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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 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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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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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

They gave examples like closing a sales office in Japan, breaking a verbal promise made during after-work drinks in China, or ignoring “sleeping” business partners in a Saudi Arabian deal, all of which have cultural and ethical components. Emotional intelligence can help you here.

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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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To Develop Cultural Dexterity, Seek It Out

Harvard Business

Global organizations need leaders with cultural dexterity — the ability and know-how to make a sale in Seoul just as effectively as they host a meeting in Riyadh.

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Anna Sale on Money, Shame, and Tough Work Conversations

Harvard Business

A conversation about hard conversations at work – when to hold back and how to push forward.

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