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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. I work at [new store].”

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How Emotional Intelligence Impacts Close Rates in Sales

SuperOffice

The ability to understand that comes through emotional intelligence. In this article, we’ll discuss: What emotional intelligence is. How to teach emotional intelligence to salespeople. What is emotional intelligence (EQ)? Wondering what emotional intelligence is?

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Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings

Red Star Kim

Behaviour in sales meetings). This article is a reminder of the key points valued by the delegates: Nine insights: Sales processes and selling skills for targeting and meetings. Sales meetings. Delegates reported some fee-earner challenges when attending preliminary sales meetings. Debrief after meetings.

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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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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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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. This involves understanding how the adult learner gets new information and shifting to meet them where they are.

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Leading Your Sales Team In Uncertain Times – Feat. Graham Hooper

Sales Gravy

You'll learn how to succeed in volatile economic times by effectively handling decision deferment objections and conducting thorough research during the discovery phase of the sales process. Conducting effective, deep discovery and handling buying decision deferment objections will give salespeople a competitive edge in any economic climate.