{"id":427,"date":"2006-11-07T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T21:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=427"},"modified":"2006-11-08T08:45:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:45:47","slug":"who-is-the-toughest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/who-is-the-toughest\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Toughest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent a recent Workforce Management newsletter it had quick article that caught my eye.  It was titled: <em>Who&#8217;s Tough and Who&#8217;s Not<\/em> (sorry no link available) and looks to see what is the toughest group in corporate America.<\/p>\n<p>PsyMax Solutions, a human capital assessment company in Cleveland conducted a survey and reached its conclusions after studying the responses of more than 2,000 employees.  It found that <strong>middle managers<\/strong> are the most resilient, are better able to accept criticism, manage stress and bounce back from frustration and disappointments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent a recent Workforce Management newsletter it had quick article that caught my eye. It was titled: Who&#8217;s Tough and Who&#8217;s Not (sorry no link available) and looks to see what is the toughest group in corporate America. PsyMax Solutions, a human capital assessment company in Cleveland conducted a survey and reached its conclusions after studying the responses of more than 2,000 employees. It found that middle managers are the most resilient, are better able to accept criticism, manage stress and bounce back from frustration and disappointments.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-6T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1461,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/03\/toughest-sales-objection-indifference\/","url_meta":{"origin":427,"position":0},"title":"Toughest Sales Objection &#8211; Indifference","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 11, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Clayton has a post on his Salesopedia blog that references some recent survey results from their highly-visited site.\u00a0 One result jumps off the screen: What\u2019s the toughest objection? 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