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What to do when someone is multitasking on you

What to do when someone is multitasking on you

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What to do when someone is multitasking on you

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- If you've been through my Time Management Fundamentals course or read my books, you'll know I firmly believe that multitasking is one of the biggest thieves of time in any day. It causes delays, it leads to more mistakes, it increases your stress levels, and when you do it to human beings, it communicates to them that they're unimportant. Hopefully, if you're watching this, you already believe in this and try to reduce multitasking in your day, but what do you do when someone else is multitasking on you? You're trying to have an important conversation with them and they're playing with their phone, or they're trying to answer their email, shuffle through their papers, or some other task. How do you handle that? First, make sure you are setting a positive example. You're not going to make much of an impact on someone else's multitasking behavior, if you do the same thing to them. In fact, I would emphasize that you…

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