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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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AI Co-Trainer at MDI Management Development

MDI Training

How AI co-trainers are transforming leadership development at MDI I have been working with an AI co-trainer “Rudi” in my leadership training (lateral leadership, communication, …) for about 2 months now. Rudi has no insight into what the participants implement in their jobs after the seminar. Enjoy reading!

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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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7 Sales Negotiation Tips

Brooks Group

In addition, being transparent and keeping communication open, both during and after the negotiation process, can help build trust between parties. Rapport is the close relationship between two people or groups who share similar ideas or feelings and communicate effectively with one another. Persuasive Communication.

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How to Develop Empathy with Your Prospects and Close More Sales

Hubspot Sales

When we talk about emotional intelligence , one of the most important things we're referring to is the ability to recognize, understand, and respond to the emotional state of others in an appropriate way. You need to possess the ability to engage on an emotional level and become a resource for potential customers.