{"id":1233,"date":"2007-10-11T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/sales-traits-series-understanding-motivational-needs\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T08:53:40","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T13:53:40","slug":"sales-traits-series-understanding-motivational-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/sales-traits-series-understanding-motivational-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series-Understanding Motivational Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another sales management trait this week.&nbsp; Have you ever worked for a tyrant?&nbsp; Someone who had to have it his or her way only?&nbsp; Did you have to adjust completely to them?<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff8000\"><strong>Understanding Motivational Needs<\/strong><\/font><br \/>The ability to understand the needs and desires of employees enough that this knowledge may be used to motivate them to succeed. The ability to encourage a self-starting, active pursuit of goals and objectives.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<em>strength<\/em> in this area is indicative of&nbsp;a manager&nbsp;who understands that everyone is unique and motivated by different things. They value individual desires and take the time to get to know an individual&#8217;s specific motivators.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;manager with a&nbsp;<em>weakness<\/em> in this trait will tend to discount the importance an individual\u20ac\u2122s desires and needs play in managing or motivating that person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another sales management trait this week.&nbsp; Have you ever worked for a tyrant?&nbsp; Someone who had to have it his or her way only?&nbsp; Did you have to adjust completely to them? Understanding Motivational NeedsThe ability to understand the needs and desires of employees enough that this knowledge may be used to motivate them to succeed. The ability to encourage a self-starting, active pursuit of goals and objectives. A&nbsp;strength in this area is indicative of&nbsp;a manager&nbsp;who understands that everyone is unique and motivated by different things. They value individual desires and take the time to get to know an individual&#8217;s specific motivators. A&nbsp;manager with a&nbsp;weakness in this trait will tend&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/10\/sales-traits-series-understanding-motivational-needs\/\">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":[21,6,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-jT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"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! -->