Is Emotional Intelligence Coaching for You?
First things first, what is coaching? Coaching is often defined as a conversational and non-judgmental space created between two people which is characterized by mutual respect, trust, openness, and a commitment to supporting the Candidate to learn, develop, and grow, personally and/or professionally. Coaching is about supporting learning rather than teaching.
The job of the Coach is to facilitate the process of arriving at a suitable way forward not by providing such answers but by providing insights, interventions, and -sometimes thought-provoking questions with the aim to create access to that inner reflective space.
On the Personal Spectrum: Emotional Intelligence Coaching is suitable for those human beings that experience Emotions when they do what they do, hence pretty much all of us. For those who feel emotionless, would be safer, to begin with Acknowledgment and Embodiment of Emotions. EI Coaching is for those who believe we are People before being Experts. This type of coaching is for those who deeply believe our emotions can be our strongest resource. Emotional Intelligence facilitates seeing those emotions, understanding those emotions, regulating them, and in the final phases, using those specific emotions as an advantage. Using a metaphor: Your emotions can be like a huge fire inside of You, which might scare sometimes but when You know how to handle that huge fire, You will find safety, stability, protection, power, control, keenness, and the right dosage of warmth when needed.
On the Professional Spectrum: Emotional Intelligence is considered a very powerful deterrent against the so-called Great Resignation. Employees are nowadays leaving high-salary jobs because of a lack of purpose alignment, motivation, and engagement. We are People before being Experts, this is the reason why EI considers the human components first, our emotions, and our inner Self.
When You support Your employees feeling good, they will help You feel good too. “Give what You need” is the concept for Inspiring Leaders. If You want Respect, You must respect first. If You want Love, Love first. Similarly, if You want Your employees/ team members/ family/ peers to comprehend Your emotions, pressures, stresses, and concerns, then, understand theirs first. EI Coaching can assist individuals, teams and company leaders in building an Emotionally Safe environment.
Does EI Coaching relate to my Role?
EI Coaching is efficient with A-suite levels (Apex Positions) as they could be the highest leadership-culture-influencer in their companies, and organisations. EI facilitates the transition towards a leadership style that uses employees’ emotions as the competitive edge for the employees firstly, and for the organisation itself secondly. Business owners indeed (B-suite) have the opportunity to analytically read their soft skills in numbers, rationalising the efficient usage of those skills. EI allows us to comprehend why we do what we do, and deeply, why we do it the way we do it. Moreover, EI empowers the Candidate with awareness concerning How s/he feels in the Emotional spectrum too (thanks to overlap on Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, CBC). Suitable for C-suite levels (CEOs, CFOs, COOs, etc) as they typically are in charge of a compartment, department, branch, or team. EI coaching here can be the secret-weapon of inspiring leaders and managers who see humans before experts. Crucial for the Chief’s personal development and, the development of the team’s cohesion, positivity, and unity. D-Levels are welcome too, even considered they work with digital technology and data analysis, they surely experience emotions when they do what they do, both when working and in their lives, and during their interactions with their environments too. Also here, Emotional Intelligence plays a gigantic role in an overall higher sense of alignment.
Concluding, I reiterate the concept “Give what You need”. If You’d like Your family, peers, colleagues, employees, and team members, to comprehend Your emotions, pressures, stresses, and concerns, then, understand theirs first.
If You’d like to read more about the topic, You can find a 10min reading pdf in the ‘files’ section, and a case study too. Instead, if You favour a dialogue about Your unique scenario, please do contact me. I would be glad to arrange a Zoom call.
Thanks for Your time, I hope I served.
Nick
Coaching & Mentoring
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence Team
human capital