easier to hear than either.
Tonecraft lets you rehearse it first. Describe what keeps landing on you, choose gentle, direct or firm, and walk through six turns. At each turn you see three ways they might answer.
A way to open
I want to do this project well, and I can't take it on without dropping something else. Which of my current priorities should move?
Three ways they might answer. Each is plausible, not a prediction of what they will say.
Hears you out
Fair question. Let's go through your list together.
Pushes back
Everyone's stretched right now. I need you to find a way.
Brushes it off
I'm sure you'll manage. You always do.
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