{"id":487,"date":"2006-12-07T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=487"},"modified":"2006-12-07T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T20:00:29","slug":"sales-traits-series-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/sales-traits-series-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve defined <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=363\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Starting Ability<\/a> in a previous post &#8211; now let&#8217;s define a similar, but still different sales trait that is crucial in any role.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff8000\"><strong>Initiative<\/strong><\/font><br \/>\nThis ability directs ones energies toward the completion of a goal without an external catalyst. The ability to initiate actions based on ones own interpretation, or understanding, of a situation.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with <em>strength<\/em> in this capacity has the ability to take action as a result of his or her own decisions. They feel comfortable enough in their own abilities to act on their own decisions without consulting others. They will adapt to a dynamic situation and move around unforeseen obstacles without waiting for supervisory instruction.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with <em>weakness<\/em> in this area would indicate a person who is not comfortable enough in these abilities to act in the above manner. They may have difficulty beginning a project without direct supervision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve defined Self-Starting Ability in a previous post &#8211; now let&#8217;s define a similar, but still different sales trait that is crucial in any role. Initiative This ability directs ones energies toward the completion of a goal without an external catalyst. The ability to initiate actions based on ones own interpretation, or understanding, of a situation. A salesperson with strength in this capacity has the ability to take action as a result of his or her own decisions. They feel comfortable enough in their own abilities to act on their own decisions without consulting others. They will adapt to a dynamic situation and move around unforeseen obstacles without waiting for&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/sales-traits-series-initiative\/\">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-7R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"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! -->