Continuing from last week's post of listening to what people are really saying, I actually noticed how I interacted with people.
In my business, I'm always working with people and what I've noticed is that in working with people, there are some people who don't return my phone calls and emails or they just say no to everything I ask of them. As time goes on, my willingness to call them again or ask them to do something again diminishes and I'm left doing the work myself or frustrated because I haven't received a follow up. I'm making it mean that these people are people I don't want to interact with or they really don't want to work with me. In the end, I'm resentful of them, frustrated and nothing gets accomplished.
But what if that's not the case. What if they legitimately forgot, something happened or they really are busy? What if I gave up the idea that they don't want to work with me and gave it a whole new meaning? After all, I do forget things that I don't write down. I am also guilty of not returning emails for weeks at a time because my email blows up and the email gets lost. And we did just have a holiday weekend!
So I'm going to try that. I'm going to continue to call them, email them and ask them. It only really takes a minute or less out of my day, whereas the resentment and the emotion of making them wrong takes a lot longer. Try it and let me know what happens!
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Hey there! Love the idea behind your blog. Communication is hard. I find that especially when they are longer/more emotional emails and phone calls, they get put off because it's not a 5 line response thing. It's hard to emotionally engage with friends/family sometimes in short bursts. Something I'm working on.
P.S. I'm johnston alum '08. I started the thread about jc blogs. :) thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for checking it out and leaving a comment! Yes, I find that to be the case too - creating relationships w/ technology these days!
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