Jefferson Fisher

You're gonna find something else.

And they have to kind of immediately as any business owner or leader or manager, they start doing the numbers in their head of, oh, okay, well, if I don't give them,

exactly what they want.

Money-wise, I don't know if we can afford it.

We gotta look at the books.

I don't know, do I need to hire somebody else who could also do it cheaper?

And they start seeing you as a commodity and as a product and as a cog, not as Jimmy, the human, the PA who's amazing at his job.

You get what I mean?

Rather than thinking you need to have a conversation right now, what I would encourage you is to use this phrase, add on to it.

This is a conversation I'd like to have with you over the next few weeks.

You see how you've immediately lifted the burden of now?

I do think you need to put a deadline on it.

But when you're able to kind of expand and say, hey, I'd like to have this conversation with you this month before the end of this month or over the next few weeks, you're signaling that this is something that we're continuing to invest in.

So let's talk about it for a little bit.

Go back to the drawing board.

Let's talk about it.

You wanted this to be a collaborative thing.

This is not a demand thing.

This is something that you want to work on together.

And that's very different.