Questions to Ask Yourself Before Marking Your Request ‘Urgent’

Your colleagues will thank you (and so will your career)

Teresa Douglas
Forge
Published in
4 min readJan 17, 2020

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A young business woman looks anxious as her coworkers surround her desk demanding things of her.
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Co-authored with Holly Gordon and Mike Webber

YYour work doesn’t exist in a vacuum: At some point over the course of your workweek, you’ll need something from someone, or someone will need something from you. Sometimes the request is easy…

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Teresa Douglas
Forge
Writer for

Mexican Yankee in Canada. Remote work speaker, manager. teresamdouglas.com. Book: Working Remotely: Secrets to Success for Employees on Distributed Teams