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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). Furthermore, whereas personality is fairly fixed we can improve our emotional intelligence. There is also a post on emotional intelligence and leadership Research on leadership and emotional intelligence (EQ) (kimtasso.com).

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Using Emotional Intelligence to Build Trust in Your Brand

Brooks Group

Successful leaders and superior performers can combat this with well-developed emotional intelligence (EQ) skills, which enable them to work well with a wide variety of people because they can respond effectively to rapidly changing conditions in the business world.

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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.

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Kim Tasso qualifies as a psychotherapeutic counsellor

Red Star Kim

In particular, my part-time roles in: Providing strategy, change management, marketing and sales consultancy Consultancy, training and coaching for professional service firms (kimtasso.com) to law, accountancy, surveying and other professional firms Clients of Kim Tasso – legal, accountancy, property and other firms As Head of Training and Learning (..)

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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.