{"id":985,"date":"2007-06-07T07:42:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-self-assessment\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T07:42:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T12:42:36","slug":"sales-traits-series-self-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-self-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales Traits Series &#8211; Self-Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explore an important aspect of a salesperson&#8217;s psyche.&nbsp; If you are a sales manager, this trait will explain your salesperson&#8217;s view of himself and how best to manage to that view.<\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#ff8000\">Self Assessment<\/font><\/strong><br \/>The ability to practically and objectively identify one\u20ac\u2122s personal management strengths and weaknesses. This is the ability of a salesperson to take the skills and techniques that they have gained in evaluating external situations and apply them to evaluating their own performance and abilities.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson with <em>strength<\/em> in this area is capable of accurately evaluating his or her own strengths and weaknesses. They see themselves clearly.<\/p>\n<p>A&nbsp;<em>weakness<\/em> in this area indicates a salesperson who does not judge his or her own capabilities accurately. They incorrectly evaluate their abilities (<em>either over-estimate or under-estimate<\/em>).&nbsp; This inaccuracy can create trouble when they set their own goals and expectations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we explore an important aspect of a salesperson&#8217;s psyche.&nbsp; If you are a sales manager, this trait will explain your salesperson&#8217;s view of himself and how best to manage to that view. Self AssessmentThe ability to practically and objectively identify one\u20ac\u2122s personal management strengths and weaknesses. This is the ability of a salesperson to take the skills and techniques that they have gained in evaluating external situations and apply them to evaluating their own performance and abilities. A salesperson with strength in this area is capable of accurately evaluating his or her own strengths and weaknesses. They see themselves clearly. A&nbsp;weakness in this area indicates a salesperson who&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/06\/sales-traits-series-self-assessment\/\">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-fT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"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! -->