{"id":948,"date":"2007-05-24T07:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-conceptual-thinking\/"},"modified":"2010-07-02T05:56:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T10:56:32","slug":"sales-traits-series-conceptual-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-conceptual-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Conceptual Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complex selling requires salespeople to have a long-term perspective that they incorporate into their short-term tactics.\u00a0 This trait can be measured in\u00a0candidates and existing employees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff8000;\">Conceptual Thinking<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>The ability to identify and evaluate resources while planning for their utilization throughout the execution of comprehensive, long-range plans. This trait is much more abstract than <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/04\/sales-traits-series-concrete-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\">concrete organization<\/a>; it deals with the ability to allocate resources in a mental scenario and accurately visualize outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with\u00a0<em>strength<\/em> in this\u00a0trait can mentally role-play the execution of the long-range projection and make accurate predictions concerning the possible outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with\u00a0<em>weakness<\/em> in this\u00a0trait may have difficulty clearly seeing such a mental scenario, thus tending to have a shorter focus-level and require greater input for predictive decision-making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complex selling requires salespeople to have a long-term perspective that they incorporate into their short-term tactics.\u00a0 This trait can be measured in\u00a0candidates and existing employees. Conceptual Thinking The ability to identify and evaluate resources while planning for their utilization throughout the execution of comprehensive, long-range plans. This trait is much more abstract than concrete organization; it deals with the ability to allocate resources in a mental scenario and accurately visualize outcomes. A salesperson with\u00a0strength in this\u00a0trait can mentally role-play the execution of the long-range projection and make accurate predictions concerning the possible outcomes. A salesperson with\u00a0weakness in this\u00a0trait may have difficulty clearly seeing such a mental scenario, thus tending to&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-conceptual-thinking\/\">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-fi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948"}],"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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"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! -->