Episode 64. The Power Of Saying No: How It Can Help Put You In Charge Of Your Life And Career – Professor Vanessa Patrick

<p>Want to understand why saying no is so hard and how it can help free up time to focus on the things that really matter to you? Professor Vanessa Patrick and I discussed this, her new book “The Power Of Saying No” and much more on Episode 64 of the Reframe &amp; Reset Your Career podcast.</p> <p>In this episode, we will learn about:</p> <p>The importance of personal branding and sharing information that is of value for your audience,</p> <p>Why it’s so hard to say no,</p> <p>What is an empowered refusal?,</p> <p>How can you say no to your boss,</p> <p>The A.R.T. framework of saying no,</p> <p>What is a personal policy and how it helps you to say no,</p> <p>Think of saying no as a way of allowing you to spend your time the way you want rather than being dictated by someone else,</p> <p>A matrix to help work out which asks you should accept or refuse through assessing their relative benefits and costs,</p> <p>How to say no to “office housework” and other non promotable tasks, and</p> <p>Ways of dealing with “walnuts”, people who don’t take no for an answer.</p> <p>Vanessa Patrick, PhD. is the Associate Dean for Research, Executive Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD and DBA), a Bauer Professor of Marketing and lead faculty of the Executive Women in Leadership Program at the Bauer School of Business at the University of Houston.</p> <p>She has been recognized with a number of awards for both scholarship and teaching, including the LeRoy and Lucille Melcher Faculty Excellence award from the Bauer College of Business for Research Excellence (2011), Service Excellence (2016) and Teaching Excellence (2018). In 2012, she was named one of the top 50 most productive marketing scholars worldwide by the DocSig of the American Marketing Association. She was appointed as a Fulbright Specialist (2019-24) by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. She served in this role by visiting the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia in November 2022.</p> <p>She is a regular speaker at both academic and