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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. But developing emotional intelligence in sales matters. What Is Emotional Intelligence?

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Differentiating Yourself: How to Use Emotional Intelligence in Sales

Brooks Group

Many sales leaders think the way to do this is to help their sales team sell better value or overcome objections. These are both good strategies, but the true differentiator is the sales professional and their emotional intelligence. They’re empathetic and highly emotionally intelligent.

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

Red Star Kim

14% Responding better to telephone enquiries (and conversion) 43% Improving client service on the telephone 14% Building relationships on the telephone 29% Using the telephone to reach people proactively (initiate sales conversations) How would you assess your emotional intelligence?

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Telephone skills: Anxiety, voice, etiquette and the client experience

Red Star Kim

All communications were disrupted during lockdown – the telephone once again became a valuable means of communications in the absence of face-to-face meetings. For less experienced people, the telephone is a medium where – as it is a truly interactive mode of communication – there was little control and more uncertainty.

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Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability

Red Star Kim

Another area for discussion was sales training and sales process management. We considered a few sales processes and RAIN (from Insight Selling – which is similar to Challenger selling) was appreciated. Developing self-awareness of your strengths and weaknesses and personal style drives the appetite for further training.

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Upskill to Upsell: Four Tips for Upselling

Brooks Group

Increase Your Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Emotional intelligence, also referred to as Emotional Quotient, is the ability to be aware of one’s own emotions and the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and empathetic manner. You can read more about EQ here.

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

What is surprising is that despite having demanding sales roles for new and existing clients, many professional services marketers have received little formal sales training. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. This has changed the sales process fundamentally in many environments.