{"id":929,"date":"2007-05-17T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T12:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-intuitive-decision-making\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T12:01:09","slug":"sales-traits-series-intuitive-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-intuitive-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Intuitive Decision Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, we&#8217;ll approach this week&#8217;s trait cautiously since it approaches some forms of gut-level decision-making.  Strong selling requires salespeople who do not guess or assume.  Rather, they qualify by asking the right questions and listening to the answers.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s face it, there is a bit of artistry to being a good salesperson.  Much of that artistry comes from having the ability to make the right decision even when all of the data is not available.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff8000\">Intuitive Decision Making<\/font><\/strong><br \/>\nThe ability to accurately compile intuitive perceptions about a situation into a decision or action. This ability allows one to be \u20ac\u0153intuitional\u20ac\u009d as opposed to intellectual (requiring data and logical reasoning) in effective decision making. This trait requires a good deal of understanding of people, the outside world and the ability to visualize the whole picture in a mental scenario.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with <em>strength<\/em> in this trait will be comfortable making decisions on their feet without having to study a situation or requiring logical data to examine.<\/p>\n<p>A <em>weakness<\/em> in this area indicates a salesperson who is not comfortable making decisions until he\/she has had sufficient time and information to analyze a situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, we&#8217;ll approach this week&#8217;s trait cautiously since it approaches some forms of gut-level decision-making. Strong selling requires salespeople who do not guess or assume. Rather, they qualify by asking the right questions and listening to the answers. But let&#8217;s face it, there is a bit of artistry to being a good salesperson. Much of that artistry comes from having the ability to make the right decision even when all of the data is not available. Intuitive Decision Making The ability to accurately compile intuitive perceptions about a situation into a decision or action. This ability allows one to be \u20ac\u0153intuitional\u20ac\u009d as opposed to intellectual (requiring data and logical reasoning)&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/sales-traits-series-intuitive-decision-making\/\">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-eZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"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=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"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! -->