49: The Importance of Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence in Procurement

Good emotional intelligence – or EQ – can be an important factor in a successful and healthy life, both personally and professionally.  But what is emotional intelligence?  Can you learn it?  Can you teach it?  And how can it help us be more successful in procurement?  Jonathan and Paul speak to “The Procurement Protagonist” himself, Tom Mills to find out all this and more.  Hopefully, he can help Jonathan to stop being a “such and such”.



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