article thumbnail

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.”

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

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. EI is a perishable skill.

article thumbnail

21 Free Courses for Key Account Managers to Boost Your Skills Now

Account Manager Tips

Emotional intelligence 6. You'll learn behaviours and techniques that will make your natural creativity shine. This proven method will make you more open-minded and productive. This proven method will make you more open-minded and productive. Making Creativity and Innovation Happen. Creativity 2. Strategy 8.

article thumbnail

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. Emotional intelligence. The business case for diversity. Two statistics to think about: 35% and 15%.

article thumbnail

Winning Over Buying Groups: How to Sell to Multiple B2B Decision Makers

Brooks Group

Ten to fifteen years ago, a seller could huddle up with three or four decision makers and quickly decide on a purchase. Since 2010, the average buying group has grown from three to four decision makers to six to 10 according to research by Gartner. Decision-making time, compared to five to seven years ago, has increased by 60%.

B2B 75