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GREETINGS FROM TAHOE CALL CENTER!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rain or shine, short-staffed or no staff, we help keep your business going: Answering phones \/ taking messages \/ providing information \/ Taking credit card orders \/ collecting and transmitting confidential information via email, SMS, or API (linking with existing systems).  Our agents are trained to process sensitive information with courtesy, respect, and maintain the strictest of confidence.  We also help with those intermittent overflow call surges during business hours and cover your customer inquiries when you are closed.  \u201cAlways here so you don\u2019t have to be\u201d \u2013 We help keep things running smoothly 24\/7, 365 days a year.  <\/em>Tahoecall.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JULY 2022 Blog: 19<\/strong> – M. Hines<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We have some new neighbors. New is a \u2018relative\u2019 description.\u00a0 Living rural, anyone existing here for less than 10 years is \u2018new\u2019<\/em>, and anyone here, even for 20 years, is still \u2018newer\u2019<\/em> than those living here before them.\u00a0 This paradigm is not stagnant.\u00a0 It ebbs and flows like the tides. As one resident passes or moves away, history shifts and the least \u2018new\u2019<\/em> person becomes a method of measurement, a source of reference: \u201cRemember those people who used to live at the Smith\u2019s house?\u00a0 What was their name \u2026the ones that had 3 dogs?\u201d\u00a0 <\/em>The newly attritioned oracle would respond: \u201cYou\u2019re thinking of the Jones\u2019 house and those were the Parkers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out here, addresses are known by the names of the residents –not necessarily the current occupants but the original tenants. Residential history is often used as a navigation tool: \u2018Follow this road past the Smith\u2019s house and take a right by the Jones place; the Marley\u2019s will be just around the corner…\u201d (Just around the corner<\/em> is a relative term when you\u2019re traversing acreage). \u201cYou mean the Randall house down the lane?\u201d\u00a0<\/em> \u201cNo, they live there now, but the Smiths were there before them.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our valley, we accept these historic residents as authorities. They provide current and past information spiced with bits of unsolicited gossip. We accept what they say must<\/em> be true; after all, they\u2019ve lived here longer than anyone. As sole witnesses of our valley\u2019s past; it doesn\u2019t matter if memory doesn\u2019t serve them as well as they think. We acknowledge the details and topics of common discourse in our small existence aren\u2019t \u2018life and death\u2019. Still, this complete acceptance of information and opinion as fact got me thinking about how we as humans\u2014in a larger venue\u2014communicate, and, just what is it that makes us blindly accept and believe what others tell us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCOMMUNICATION IS ONLY 10% VERBAL\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A teacher ignited a class I took once with this revelation. I hadn\u2019t thought much about that statement until lately when Covid hit and mask-wearing reminded me how much we rely on facial expression to clarify and understand the intent of what is being said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Communication has many layers and applications. Over time, our minds develop tools to help process what we hear, see, and experience. \u00a0These tools and methods are not stagnant; they grow and adjust as we progress through life.\u00a0 Our techniques are unique to us; intrinsic and interwoven into our being. Akin to breathing–we\u2019re not always consciously aware of their existence. Yet they are constantly there; adjusting, accommodating, filtering and processing the relevance and significance of information we receive to determine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n