A Coach's Guide to Emotional Intelligence: Strategies for Developing Successful Leaders

CONNECTING THE FIVE ESE PRACTICES AND EI MEASURES

Coaches assist clients in myriad challenges that are usually complicated by a variety of life conditions. It could be learning to manage up with a difficult boss, influencing an unmotivated employee, or deciding on a career shift or whether to get married or divorced. Given the breadth of potential coaching relationships, we highlight five central emotional and social effectiveness practices that will help you address the EI development challenges you encounter in your coaching work. These are bigger-picture concepts than the specific behavioral skills measured by EI assessments. In coaching you’re called upon to assist your client in effectively applying clusters of these skills, and based ...