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

COACHING FOR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE—VALUING SELF

Suppose you are called to assist a manager who works in the federal bureaucracy and will be retiring in five years. She wants to advance one more level in the system to achieve the maximum possible pay grade, but she doesn’t have a college degree and the next level will require supervising many more people than she has in the past. In your first session she spoke about having to “fake it” a lot to get by in her career, but you can see that she is actually very competent and likely to succeed at the next level of responsibility. She needs to discover and connect with this level of competency in herself so that her feelings of self-worth will support her congruently in supervising the larger ...