Telephone can be a time waster
Telephone had been created for more than a century. In the beginning, it is a kind of luxury product. No everybody has the privilege to make use of it. However, we find telephone is now an essential product. We now have mobile phone which is a more advance version of telephone. It is now one of the most powerful tools in communication. However, we hardly notice that it can be obstacle to our success. It can threaten our time management system. In this article, we will talk about how the phone can be our problem and what to do to prevent that.In our every day life, we now over use the telephone. The telephone fee is getting cheaper and cheaper. We just feel to use it any time we want. The control of telephone usage will save us enormous time. We can achieve many more tasks in a day. Here are some methods to control your use of telephone at work to make your work more effective.
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1. Use the phone only for business. Limit the use for social talk.
We are used to use telephone as a tool to communicate with friends or with the opposite sex when we were young. We tend to relax and spend a lot of time for our social talk. But in business, this will be a waste of your time. You should limit your social talk on telephone as much as you can. Keep reminding yourself to use the phone only for business when you are at work. You will find that you have more time to efficiently manage your job.2. Find out who calls you and ask for the purpose as soon as possible.
If you have a secretary, let her screen your call by these two objectives first. If you have no secretary or assistant, do the same with short questions. You can judge how much time to spend with this person by the purpose of the call. You will save a lot of time to useless phone talk by this method.
3. Set up the time of the day to not taking any call.
You should reserve some time for your concentration of the task. You can unplug your phone. Turn off your mobile. Tell your assistant that you will not take any call. This will help you save a lot of interruption.
4. If you are not available, give the caller the call back time.
In order to prevent spending time chasing people back and forth, you should let the person who call you and you are not available the convenient time that you will call back to see if he is OK.
5. Write down the agenda of the call so that you can effectively communicate.
Threat the telephone call like business meeting. Write down the purpose of the call and list all the things that you would want to talk. This will be better and save time when you pick up the phone and forget why you are calling. Or you may talk about some issue and forget some other important points.
6. Take careful note of your call.
We can easily forget what we have just discussed on the phone. We should have some notebook beside the phone so that we can jot down the major issues that we discussed. This will save time to raise the issue up again when we do not have to.
Telephone can be a time waster if you do not use it properly. This article shows you the method of how to use the telephone more effectively.
Jim Somchai
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September 23rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hey Somchai,
Great Tips
For me, the first 2 points are the most useful
Cheers
James
September 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am
What a good post
I especially like items 3, 5 & 6:
Quiet time; Agenda & Notes