How to overcome phone shyness..

Practice. Folks with phone shyness are often given the advice to get a job where they’ll have to make a lot of phone calls; regular practice in this capacity, it’s figured, will assuredly break down the person’s phone phobia over time. It may work, but I’ve known two phone-shy people who got jobs that required extensive phone conversations, and while they didn’t have a problem making calls on the job, it didn’t help them feel any more comfortable making calls outside their cubicle. The reason for this is that the role offered by a job gives you some distance from yourself; it’s almost like someone else is making the calls, so you don’t feel as nervous.