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Why Emotional Intelligence Is A Critical Strength For Salespeople

Sales Gravy

Emotional Intelligence Is A Sales Superpower On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount sits down with Robin Hills, a business psychologist and expert in emotional intelligence from the UK. Emotional intelligence is a concept that Daniel Goleman launched and popularized approximately 30 years ago.

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Leadership conversation skills: SCARF model of neuroscience in social interactions, collaboration and relationships

Red Star Kim

Leadership conversation skills: SCARF model of neuroscience in social interactions, collaboration and relationships The SCARF model The premise of the SCARF model is that the brain makes us behave in certain ways to minimize threats and maximize rewards. S tatus is about where you are in relation to others around you.

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Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills

Red Star Kim

Nervousness – Shyness, modesty, lack of confidence and fear of failure can make fee-earners reluctant to organise meetings to take the next steps in building a potential client relationship. There is rarely a deep understanding of how disparate and disconnected decision-making units are across such large organisations.

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Top 10 Traits of Emotionally Intelligent Leaders?

SmartKarrot

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to recognize, understand and handle emotions. People equipped with the power of emotional intelligence can handle their emotions as well as others. Thus, we consider emotional intelligence (EQ) one of the most desirable traits for a leader. Compassion.

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Referrer Management – Capacity and Capability

Red Star Kim

Not ideal for mapping complex relationships across an organisation or co-ordinating integrated content and events programmes. And the problem was compounded with extraordinarily long lead times for sales through complex decision-making processes in professional services. Some people will believe that they are experts at selling.

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Achieve more engagement and buy-in: Relationships, Plan, Expectations, Benefits, Persuasion and Training

Red Star Kim

An introduction to emotional intelligence (EQ) and empathy (Video) (kimtasso.com). Building empathy with fee-earners helps us to understand what they expect and any assumptions they may be making about the likely results. Achieving buy-in before the event – rather than afterwards. Questioning skills) (kimtasso.com).

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Why are questions so important? (Questioning skills)

Red Star Kim

We ask questions to avoid making wrong assumptions or adopting the wrong focus. will make people pause to consider how their feelings compare with those they had the previous day. For example, when we first meet at a networking event. How can I help to make this better for us?” “How For example, “How are you today?”