{"id":1020,"date":"2007-06-21T08:57:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-decision-making\/"},"modified":"2007-06-21T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:57:35","slug":"sales-traits-series-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we look at an insightful trait that has become more important for salespeople in today&#8217;s market.&nbsp; Sales requires a certain &#8220;feel&#8221; for a situation even though all of the data is not obvious.&nbsp; You could call this trait sales intuition.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff8000\"><strong>Decision Making<br \/><\/strong><\/font>The ability to accurately compile intuitive perceptions about a situation into a decision or action. This ability allows one to be \u20ac\u0153intuitional\u20ac\u009d as opposed to intellectual (requiring data and logical reasoning) in effective decision making. This capacity requires a good deal of understanding of people, the outside world and the ability to visualize the whole picture in a mental scenario.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with&nbsp;<em>strength<\/em> in this trait will be comfortable making decisions on their feet without having to study a situation or requiring logical data to examine.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<em>weakness<\/em> in this trait indicates a salesperson who is not comfortable making decisions until he\/she has had sufficient time and information to analyze a situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we look at an insightful trait that has become more important for salespeople in today&#8217;s market.&nbsp; Sales requires a certain &#8220;feel&#8221; for a situation even though all of the data is not obvious.&nbsp; You could call this trait sales intuition. Decision MakingThe ability to accurately compile intuitive perceptions about a situation into a decision or action. This ability allows one to be \u20ac\u0153intuitional\u20ac\u009d as opposed to intellectual (requiring data and logical reasoning) in effective decision making. This capacity requires a good deal of understanding of people, the outside world and the ability to visualize the whole picture in a mental scenario. A salesperson with&nbsp;strength in this trait will&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-decision-making\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,6,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-gs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->