{"id":1181,"date":"2007-09-13T07:44:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/sales-traits-series-conveying-role-value\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T07:44:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:44:11","slug":"sales-traits-series-conveying-role-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/sales-traits-series-conveying-role-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Conveying Role Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we focus on another important sales leadership trait.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve seen this trait firsthand have the effect of holding a sales team together during turbulent times.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff8000\">Conveying Role Value<\/font><\/strong><br \/>This ability draws upon a variety of traits (empathetic, interpersonal and leadership) to instill in an employee a sense of value for the task at hand. It is the ability to convey to another the value and importance that a given role carries with it. This is not a measurement of a person\u20ac\u2122s ability to understand a role\u20ac\u2122s value, but to communicate that value to another or group of others.<\/p>\n<p>A sales manager&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>strength<\/em> in this capacity will be able to effectively instill in an employee, or employees, a belief that what they are doing has value. They will be able to paint a clear picture of how and why that role is important\u20ac\u00a6to themselves, to the company or to others.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<em>weakness<\/em> in this area can be indicative of two things: Either the manager attempting to convey this value does not adequately appreciate the value in a role, or their ability to communicate ideas and concepts to others in such a way that they are perceived as valuable is lacking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we focus on another important sales leadership trait.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve seen this trait firsthand have the effect of holding a sales team together during turbulent times. Conveying Role ValueThis ability draws upon a variety of traits (empathetic, interpersonal and leadership) to instill in an employee a sense of value for the task at hand. It is the ability to convey to another the value and importance that a given role carries with it. This is not a measurement of a person\u20ac\u2122s ability to understand a role\u20ac\u2122s value, but to communicate that value to another or group of others. A sales manager&nbsp;with&nbsp;strength in this capacity will be able to effectively&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/09\/sales-traits-series-conveying-role-value\/\">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":[21,6,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-j3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"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! -->