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How do salespeople cope with rejection?

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How do salespeople cope with rejection? — SHR, Geneva
How do salespeople cope with rejection? — SHR, Geneva

How do salespeople cope with rejection? — what studies show, and what they don't.

The research

Study: Seligman & Schulman (1986, JPSP)

The limit

Single context; replicate before generalising. (our executive and employee training programmes)

How do salespeople cope with rejection? — SHR, Geneva — Genève
How do salespeople cope with rejection? — SHR, Geneva — Genève

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Define one measurable indicator, test for a month, compare. To go further: explore the High-Value Selling training in Geneva, or browse our executive and employee training programmes in Switzerland.

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