Professional Texting

In businesses, there are many ways to communicate with your employees and coworkers such as using internet phones, emails, and leaving voicemails. What about texting? Does it seem to be unprofessional? We use texting much more widely but business professionals are still not jumping on the wagon of sending texts for work. What happened to the phone call? You would think that would be the first choice in order to get things done quickly but these days it is a second option to writing text. But, just like email, any sort of text does not include tone and messages can be easily misunderstood. I think it all comes down to being more permissive, flexible and allowing people to Band-Aid their fear of rejection. If we text or email someone, we can re-read it 15 times before sending until it’s just the way we like it. If we interact on the phone, we don’t know what can be thrown at us and how we will react.