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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is that when you would like to take

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Speaker 1: the lead on a project, ask you can request control,

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Speaker 1: making the transfer of power explicit or at least letting

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Speaker 1: people know that you want to help. Today's tip comes

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Speaker 1: from an unexpected source, the video conferencing function of Microsoft Teams. Well,

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Speaker 1: the tips sort of comes from teams. When you are

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Speaker 1: on a team's video call, there is a button labeled

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Speaker 1: request control. This lets any user request control of a

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Speaker 1: shared screen. If the person who screen is shared grants control,

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Speaker 1: then the person who re quested control can navigate on

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Speaker 1: the page or highlight something for other people to see.

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Speaker 1: It is a helpful feature for making collaboration possible. So

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Speaker 1: I have to say there is something about the existence

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Speaker 1: of a request control button that always makes me smile.

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Speaker 1: It seems a little dramatic to request control when what

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Speaker 1: you want to do is scroll on someone else's screen.

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Speaker 1: It's like we're a co pilot taking over the mission,

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Speaker 1: or a lieutenant filling in when the commanding officer falls.

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Speaker 1: But I do think the button gets at an important point.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it can be helpful to shift who is in charge,

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Speaker 1: and when that is the case, it can be wise

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Speaker 1: to request control explicitly, rather than pushing into someone else's

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Speaker 1: role or just wishing things were going differently. So for instance,

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Speaker 1: if your spouse intended to plan your spring break, but

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Speaker 1: as having a busy season at work and doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: to be making any progress, you could ask him or

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Speaker 1: her whether it would be helpful for you to take over.

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Speaker 1: If you are part of a project at work that

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Speaker 1: no one else seems to have time for but that

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Speaker 1: you are actually excited about, you could ask your boss

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Speaker 1: if it would be helpful for you to take on

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Speaker 1: more leadership. If your painters didn't do a great job

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Speaker 1: or making things worse in the process of touch ups,

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Speaker 1: you can thank them and pay them for what they did,

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Speaker 1: and then let them know that you will take it

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Speaker 1: from there. When you want to take on more responsibility

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Speaker 1: for a project and you explicitly offer to do so

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Speaker 1: or ask for that opportunity, people may appreciate your initiative.

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Speaker 1: They may feel relieved to be able to shift leadership

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Speaker 1: to you. Other times, though your offer may be declined.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing about requesting control, not demanding control, your

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Speaker 1: spouse may actually be looking forward to play ing the

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Speaker 1: holiday travel is a change of pace from the work project,

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Speaker 1: or you may find out he's already made more progress

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Speaker 1: than you thought. Requesting control doesn't mean you will be

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Speaker 1: given control, so you need to be prepared for that.

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Speaker 1: But if the request is declined, you have made it

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Speaker 1: clear to the other person that you are interested and

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Speaker 1: available in and of itself. That can often nudge things along. Two.

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Speaker 1: If you try requesting control, you can let me know

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Speaker 1: how it goes at Laura at Laura Vanderkamp dot com.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and

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Speaker 1: here's to making the most of our time. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: I'd love to hear from it. You can send me

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Speaker 1: your tips, your questions, or anything else. Just connect with

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Speaker 1: That's b E the number four then Breakfast p o D.

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