{"id":342,"date":"2018-08-03T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidschwab.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:01:17","slug":"verbal-skills-via-skype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidschwab.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/03\/verbal-skills-via-skype\/","title":{"rendered":"Beam Me Up, Scotty"},"content":{"rendered":"

When “Star Trek” premiered in the U.S. in 1966, the cost of a three-minute international phone call was about $12, which, adjusted for inflation, is $92 today.<\/p>\n

Even in the 1980\u2019s, when I was in graduate school, calling overseas was anything but cheap.\u00a0 I remember being in a hotel in Luxembourg as part of a work assignment for a bookseller and wanting to call home.\u00a0 The telephone table in the room was equipped with something akin to a taxi meter.\u00a0 When my overseas call to the U.S. was connected, the meter started clicking and turning.\u00a0 As the contraption shook, pens danced off the edge of the table.<\/p>\n

The charges were calculated not in currency but in some unknown message units that started at 10,000.\u00a0 Every few seconds, the counter in the vibrating table would turn in increments of 2,500.\u00a0 After about two minutes, I had spent over 30,000 of these units, and I quickly ended my call.\u00a0 My employer paid the bill.\u00a0 I never learned exactly how much I had spent, but my boss made it clear that I was not to make any more calls during that trip.<\/p>\n

I still\u00a0 travel frequently for my speaking and consulting business, but I also take advantage of video conferencing.\u00a0 There are platforms for webinars, which I have used very successfully, but I also really enjoy \u201cvirtual meetings\u201d courtesy of services such as Skype.<\/p>\n

In fact, when I train dental teams to use the best verbal skills, I often \u201cbeam in\u201d to offices across North America via Skype.\u00a0 When participants are able to see and hear each other, we come very close to the experience of being in the same room.\u00a0 I marvel at the technology that allows me to be (virtually) in Texas at 2:00 p.m. and California at 3:00 p.m., which does not cost a penny more than what all of us pay anyway for our Internet connections.<\/p>\n

During these sessions we cover verbal skills and other issues that come up in practices every day.\u00a0 \u00a0If you would like valuable team training with zero travel cost, contact me for more information and we will make it so: dschwabphd@me.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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