What's The Impact Of You Not Showing Up?
Have you ever had that hunch or feeling about someone?
You know, that feeling in your gut that something just isn’t right?
Sometimes that happens when you make appointments with people.
Let me explain.
For example: You know, you're exchanging emails with someone and you agreed to a meeting for 10am on a Tuesday.
And there were a total of 4 parties involved in this meeting.
2 out of 4 showed.
IT'S SO FRUSTRATING!
Then one attempts to show up 30 mins after the meeting started, but you've already moved on by that point.
And the other party never showed, never emailed, never called, nothing!
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You have no idea what’s going on in this person’s life. There could be something very traumatic that has greatly impacted their ability to physically appear on the Zoom call, or it could have just been a calendar issue.
In all my years of networking, one thing I’ve seen hold very true to course.
Those that show up late, are late for everything. Those that miss meetings and events, miss meetings and events all the time.
ENOUGH ALREADY.
YOUR TIME is NOT more valuable than mine or anyone else that showed up on time to the meeting.
It’s rude, inconsiderate, and incredibly hurts your ability to get referrals.
Much needs to be done at this point for me to ever build enough trust in this person so that I would refer them. Furthermore, I’m not willing to put in my valuable time to try to make that work! There are so many more people in this world that will respect my time and as such deserve my time.
Trust is build over a long period of time. It’s like a bank account, you put small deposits in on a regular basis and that allows you to build up a small savings account that you can pull on when you need to. If you go into the negative early on, you’ve got bank and overdraft fees that makes it much harder to get back to positive.
Don’t start your relationships off with a negative trust account.
So make sure you build your trust bank account, by turning up when you say you will, if you want to build better relationships for the long term benefit.
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3yExcellent post, Ian! Time is a valuable commodity, especially in this climate. Great ending line regarding starting a relationship with a negative trust account. Whether in person or virtual!
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3yI totally agree Ian! Showing up late is disrespectful to another person's time. It's also a reflection of how people view in value their own time.
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3yIf you don't want to be late-Be Early! Above all always be considerate and respectful of everybody's time ! Great article Thank you!!
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3yGreat information to share Ian. I just had this happen to me we set up a time confirmed time. No show or no call. I did then call to say hey I know things happen just checking to make sure all is okay. I would have though I would get a call or follow up but nothing. How do you handle that? I just moved was surprised though after confirming.
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3yIan Kingwill, have often had a bad feeling about a meeting, and I was usually right. I used to give people the benefit of the doubt more often than I do now. I give many more reminders these days, and I know turning up when you say you will build good relationships.