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Navigate Emotions

Navigate Emotions is one of the core competencies in the Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence. It’s the ability to assess, harness, and transform emotions as a strategic resource.

Coaching Through the Emotional Recession: Three Practical Tips for Trauma-Informed Coaching

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in March 2021, “When there is mass trauma, it affects communities for many years to come.” While coaching isn’t a “treatment” for trauma, in the Emotional Recession we’re facing now, chances are, your clients, colleagues, and you are carrying more trauma than 4 years ago. What do we do as coaches?

Knowing Isn’t Coaching: Three Emotional Intelligence Tools for Professional Coaches

Here’s how to use emotional intelligence to break out of a fixed mindset of “knowing the answer” and make your own (difficult) emotions an ally as a coach.

Coaching Down the Escalator: 3 Emotional Intelligence Tips for Coaches to Reduce Volatility & De-escalate Conflict in a Polarized World

As people become more volatile around us, our brains’ natural response is to also become more reactive. Coaching provides a perfect opportunity to step out of this cycle of escalation, but it’s a difficult emotional puzzle; here’s a map of the process with three emotional intelligence tips for coaches.

When Change Fails: Tips for Coaching with Emotional Intelligence

Sometimes change is easy, but when we get stuck, big, difficult feelings emerge. While some coaches are ill-equipped to engage those challenging feelings, it’s a prime opportunity for transformational coaching.

Navigate Emotions in the Six Seconds Model of EQ

Managing emotions could be helpful… but that implies stuffing them away. How can we HARNESS the wisdom and power of feelings to help us move?

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