Instead of giving a deadline, give them a date for the next “Status” meeting.

Say it is a Wednesday morning, instead of saying, it will take me two day, say let’s have a Status meeting on Friday at 4 pm. At the status meeting, you might say that you expected to be done by then, but…

Deadlines are a thing, a form of control, of force. Status meetings is a form of communication that works in a Radical system where force does not have a place.