Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 112
In last week’s show my guest, Fred Saleeby, shared some stories about his career selling products and services.
I would often tell my Duke students that they are missing important experiences building their business and professional skills if they have never been in sales.
Here are three ways to learn when selling.
- You learn the Art of Persuasion
Face-to-face sales teaches us how to read people, finding evidence of what’s important to them and learning to adapt messaging on the fly.
- Rejection isn’t personal.
It’s feedback. You integrate it and improve the next time.
- Resourcefulness.
Success comes through persistence informed by adaptability.
So whether you are working on a startup or in a consulting or corporate role, the ability to influence, to read the room, to sell an idea or to sell you will always be important. Face-to-face selling is a real world course in human psychology, one that can’t be replicated behind a screen.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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