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Nano Tips for Saying No at Work with Melody Wilding

Welcome to our Nano Tips series, where LinkedIn Learning creators deliver impactful lessons in literally seconds. In this installment, join professor, author, and executive coach Melody Wilding as she shares practical strategies and scripts for setting boundaries at work respectfully—and without feeling guilty. Melody offers tips for pushing back on unrealistic deadlines, declining meetings, and more. Learn how to pose questions to assess the urgency of requests, leverage the conditional yes technique, use the trade-off approach, present a positive no, defer requests, respond to pushback, and say no even if you work in an always-on environment. By the end of this course, you’ll also be prepared to avoid common mistakes such as overexplaining and undermining yourself when setting limits.

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