Emotional Intelligence

A powerful way to become a truly effective leader is to develop your emotional intelligence.

Emotional Intelligence (EI or EQ) concerns your ability to become aware of your emotional state and manage that state both for yourself and in your awareness of others and how you handle your relations with them. Its core capability is Self-Awareness.

For example, in terms of your effectiveness at work, EI far outweighs IQ: for all jobs, EI contributes 66.6% and IQ 33.3%; for leaders it is 85% and 15% respectively.

My coaching is designed to facilitate your EI development in four key areas:

Self-Awareness

The core skill, which enables you to guide your own behaviour: it includes being aware of your emotions and their effects on work, performance, relationships, etc., knowing your strengths and development areas and your belief in yourself.

Self-Management

Crucially this concerns your ability to keep disruptive feelings under control but also how you manage yourself, such as your ability to be authentic and open, flexibility, your internal driver to improve performance, the readiness to take the initiative and your level of optimism.

Social Awareness

This is about your attunement to others, with the vital ability to empathise with others' emotions, perspectives and concerns. Such awareness extends to an awareness of the currents within an organisation and a readiness to provide service to customers.

Building Relationships

The ability to build effective relationships within organisations, displaying leadership qualities in, for example, inspiring and motivating others, an awareness of and responsiveness to others' developmental needs, the ability to influence others, open and clear communication, a readiness to listen, the ability to work in and with teams and the ability to manage conflict and handle change positively.

As a priority, I seek to develop self-awareness, since the other areas depend on self-awareness. If you don't know what you're doing, how can you change it?

Coaching in Emotional Intelligence is often a key part of the coaching I provide

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