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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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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

There’s been a lot of talk about emotional intelligence in the last few years. Many people believe that a person’s EQ (emotional quotient) is just as important as IQ , if not more so. Does emotional intelligence affect successful teamwork? Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance?

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Book review – Can we start again? The patterns of NLP applied to business interactions by Daryll Scott

Red Star Kim

However, it didn’t entirely fulfil its promise of “ the patterns and techniques of neuro-linguistic programming applied to business presentations and applications”. Published by Noggin £14.99 But it is a thorough and detailed account of the material that you study on an NLP practitioner course – accessible and with lots of examples.

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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

There’s been a lot of talk about emotional intelligence in the last few years. Many people believe that a person’s EQ (emotional quotient) is just as important as IQ , if not more so. Does emotional intelligence affect successful teamwork? Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance?

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

This requires you to listen carefully to what is being said and to observe non-verbal communication that might suggest that there is something else to consider. A good example of a limiting belief comes from running. When people didn’t believe a person could run a mile in under four minutes – this became a limiting belief.

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Soft skills revisited – with a leadership perspective

Red Star Kim

An article in October 2022 in Training Magazine argued that the four most important soft skills to prioritise for remote work – to bridge the distance gap – were emotional intelligence (I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in my book), next-level communication (ie over-communication), active listening and conflict resolution.