RE: Lessons for all of us – SQLServerCentral

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May 24, 2018 at 7:58 am

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Jeff Mlakar - Thursday, May 24, 2018 7:28 AM
I like this topic - it encompasses many of the soft skills that technical people are not often taught. Ex. how many of your peers are good at advocating for themselves or being assertive (not aggressive but simply assertive)? Compare that with the personalities of your sales staff. Pretty different.

I liked your whole comment but this part really stood out to me. I can learn 10 different programming languages in a year but it may take the same amount of time for me to figure out how to confidently approach my boss for a raise, a task that any decent sale rep doesn't even consider a task. It just comes naturally to confidently approach another human with your thoughts.