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With your host, Pete McKitis. Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 162 with Chris Croft.

Chris comes from the UK and he brings a whole lot of wisdom and perspective with his numerous

training programs and audiences that he's worked with over time.

So you're going to learn one, how to identify squeezable tasks,

two, a four-step process to saying no and negotiating and three optimal systems for

organizing the stuff of work and life. So if you like to check out the show notes or

the transcript or the links to items that we reference here. It's over at

awesome at your job.com slash eep one six two and why you're over at awesome at your

job dot com I recommend you check out some of our cool stuff one of those cool things

is the 10 days to winning at work email course, which offers

tips, tools, and tactics to help you slash through waste in your work week and get more time

for strategic thinking or just getting home early.

And that's over at awesimate your job.com as well as just the magnifying glass which

let you search the transcripts of all 162 episodes. I think that's so huge

and powerful. There's any kind of

challenge you're facing. You might very well be able to click that magnifying

glass and find what you need. And if you don't, go on over to the contact page and

say, hey Pete, it doesn't look like you got an episode about this thing I'd love to know about and then all see if you can go get that made.

But for now here's a quick bit about Chris. Chris Croft has an engineering degree from Cambridge and an MBA, worked as a senior manager

in manufacturing for 10 years, and then as a university lecturer for five years before starting

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