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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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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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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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7 Key Steps to Develop a Leadership Mindset

CMOE

Emotional intelligence: Well-equipped leaders can understand and regulate their own emotions while recognizing those of their team members. Leaders with high emotional intelligence, or EQ, recognize the power of emotions as they impact the social dynamics in the workplace.

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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. The post The Difference Between Customer Satisfaction vs. Customer Loyalty appeared first on Sales Training Company - Award Winning Sales Training Classes & Seminars.

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4 Customer Personality Types Your Sales Reps Must Be Able to Recognize

Brooks Group

Develop Emotional Intelligence Sellers should practice empathy and try to understand the prospect’s perspective and concerns, regardless of their personality type. Give your team opportunities to work on recognizing and managing their emotions as well as reading and responding to others’ emotions effectively.