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Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving?

Harvard Business

It’s possible to fake emotional intelligence. Similar to knockoffs of luxury watches or handbags, there are emotions and actions that look like the real thing but really aren’t. Given that most people aren’t sociopaths, in my experience, the more common misuses of emotional intelligence are subconscious.

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How to be Politically Savvy

CaseInterview.com

However, if your boss’s goal as Vice President of Sales is to hit the annual sales target for the company, she’ll likely be very open about that goal. To do this effectively, it helps to have the emotional intelligence skills to notice what other people care about. There’s a simple rule for how to be politically savvy.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

18% reported a failure to close a sale. Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is considered the ability to recognize, express, comprehend and regulate emotions. Emotional intelligence is two times more impactful on leadership effectiveness than your mental or technical ability.

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Servant Leadership: The Antidote to Toxic Workplaces

Rick Conlow

Employees want and need leaders who are humane, empathetic and skilled in emotional intelligence. Clients achieve record-breaking performances in sales growth, customer experience improvement, employee engagement and leadership effectiveness. Unfortunately, toxic offices, plants, stores, and managers abound.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Among CEO top priorities are sales growth and profit. Customer loyalty generates sales growth and profit. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels. Here are three reasons why CEOs let this happen: CEO priorities upside down.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

Which is a sales killer. Yes, emotions. Emotional intelligence [has become] simply new jargon for discussing our emotions. They won't hire you for that unless they are looking for a low-paid extra "pair of hands.". And they don't have the same vocabulary as you do.

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Scaling Change

Brimstone Consulting

Within the program, sessions focus on situational leadership, emotional intelligence, vulnerability, and developing a “teachable point of view.”. By: Kate Lee In Case Studies Posted April 7, 2020 Becoming a Sales Leader. The program is leader-led and is structured around leading self, leading others, and leading change.