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

Brooks Group

Your sales professionals are no longer presenting to a few players; theyre now performing for a panel of diverse stakeholderseach with their own expectations, requirements, and priorities. The buyers journey has become a complex negotiation requiring diplomacy, deep understanding, and the ability to build cross-functional consensus.

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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

There’s been a lot of talk about emotional intelligence in the last few years. Many people believe that a person’s EQ (emotional quotient) is just as important as IQ , if not more so. Does emotional intelligence affect successful teamwork? Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance?

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The Difference Between Customer Satisfaction vs. Customer Loyalty

Brooks Group

Emotional Intelligence Develop emotional intelligence soft skills to read and respond to customer emotions. Practice using narratives to illustrate product value in sales presentations. Active Listening Foster the ability to fully engage with customers’ needs and concerns.

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Coaching and Consulting skills – Limiting beliefs, approaches to helping and marketing consultancy

Red Star Kim

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How to Build Emotionally Intelligent, Productive Teams

CMOE

There’s been a lot of talk about emotional intelligence in the last few years. Many people believe that a person’s EQ (emotional quotient) is just as important as IQ , if not more so. Does emotional intelligence affect successful teamwork? Why Is Emotional Intelligence Important for Team Performance?