Workplace
Spirituality:
Salesmanship
Susan Kramer
Workplace
Spirituality:
Salesmanship
Susan Kramer
Salesmanship
is usually thought of as actions for the sale of goods or services.
None of us are 100% self-sufficient on this planet. Rather, each of us contributes something of ourselves to others, and in return uses what others provide. So, in this way we have access to everything that we need to live in society.
Almost every day in every way we are selling ourselves as we present our point of view, whether in business dealings or in relationships. We each have an opinion and the right to express that opinion as long as it does not hurt anyone else, or ourselves, either. If we sway someone in a business dealing to our way of thinking or buying from us for our own profit, and it causes detriment to the other person, an unpleasant boomerang will return to us in kind. That boomerang effect is the deadening of ourselves to our esoteric qualities—qualities that give us our unique human capacity for joy, which is beyond our purely animalistic aspect of greed.
It is only in the plant and animal kingdom that survival depends on getting what is needed, no matter who has to suffer.
As humans, the continuance of our life does not depend on someone else having to suffer. And if we cause another's suffering in our quest for survival, we reduce ourselves below our humanness into an animalistic state.
So how do we know if our means justify our ends in selling ourselves or a product? We can keep these points in mind:
1. Will our actions cause detriment to another person?
2. Are we telling a lie to get some gain?
3. Are we promising what we can not deliver?
If we pass these three questions with three 'no' answers, we win because we maintain our peace of mind.
Just to recap: In sales or in any kind of business or personal interaction we are selling to make a favorable impression on another so that they will more likely buy what we are offering. That is right and good if we are sure that we can and will deliver all that we promise.
We preserve and
enhance our humanity by giving the best of ourselves in all aspects of living—in
personal life, and in our business dealings.
Workplace Spirituality: Salesmanship © 2004 Susan Kramer
web site http://www.susankramer.com
email susan@susankramer.com
photo credit Stan Schaap; violas, The Netherlands