The balance of a phone call

I also talked about a certain sort of balance in the call. And I follow through with phonetics, that simple form of micro expression reading, you can usually read somebody’s body language. So since we don’t have the luxury of sight here, I decided that our other senses should be expanded. I believe that we should expand our rhetoric regarding our descriptions. And I also think our hearing should be expanded five times.

On the phone, you can’t taste, touch or smell. So once again, you’re in a controlled environment, it should be expanded, you just know how to tap into it. So this is the code that I think I cracked after 21 years in this industry. I have a phonetic lesson that I would like to share with you, one that can be manipulated, but then I have the ultimate lesson that I think is indisputable.

Phonetics: tone, rate, pitch, duration

Let’s begin with phonetics. The first four sections of phonetics are tone, rate, pitch, and duration.

The tone represents your emotion. In my opinion, it should always be confident and empathetic, like a doctor, like a lawyer or your caring parent that will tell you that everything is going to be okay. In focus groups studies, you need a consistent variable to see inconsistencies, I believe that your tone should always be confident and empathetic. You should match the client when they’re like that, but don’t match them if they’re in a bad mood, they’re angry or pessimistic.

Now here’s the part where you’d be able to mirror image your client I believe. And I brought some props to a party like this, my third grade teacher be proud, I gave you a simple XY chart, because this is how we’re going to be working here.

Your pitch here represent your speaking level. And you could be screaming at me, you could be whispering. Your rate here is how fast you speak and how slow you speak. And you can generally, it’s like eighth grade pre-algebra.

You can control your tone, you can control your pitch and your rate of speech. The one thing I believe subconsciously that you cannot control consistently is your answering speed.

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