How to make
others think that you care about their time and you are willing to go extra to
help them to save their precious time? One of my colleagues, let’s call him T,
whenever he wants to ask somebody a question or say something, he starts his
question with something like “Hello, Joey, do you have a minute? I would like
to update you about XXX” or “Hi. Are you free now? I would like to disturb you
with some questions about XXX” Very usually, he gets what he wants at the first
attempt.
I am not an opportunist that is good at manipulating people in order
to stand out and gain personal attention from the bosses but I really like the
way T approaches people as very often people in the office are too busy with
their own stuff that they cannot spare even a minute to do other things and by
starting a conversation with such opening lines, actually he tries to convey a
message that he really cares about somebody’s time and indirectly, he find
himself the best timing to communicate with people. Asking a favor at an
inappropriate timing is likely to be turned down and so do good suggestion at
wrong timing. The keyword here is “Timing”.
Perhaps, for
me, this is one of the must-learn communication skills in order to survive or
possibly, prosper in this office jungle. I believe nothing could ever go wrong
with it. To make myself more confident and to brush up my communication skills,
I would like to make it a rule and a self-punishable crime when the first
sentence that comes out from my mouth every time I start talking to someone is
not something similar to T. I hope that with this skill, the listener and
whoever I would like to talk to can feel that his or her time really matters to
me. And thus, he or she is more willing to discuss something with me, answer my
questions and most important, do me a small favor. Haha.
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