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Today’s Faculty Factory Snippet is a conversation with Jennifer Haythornthwaite, PhD, about the art of prioritizing and saying no.
Dr. Haythornthwaite is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
I introduced this Faculty Factory “snippet” concept on last week’s podcast episode. The snippet episodes aim to deliver faculty development content to faculty members while on the go.
We encourage you to listen while commuting, exercising, or walking the dog; we hope this new feature of our podcast will be helpful to all.
Today’s discussion centered on prioritization techniques and strategies for saying no.
“Every time you say yes, you are saying no to something you’re already committed to, and every time you say no, you’re saying yes to something you’ve already committed to,” Dr. Haythornthwaite said.
New faculty members may be in a position where they are afraid to turn down new opportunities. They don’t want to be labeled as a person who always say no.
To deal with this dilemma, Dr. Haythornthwaite addresses this topic in today’s podcast. It’s an important podcast for those of us faculty who tend to be “people pleasers.”
Some resources we mention in this podcast, include:
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- James Clear (An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
- The Johns Hopkins University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
I highly recommend listening to the full episode embedded above, or by visiting our Faculty Factory podcast homepage.