Boost Emotional Awareness is an intermediate-to-advanced short course within the B2B Sales Negotiation: Leveraging AI Professional Certificate that helps sales professionals read, interpret, and respond to emotions in high-stakes business conversations. In complex sales environments, success depends not only on what is said, but on understanding emotional dynamics such as tension, hesitation, confidence, and trust.
Boost Emotional Awareness
Boost Emotional Awareness
This course is part of Advanced Selling with AI & Emotional Intelligence Specialization
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March 2026
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This lesson builds a shared, professional definition of Emotional Intelligence (EI) for sales and negotiation contexts. You will move from vague ideas (“be empathetic”) to a structured mental model grounded in four EI components: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The lesson focuses on recognition and language—so you can reliably name EI components accurately, identify what each looks like in a sales conversation, and avoid common EI misclassifications (e.g., friendliness, enthusiasm, or positivity). The lesson also frames EI as a business skill that supports trust, psychological safety, and smoother negotiation effectiveness by helping sellers stay composed under pressure and buyers feel understood. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to correctly name the four EI components, identify observable behaviors associated with each component in sales calls, and use professional, neutral language to describe emotional signals.
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This lesson will help you to move from knowing what Emotional Intelligence is to using it as an observational and adaptive skill in real sales conversations. In professional negotiation settings, EI is not demonstrated by what a seller feels, but by what they notice and how they respond. This lesson trains you to slow down your interpretation, identify emotional cues from both the buyer and themselves, and design responses that regulate tension, increase psychological safety, and strengthen relationship momentum. You will practice reading tone shifts, hesitation, enthusiasm, defensiveness, and disengagement as meaningful data rather than background noise. You will learn that emotional cues are not “soft impressions” but operational inputs that guide negotiation behavior. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to observe emotional dynamics in a role-play scenario, document emotional cues clearly, and propose adaptive responses that show emotional intelligence in action. This lesson establishes EI as a performance skill: something that can be practiced, evaluated, and improved through observation and reflection.
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