Geschreven door Marijn de Geus | February 21, 2012
A new phone, a new job or a traffic jam. All of these can trigger you to record a new message for your voicemail. You record your message and choose 'listen to your message'. Usually, you are not satisfied with the first result and try again. This is a fun example of how a confrontation with yourself (your own text or voice) triggers an automatic process of improvement and refinement.
Training with webcam interaction exercises, as you do in TrainTool, is exactly about this process. Participants give a response (to a client, boss etc.) and see themselves. Almost nobody is immediately satisfied with their first performance. He or she will automatically start thinking about ways to improve it and start reading the tips in the sideline. Then they try again and quickly make big steps. Only when satisified, they send their response to a trainer. Our statistics tell us that people record themselves 4,2 times on average before sending it in.
Sending in your response is a powerful motivator. The tension you feel because you eventually have to make your voicemail message public, is similar to the urge you feel to show your trainer and peers a good performance of your (soft) skills.
