{"id":246,"date":"2008-04-16T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2015-06-10T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:37:27","slug":"identify-yourself-sooner-than-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/identify-yourself-sooner-than-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify Yourself Sooner Than Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">I recently received a phone call from a nice man looking at maybe doing a joint-venture and\/or sharing space for workshops and seminars. Although it was a pleasant-enough conversation I would like to remind him and everyone else out there that you <u>must<\/u> identify yourself at the <i>beginning<\/i> of your phone call! He confirmed who I was, and then immediately went into his pitch, or reason for calling. It was a little amusing to me at first, but finally after 5 minutes or more chatting I asked <strong><em>\u201cSo what is your name?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> To which he gave me only his <i>first<\/i> name. I then was forced to ask the second obvious question \u201c<strong><em>What organization do you represent?\u201d<\/em><\/strong> To which he gave me the name and website. So how do you think I felt about his credibility and\/or business experience?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;\">This little anecdote serves as a reminder to all of us to always, at the beginning, identify your name (<em>preferably full name with a pause in the middle between your first and last name<\/em>) and your title if relevant, and finally your company or organization. This sets the right tone for the conversation and avoids confusion. Besides, don\u2019t you <i>want<\/i> people to know who you are???<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a phone call from a nice man looking at maybe doing a joint-venture and\/or sharing space for workshops and seminars. Although it was a pleasant-enough conversation I would like to remind him and everyone else out there that you must identify yourself at the beginning of your phone call! He confirmed who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[533,534],"tags":[580,637,712,638],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interpersonal-communications","category-professional-communications","tag-business-english","tag-first-impressions","tag-speaking-strategies","tag-telephone-skills"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}