{"id":636,"date":"2007-02-06T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/how-to-recover-from-a-big-mistake\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T11:32:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T17:32:37","slug":"how-to-recover-from-a-big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/02\/how-to-recover-from-a-big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Recover From A Big Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Hot Jobs offers <a href=\"http:\/\/hotjobs.yahoo.com\/jobseeker\/tools\/ept\/careerArticlesPost.html?post=34\" target=\"_blank\">Bounce Back After A Big Mistake<\/a>. The article provides 6 steps for recovering from a significant error. This topic is of great importance in hiring strong salespeople. Sales requires people who have a unique ability to handle rejection and move on without flinching. Similarly, strong salespeople take responsibility for their actions, including failures. And let&#8217;s add one more &#8211; strong sales managers hold their salespeople accountable and do not accept excuses. You can see how interrelated all of these topics are to sales success.<\/p>\n<p>This article offers straight-forward advice for dealing with a big mistake. Here is the one that caught my attention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. Own it.<\/strong><br \/>\nWhile many of us would prefer to forget our mistakes, initially you need to acknowledge to your supervisor and everyone involved that you&#8217;re <strong>accepting responsibility<\/strong> for what went wrong. If you do this right (that is, seriously and sincerely), you&#8217;ll only have to do it once. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no more important advice than that &#8211; the first step is to take responsibility. We have encountered many salespeople who simply don&#8217;t. They possess a myriad of excuses and blatantly use them to provide cover for themselves. Don&#8217;t let them do this. A strong sales manager needs to put an end to excuse making and focus the salesperson on owning up to their personal responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 6 bulleted suggestions from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1. Own it.<br \/>\n2. Take the heat.<br \/>\n3. Don&#8217;t beat yourself up.<br \/>\n4. Learn from the past.<br \/>\n5. Keep it in perspective.<br \/>\n6. Move on.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll close with a good quote straight from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Failure is not in the falling down but in the staying down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Hot Jobs offers Bounce Back After A Big Mistake. The article provides 6 steps for recovering from a significant error. This topic is of great importance in hiring strong salespeople. Sales requires people who have a unique ability to handle rejection and move on without flinching. 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