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Voice Mail Etiquette
By: Richard Lowe
I am a busy executive of a multi-billion dollar company. As such I am incredibly busy and must choose where focus my energy and efforts with great care. Thus, I am always looking for those things that steal time.
One of those time stealers is the phone. In fact, next to meetings and email, it is probably the worst time stealer of all. Phone tag is a complete waste of time, and I generally simply refuse to play the game at all.
Voice mails, like email messages, can be major time wasters. I know you`ve gotten at least once voice mail in your life that goes on and on, with the callers phone number mumbled at the end. You just wasted five or ten minutes!
So what I do is simple. Unless the voice mail message is from my boss or someone very important (like my wife), I will ignore it unless it follows most of the voice mail etiquette rules listed below.
Tell me who you are - I hate playing the guessing game. If you leave a message without leaving your name (first and last is best), then I`m not going to spend a lot of time trying to figure out who you are.
Leave contact information - Look, I`m pretty good at what I do but I don`t have every phone number in the world memorized. In fact, believe it or not, I may not have your phone number even listed in my address book. Even if I do, you`ve given me another reason not to call you back - you`ve annoyed me by forcing me to have to search around for your number. This wastes time, and unless your call is important to me you are probably not going to get a return call.
Be polite - Believe me, my day is hard enough without listening to a hostile voice message. You want to make I don`t call you back (unless you are the boss or the boss`s boss), then leave a very emotional message. You`d be amazed at how quickly I`ll delete those that are hostile or somehow upsetting.
Tell me what you want - I`m highly unlikely to call you back if you call out of the blue and leave a voicemail like 'this is Joe, call me'. Unless I already know what you want (or suddenly develop telepathy) I am not going to return your call.
Be brief - Don`t leave a fifteen minute message. I can guarantee you that unless you are....[MORE]
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