{"id":5,"date":"2005-10-26T16:50:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2007-02-21T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T07:52:36","slug":"i-feel-like-a-nag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/i-feel-like-a-nag\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel like a nag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q. Sometimes I feel as though no one does anything I ask until I nag them. I&#8217;m starting to feel like my mother must have. What can I do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>. Maybe they don&#8217;t understand why you want them to do the task you are assigning to them so they are focused on completing the tasks they think are more important.<\/p>\n<p>If you explain the purpose behind each of the tasks you assign you will see that people are much less resistant to doing them.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at my article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmgconsulting.com.au\/lw\/lw0502.htm\">The Leadership Power of Purpose<\/a> for more details of how this works plus some examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. Sometimes I feel as though no one does anything I ask until I nag them. I&#8217;m starting to feel like my mother must have. What can I do? A. Maybe they don&#8217;t understand why you want them to do the task you are assigning to them so they are focused on completing the tasks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}