Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success - by Colleen Stanley (Paperback)

About the Book

Even seasoned salespeople buckle in high-pressure situations. Learn how to increase your emotional intelligence to improve your performance, maximize results, and close more deals.

Book Synopsis

Even skilled salespeople buckle in tough selling situations--getting defensive with prospects who challenge them on price or too quickly caving to discount pressure. These fight-or-flight responses are something salespeople learn to avoid when building their emotional intelligence.

Sales trainer and expert Colleen Stanley cites studies that show how emotional intelligence (EI) is a strong indicator of sales success--and offers tips on how you can sharpen your skills and expand your emotional toolkit. Increasing your emotional intelligence is a sure way to overcome tough selling encounters.

In Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success, you'll learn:

• how to increase impulse control for better questioning and listening,
• which EI skills are related to likability and trust,
• how empathy leads to bigger sales conversations and more effective solutions,
• how emotional intelligence can improve prospecting efforts
• which EI skills are most common among top sales producers, and much more.

Customers can get product information and price comparisons online. The true differentiator between you and a bot is your ability to deftly solve problems and build relationships.

Emotional intelligence plays a vital role at every stage of the sales process. From business development to closing the deal, emotional intelligence will drive your performance--and your success.

From the Back Cover

"The world of relationship selling has not died. It has taken an evolutionary leap forward. If you want to be powerful in this new world of selling, you need the insights Colleen Stanley teaches in Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success. Any salesperson, regardless of market or years of experience, will take away priceless nuggets on improving his or her connection and effectiveness with buyers."

-- Tom Searcy, author of Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company

If you find yourself getting flustered with clients, caving to discount pressure, jumping the gun with your sales presentation, or wasting time with low-level prospects, adding another sales tactic to your tool kit won't fix the problem. Instead, there's a far more effective way to get your sales back on track: Ignite and develop your emotional intelligence (EI).

Empathizing with your prospects, expressing assertiveness, staying cool when hot buttons are triggered, even recognizing your buttons--this is the powerful inner territory explored in Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success, a breakthrough book that extends the range of EI to include common sales scenarios and challenges. Packed with case studies, action steps, and research findings, Emotional Intelligence for Sales Success explains:

- How to increase impulse control for better questioning and listening

- How the EI skills are related to likability and trust

- How empathy leads to bigger sales conver-sations and more effective solutions

- How emotional intelligence can improve prospecting efforts

- How the EI skills are shared by top sales producers

- And much more

In an age where customers can bypass salespeople with online research and direct purchasing, emotional intelligence helps you stay in the game by forging personal connections and creating partnerships--soft skills that bring hard results.

Colleen Stanley is president of SalesLeadership, Inc., a leading sales consulting firm that specializes in emotional intelligence and consultative sales skills training. She is a monthly contributor to The Business Journals and the author of Growing Great Sales Teams.

About the Author

COLLEEN STANLEY is president of SalesLeadership, a leading sales consulting firm that specializes in emotional intelligence and consultative sales skills training.