Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Eric Deeran advising business communicators to avoid signaling lower status in calls. Key points: be direct and authoritative, avoid overly thankful/over-eager openings that imply your time is less valuable, and use concise, confident phrasing (e.g., "we're both busy, let's jump right in").
And then the only other thing I would really nitpick with you is, like, like, with tonality. Because you're going to run into, like, these guys. Not all of them have big egos, but a lot of them have, like, a little bit of, like, an air about them or, like, get to the point kind of thing. You have to, like. I would just speak in a way where we're, like, very direct and have authority. It's like, okay, got it. Makes sense. Okay. Like, just make sure you're leading there. And then the other thing, just be careful about status frame in the beginning when you're like, I really appreciate you hopping on. Yeah. So you want to be careful with that, because then it makes your time not seem as valuable as their time, where I would just be like, hey, what's up, Steven? Hey, how's it going? Yeah, I know we're. We're both busy here, so, you know, let's just jump right in, if that's okay with you. Cool. Yeah. Awesome. Like, I wouldn't be like, thank you so much for taking time. It's like, I know that's polite, but in the business world, it's just, like, people look down on it because then it's. It's almost like, overeager. You need to be like, I'm super busy. I have a lot of other projects I'm working on. And you don't need to be a jerk, but you also need to, like, have that air about you where it's like, oh, this guy respects his time.
