Comments on: Episode 105: “Did I Miss the Memo?”

By: Jaime Rocha

Jaime Rocha — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:32:16 +0000

On the other hand, I got a confirmation email from my 11:00am One-on-One appointment this morning.

Good thing she did, because she had my old address in her contact list for me. She would have been 33 miles away if we hadn’t confirmed.

Lesson learned: “Let’s meet at your office” may not be the clearest instruction.

By: Cys Bronner

Cys Bronner — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:17:04 +0000

I have come back to this podcast numerous times, simply because I think I missed the memo!

I would like to add that ages ago, in college, my business instructor taught us to call to confirm about 2 hours before an interview, asking if it is still a good time. It allows us to appear a little more professional and know that we have lessened the chance of sitting and waiting. I still use that method, but am always stunned by the amount of surprised professionals who have “blanked” on the appointment.

By: Dermot Ferguson

Dermot Ferguson — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:05:02 +0000

An excellent subject to highlight. Due to a couple of experiences I am never sure if an appointment is still on unless its confirmed the day before. Shouldn’t really be necessary but there have been several occasions where when I went to confirm the meeting/appointment, it was obvious that the other party had forgotten about it, so ringing to confirm saved me a lot of wasted time.
However, I agree, once made the appointment should stand.
My Friday BNI is not an appointment, it’s simply set in stone.

By: Barbara Boone

Barbara Boone — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:41:55 +0000

I agree with Dr. Misner’s reaction to this phenomenon of consider that if I set an appointment with someone, then it is firm unless I call and change it. I think that it has grown out of the fact that we are all so busy and that we forget all the details and need so many reminders to complete our tasks. My friends are always complaining about forgetting things. It is sad that we need to have someone call us to remind us about a doctor or spa appointment. We have created a society that now knows they don’t have to remember or keep track of things because someone will remind us.

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By: Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:44:24 +0000

I love it. I do get a call from my hair stylist and doctor for my visits, but I haven’t noticed this happening in the BNI meetings and appointments with fellow BNI members yet…. I hope it doesn’t get to that, I don’t have time to babysit everyone else…

By: Angelina Campos

Angelina Campos — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:43:20 +0000

After waiting an hour for an appointment to show up I finally reached him by phone and he said he thought that we weren’t meeting because he didn’t hear from me after his confirmation email. I asked him why he felt that I had to reconfirm his confirmation to my confirmation to his request of a meeting?!?!

Thank you for standing up for commitment and sharing it in the podcast.