{"id":1726,"date":"2008-09-05T08:10:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/lack-of-attention-to-detail\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T07:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T12:00:21","slug":"lack-of-attention-to-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/lack-of-attention-to-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack Of Attention To Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick wrote a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?s=%22sales+traits+series%22\">series on sales traits<\/a> last year\u00a0which transcends sales and applies to everyone.\u00a0 I was catching up on my RSS reader from the\u00a0Labor Day\u00a0weekend and came across this perfect example to illustrate the lack of <em>Attention to Detail<\/em>.\u00a0 According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/blogs\/the-inside-job\/2008\/9\/3\/staff-learns-of-layoffs-via-e-mail-mistake.html?s_cid=rss:the-inside-job:staff-learns-of-layoffs-via-e-mail-mistake\">this post from US News &amp; World Report<\/a>, employees of media agency Carat learned about a planned layoff by management through an email.\u00a0 Because someone did not have an abundance of the attention to detail trait, an email meant strictly for management accidentally\u00a0went out to everyone in the company.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we stress the use of assessments to\u00a0&#8220;x-ray&#8221; a person&#8217;s hidden abilities and talents, or lack thereof.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately these weaknesses often come to the surface in situations similar to the aforementioned example.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that the Carat executives\u00a0would like to have known\u00a0if this employee had a natural trait for attention to detail before handing this task off to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derrick wrote a series on sales traits last year\u00a0which transcends sales and applies to everyone.\u00a0 I was catching up on my RSS reader from the\u00a0Labor Day\u00a0weekend and came across this perfect example to illustrate the lack of Attention to Detail.\u00a0 According to this post from US News &amp; World Report, employees of media agency Carat learned about a planned layoff by management through an email.\u00a0 Because someone did not have an abundance of the attention to detail trait, an email meant strictly for management accidentally\u00a0went out to everyone in the company. This is why we stress the use of assessments to\u00a0&#8220;x-ray&#8221; a person&#8217;s hidden abilities and talents, or lack thereof.\u00a0\u00a0Unfortunately&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/09\/lack-of-attention-to-detail\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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],"tags":[995,1752,996],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-rQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726"}],"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! -->