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This Is The Best Form Of Respect You Can Give Anyone.

It is really very simple.

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Respect goes both ways. The funny thing is most people treat respect as a thing of the past. Not in my opinion. Respect is about making the opposite party comfortable with us, such that they will listen to us.

It’s what they want. It’s what we demand.

When I am out meeting clients, I realized that a hijack of attention is costly. We might be able to pin the loss of a contract to the potential value we could have received, and that’s not it. Our future relationship with the client may go down the drain.

In fact, how would we feel if we are the client and the person meeting us isn’t giving us their focus?

It boils down to unabated, absolute attention.

Some of my colleagues recommended to turn off all notifications so my smartphone can self-meditate instead of blipping non-stop.

It doesn’t work for me. I will forget to activate all notifications after client meetings. Plus, it is not feasible to rinse, wash, repeat this process when I meet more than 2 clients per day.

And I will definitely forget to reverse the notification mute.

I have a simple workaround for this. I flip my phone over.

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That way, I will not be distracted by the constant flashing on the screen. I don’t have to keep worrying about activating the notifications too.

Before this method, I used to switch my phone to the “airplane” mode. It worked beautifully until … I forgot to switch it back to normal mode.

In fact, all we have to do is to flip our phone over.

We will be able to give our client our undisrupted attention. This is the best form of respect we can give to our clients.

And anyone else.

A Day of Thinking,

Aldric

Related Stories from the Author.

About the Author:

As a content contributor, I write my observations from daily life and my business exposure.

Because our life experience is the bedrock of our unique perspectives.

As a Consultant by training, I believe in making the complex simple.

Because simplicity adds value.

And with clarity — We grow.

Follow me for my stories on Medium!

This is more “About Me”.

Do reach out and say hi on Linkedin!

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