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# Top 5 sales skills

We hope that was insightful! But you might be left wondering - what are some specific skills only the best salespeople possess?

There's way too many opinions on what the top skills for successful salespeople

In our research:

* We spoke to 30+ top tech European companies
* Performed a market study looking at the most demanded skills on sales job posts
* Revised extensive literature including Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue and Mark Roberge's The Sales Acceleration Formula.

**The result? We realised there's no "perfect" sales candidate or universal skills to predict success.**

**There's an ideal sales candidate, for a specific team, at a given moment in time.**

There are, however, some skills that were common across all sources and stood out to us:

👉 Coachability
👉 Resilience & Grit
👉 Communication skills
👉 Curiosity
👉 Empathy and emotional intelligence
👉 Work ethic

These skills enable sellers to:

👉 Better understand the buyer
👉 Communicate value effectively
👉 Build trust and rapport
👉 Think critically and use data to sell better
👉 Manage their time better to be more efficient

The great news? All these skills can be learnt 😉

Let's have a look!

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