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Sales and Emotional Intelligence: How to Hire Your Next Top Performer

Brooks Group

Sales and emotional intelligence go together like skiing and snow. Since the 1960s, emotional intelligence has been recognized as a critical component of both personal and professional success. Yet many sales leaders focus on building their team’s hard skills and neglect sales emotional intelligence or “ soft skills.”

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Differentiating Yourself: How to Use Emotional Intelligence in Sales

Brooks Group

These are both good strategies, but the true differentiator is the sales professional and their emotional intelligence. Successful sales professionals differentiate themselves three ways: They are highly emotionally intelligent. They’re empathetic and highly emotionally intelligent. EI is a perishable skill.

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Private client management and marketing: Business plans, recruitment, assessments and automation (Nov 2023)

Red Star Kim

An important assessment that I use a lot is for Emotional Intelligence (EQ). EQ covers a lot of the important abilities people need to support good communications and relationships. Furthermore, whereas personality is fairly fixed we can improve our emotional intelligence. kimtasso.com). kimtasso.com).

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Top six leadership qualities?

Red Star Kim

Personally, I think emotional intelligence (EQ) – particularly self-awareness – and the art of communication to promote collaboration should be in the list. In this rapidly changing world, what would you consider the essential leadership qualities? The post Top six leadership qualities? appeared first on Kim Tasso.

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20 insights on change management processes and communication

Red Star Kim

And here are 20 insights on change management processes and communication. Consider the change process from the individual’s (emotional) and organisation’s (rational) perspectives and consider the behaviour changes required. Plan the change process carefully – including stakeholder communication at every stage.

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Can AI Support EI Development For Leaders?

MDI Training

Click below to access our AI-generated version of this blog article! Our MDI trainer and partner Vladimir Novac asked around and collected a few thrilling insights on the connection between artificial and emotional intelligence. Enjoy reading! Recommendations can be based on ongoing assessments and feedback.

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Research update on the most in-demand soft skills

Red Star Kim

Diversity and inclusion (communicating for D&I) is covered well here Book review: Digital Body Language – How to build trust by Erica Dhawan (kimtasso.com) ). But since 2007 companies advertising C-suite openings have increasingly emphasised the importance of social skills and de-emphasised operational expertise.