Emotional Intelligence Coaching
Why would you want to increase your emotional understanding and personal effectiveness? First, let’s define “emotional intelligence (EI),” and then maybe you can answer this question better.
According to Psychology Today, “Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability to identify, name and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the emotions of others. Emotional intelligence is generally said to include a few skills: namely emotional awareness, or the ability to identify and name one’s own emotions; the ability to harness those emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving; and the ability to manage emotions, which includes both regulating one’s own emotions when necessary and helping others to do the same.
… Because of this, the emotionally-intelligent generally have high self-confidence and are realistic about themselves. A person high in EI is not impulsive or hasty with their actions. They think before they do. This translates into steady emotion regulation, or the ability to reduce how intense an emotion feels.”
From my own personal work and work with others, including business executives, I see EI as encompassing even more than is traditionally thought. Someone high in EI is typically more situationally-aware—can see the “big picture” underlying events, behaviors and varying viewpoints. This includes a personal toolkit that includes intra-personal and inter-personal skills such as empathy, compassion, patience, openness, collaboration and linguistic capability, to name a few. This quality becomes more and more important as executives move up the ladder.
These skills are valuable in any human system, but their criticality has been recognized in the corporate world, where time and again, an aspiring leader hits a ceiling in the organization, unable to get further promotions into positions of higher authority and influence.
It is not uncommon for hitting this covert ceiling is the lack of emotional intelligence. Proven skills as logical thinkers and problem-solvers are only able to take a high-potential leader so far up the corporate ladder. At some point, those vaunted individual contributor skills have to give way to the higher-level leadership skills that leverage EI.
If you would like to develop more in the area of Emotional Intelligence.
