{"id":661,"date":"2015-03-09T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=661"},"modified":"2015-03-09T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:22:58","slug":"servant-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/servant-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Servant Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

I worked in retail for 1 year and it was awful. I was constantly dealing with customers who thought that they were right, but who were absolutely wrong. Humility came into play because I had to learn that I could choose to get mad at the customers or I could choose to try and explain the situation in a humble manner. I built a lot of great relationships with customers because I took the time to explain things instead of being conceited. In retail, humility is key to sales. There are many times that customers are rude and will do anything to cheat the system, but being humble instead of “proving” that we are right often works best.<\/p>\n

Ephesians 4:2 states, “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.” One of the key principles of Christianity is humbling ourselves before God and others. But as Professor Sweet pointed out, humbling ourselves before others can help in the sales process. Being humble allows us to look at things from the customer’s perspective. C.S. Lewis said, “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.” When we see through the customer’s eyes, we can understand why they feel the way they feel and we can help to convince them into a sale without coming across as conceited. Humility is all about thinking of what the customer wants and needs instead of what we want. Since Christ has called us to humble ourselves before others, I believe that if we humble ourselves in sales and business instead of following culture, God will honor that.<\/p>\n

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I worked in retail for 1 year and it was awful. I was constantly dealing with customers who thought that they were right, but who were absolutely wrong. Humility came into play because I had to learn that I could choose to get mad at the customers or I could choose to try and explain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}