2.10.3       Saving time in calls

    Telephone calls sometimes disturb at the most inappropriate moments and, as a rule, when you must concentrate on a specific job. After a call it is difficult to come back to the work.

• If your job permits, plan several hours a day (they may not be several consecutive hours) when you switch off the phone, transfer your calls, or do not respond. During that time you will concentrate on the specific job. (Otherwise, when to concentrate on a specific job??? Yes, after 6 p.m., when everybody has left and you can work.)
• Talk while standing to make a conversation shorter.
• Call yourself; do not wait for a call. Even if you pay for a call, you concentrate when you call and avoid being disturbed when concentrating yourself, so the expenses will be justified.
• Plan your calls so that you make several consecutive calls instead of switching constantly between calls and work.