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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

Emotional Intelligence Sellers must be able to read stakeholder dynamics, adapt their communication style, and build rapport with different personality types. Patience and Persistence Lastly, it takes fortitude to manage extended sales cycles, maintain momentum, and stay responsive to evolving requirements of corporate decision makers.

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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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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 Choose the Best Sales Trainer for Your Company

Brooks Group

People Skills A good sales trainer has the emotional intelligence to adapt to the unique set of personalities and learning styles inherent in every sales team. The post How to Choose the Best Sales Trainer for Your Company appeared first on Sales Training Company - Award Winning Sales Training Classes & Seminars.