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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.
This course turns emotional intelligence from a vague “soft skill” into a practical, observable capability. Learners explore the four core EI components—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—and apply them by observing role-play scenarios, identifying emotional cues, and designing responses that support psychological safety and negotiation progress.
Through videos, coach dialogs, and hands-on observation activities, learners develop disciplined emotional awareness that replaces guesswork with structured interpretation. By the end of the course, learners can recognize emotional signals and respond with professional intent, making emotional intelligence a repeatable advantage in negotiation.
This module 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.
What's included
3 videos2 readings1 assignment
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3 videos•Total 18 minutes
Emotional Awareness as a Sales Advantage•7 minutes
The Four EI Components in Sales—What Each One Looks Like•6 minutes
Micro-Signals That Reveal Emotion in Sales Conversations•5 minutes
2 readings•Total 7 minutes
EI ≠ Being Friendly: Common Misconceptions in Sales Communication•3 minutes
Emotionally Intelligent Language in Sales•4 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
Hands-on Learning: Classify EI Behaviors in a Short Sales Scenario•15 minutes
Observe and Interpret Emotional Intelligence in Live Sales Interactions
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
This module 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.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
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2 videos•Total 9 minutes
What Emotion Looks Like in Sales Conversations•5 minutes
Congratulations and Continuous Learning Journey•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 4 minutes
Calibrating Emotional Signals in Sales Conversations•4 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
Graded Assessment: Observing and Responding with Emotional Intelligence•20 minutes
Hands-on Learning: Observe a Sales Role-Play and Design Emotionally Intelligent Responses•20 minutes
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