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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

You need to stand out to make buyers want to do business with you. 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. EI is a perishable skill.

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Research update on the most in-demand soft skills

Red Star Kim

And I thought its answer was pretty good: Leadership: The ability to inspire and motivate others, delegate tasks effectively, and make sound decisions under pressure will continue to be highly valued in senior leadership roles.

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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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Building and optimizing your diverse, multifunctional “Dream Team”

Strategic Account Management Association

But before I delve into what leaders can do to make this happen, I want to share some context for why it’s important. It starts with understanding where people are coming from and what makes them tick. Emotional intelligence. The business case for diversity. Two statistics to think about: 35% and 15%.

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Telephone call challenges: Emotions, data, selling and follow up

Red Star Kim

Finding a suitable location (quiet and without interruptions) to make calls when working in an office environment was sometimes a challenge. Some were fortunate to receive full details from the firm’s CRM supported by analytics showing digital activity and enquiry details. Qualification of calls and enquiries was also more difficult.

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Change Management – Heads, Hearts and Hands

Red Star Kim

Research on leadership and emotional intelligence (EQ) (kimtasso.com) shows that adaptability is one of the 12 domains of emotional intelligence (EQ). The ability to adapt behaviours depending on environment and situation is crucial for all change. expensive Stella Artois and slow Guinness).