do not disturb everyone's seen that
button before
could it be hurting you up next hey guys
ECR g back with another video today
we're gonna be talking about that Do Not
Disturb button that's probably on your
Instant Messenger and there are probably
people at the office that you know who
use that button way too much for on
their instant message capability so you
might have Microsoft Outlook it will be
Microsoft Lync that's what I'm most
familiar with but I'm sure every single
system out there if you're using Skype
or slack or some of the other ones out
there there's probably some button where
you can disable people from contacting
you and in spurts small capabilities
where you're like presenting your screen
or something to a group of people and
you don't want messages coming up and
interrupting your presentation perfect
usage of it even if you're really really
swamped for a small period of time like
an hour or two perfect usage of it but
if you're on Do Not Disturb
all day every day multiple hours at a
time
something is there's an issue there and
it could definitely be hurting you so
let me just outline some examples where
it could be hurting you your manager or
a colleague has a great opportunity for
you and they want to they're thinking
about some people they re gonna reach
out to some people they look on link
who's the first person we're gonna tell
not the person who's on do not disturb
because they're automatically harder to
get in contact with so they're gonna go
the path of least resistance they're
gonna tell the person who is the easiest
for them to get in contact with it could
be the person sitting next to them or it
could be the one of the people on their
instant message they're gonna tell about
it very quickly so that's just one
example if you're not convinced about it
yet just think about how it reflects to
your team that you are very hard to get
in contact
you know who wants to work with someone
who they can't ever talk to
communication is essential in all
business units and all types of
industries especially in clinical
research in clinical research we work
very remotely I remember my first year
in clinical research I worked with
nobody in my office everyone was either
Canada Europe Asia wherever so you have
to be available to communicate and if
you are distancing yourself in closing
yourself off the communication you are
hurting yourself and it may not show up
day one it may not show up week one but
over the course of a long relationship
and as you're building that relationship
with people and especially because even
even if you work with people in the
office you're still gonna be using
instant message in in email and all
these different things for for your
communication but over building that
relationship if people find it hard to
communicate with you or get in touch
with you that's just a bad sign and it's
gonna come back to hurt you
when it's time for reviews just in
passing people say like me and I could
never get in touch with that person or
you know your boss trying to get in
touch with you for something it's just
not a good look so you want to make sure
that you are available when you need to
be available like I said do not disturb
can be great for certain applications
when you're presenting to a group of
people giving a nice presentation or
some other ones you know you're hard at
work you don't want to be bothered
etc but if you're using it all day every
day
you're either there's either too much
work being put on your plate where you
don't have the ability to communicate or
the capacity to communicate or - you're
using it incorrectly and you are
shutting off yourself for further
advancement for further opportunities
and even for people to be critical of
you in order to get better at your work
because people we use communication not
just to deliver good news but also to
deliver bad news as well and you want to
make sure you're able to receive that
because it may be a problem to people
that they can't get in touch with you
and they don't feel close enough with
you to be able to tell you like hey I
need I need you to be more open to
communication so just want to share that
with you guys a lot of people have been
using do-not-disturb lately for wrong
things and especially if you're new to a
company or a place you don't want to
just be on Do Not Disturb all the time
because people are gonna reach out for
you reach out to you for various things
you know to introduce themselves first
and foremost to let you know about
certain things about the area about the
company about your role even and it's
just very important that you're open to
communication so Do Not Disturb really
has a way of closing yourself off to
other people and people do not want to
reach out to you if you're a constantly
on do not disturb so just something for
you guys to think about I know a lot of
people use it various reasons but try
and use it a little less even if you
feel like you need to be on to disturb a
lot of these platforms allow you to put
up a status I know in Microsoft Lync you
can put up a status saying like you know
whatever you're doing right then and I
feel like that's just as effective as I
do not disturb usually because people
can be like ok this person is doing this
let me not bother them let me wait until
later and you can put a time a time
there for ok I'm done at 1 p.m. with
this thing you guys can message me after
1 p.m. and that way you know especially
on Lync the Do Not Disturb feature is
just like a big red blob it's just like
a big ol like thing you can't miss is
like a big stop sign you do not want to
message that person and if you see that
on somebody's profile day in and day out
you're gonna start thinking negatively
about that person I promise you it
sounds ridiculous
but people people are definitely talking
about like man that person to just Hardy
and in touch with even if they're not
trying to get in touch with you but
there's gonna be thinking man that
person is hard to get in touch with just
just for that reason cuz you always got
that big ol do not disturb on so that's
it for today's video guys just wanted to
share that with you guys what do you
guys think about the do not just
feature a lot of people overusing it
where you work or is there another
feature like that comment that down
below I'm curious what you guys have to
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