Yet, I am afraid to say that making a phone call is considered an aggressive move these days. In all probability, you have written your landlord an email which contains three paragraphs of some explanation to him. Yes, yes, but using Slack and iMessage negatively affects your performance at work.
First of all, the ringtone always causes the fight-or-flight response. You consider your phone to be the thing that has a camera and many different applications in addition to it. But here is the point: texting consumes much more time. Actually, you may shrink your forty-five minutes long email thread into a five-minute conversation.
Texting does not allow you to solve any business-related problem because it lacks the necessary nuances. How can you emphasize the importance of something or express sarcasm using fonts? No, you miss your chance to judge about a person by his or her pause during the talk.
Think about yourself when you are planning a party with your friends. When there appear three changes concerning a restaurant reservation, you call all your friends and explain everything. But why are you shy to use the phone when you deal with money? It seems quite odd to me to spend your life waiting for the reply in chats when you may sort the things out in a few minutes.
The most important thing is the preparation. You should not cold call someone without your notes about the points you are going to mention during the talk. That would be rude and scary. So, just write down three points before the call and you will not get off the track.
It may significantly improve your performance. You will not wait for the answer from someone which will never come. You make a decision and it feels good. You learn to be a decision-maker instead of waiting for some decision to be made.
And people remember the voice of a person rather than his or her avatar. You create a real connection between you and this person by talking. It is easier to remember the person who made a joke to you during the phone call. This method may be helpful in the future when you need to obtain some information or a favor from someone.
So, try to make one call today. Take your phone and start talking. Maybe, you will surprise yourself with what you may do with a phone call. In case of some troubles, just hang up and say that you have bad signal.