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Getting a Grip on Your Telephone Usage

By Jack Spencer

It is amazing whenever you stop and think about just how much the telephone has entered into our lives in recent years. It has enhanced it in many ways but unfortunately, it has also hampered it in a number of different ways as well. The telephone is something that interrupts us on a regular basis and it tends to dictate whatever we are doing at the moment when it does so. If you would like to get control over this area of your life, here are some ways for you to be able to do it.

If there is one thing that you need to get used to when it comes to the telephone, it's the fact that you are in control of the phone, the phone is not in control of you. The unfortunate thing is that all of us tend to pick up the phone whenever it rings, a response like Pavlov's dogs and this is a very controlling thing that takes place.

The simple fact of the matter is, it is your arm and your finger. The telephone does not need to control this part of your body and you need to learn how to not answer the phone, simply because it is ringing. Once you are able to master this simple task of allowing the telephone to go to voicemail, you will be taking a step into a larger world. It is a liberating, and it frees up much of our time which is used talking when it could be used for other things.

When you are on the telephone, you should make sure that that is all that you are doing at that time. Most of us think that we are great multitaskers and we could try to do a number of different things at the same time, even whenever we are on the telephone. Believe it or not, very few people were able to multitask effectively so give the telephone the attention that it deserves whenever you're on it.

Another way for you to use the telephone effectively is to keep in mind that people enjoy talking about themselves. Don't try to dominate the conversation but give them the opportunity to talk every once in a while. It's a great way for you to be considered as a good listener, and people will walk away from the telephone with a more pleasant feeling about you and the conversation that you just hand.

Many of us have to use the telephone regularly in a work environment and it is necessary for us to do so effectively. One of the ways that you can really use the telephone to your advantage is whenever you are leaving a voicemail for somebody. Instead of just leaving a simple name and number, why not think of it as an opportunity to give yourself a pitch of some sort or another. Don't try to sell them in 30 seconds, but warm them up to the opportunity of a sale when they call back to you.

The telephone can either be a great tool for us to use or it can end up being a noose around our necks. Make sure that you use it as it is intended and this piece of technology will be a benefit that will work well for you.

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