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EQ Coaching
Great leadership requires more than intellectual intelligence; it requires self-knowledge and emotional mastery.
It’d be hard to overstate the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) in leadership. EQ accounts for 58% of performance in all jobs—in fact, it’s the single greatest predictor of success, and the strongest driver of leadership in the workplace.
Studies have shown 90% of top performers to score high on EQ, while only 20% of low performers score high on EQ.
Yet, for all of the leadership conferences I’ve attended & books I’ve read, I’ve found a dearth of resources on this deeper work.
EQ coaching has been invaluable for me, & for so many of my clients. For EQ coaching, we offer individual coaching, group coaching, leadership cohorts and on-site workshops.
If you’d like to setup a free exploratory call to see if EQ coaching may be a good fit for you or your team, book a call with the link below.
While our coaching and content will adapt to your contextual needs, below is a sample of some topics that often arise.
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Intro to EQ: Either we will learn to manage our emotions, our they will manage us.
Talent & Character: What makes a great leader? It’s going to take more than talent.
Warmth & Competence: First impressions matter more than you may think.
Instinct & Experience: The perfect combination is seasoned expertise with fresh instinct.
Redefining Greatness: Our cultural biases blind us to what true greatness looks like.
The Generative Leader: Moving from generic to generative will require some heavy processing.
From Proving Yourself to Improving Yourself: The start of change for your culture.
IQ, DQ, & EQ: What’s it like to be on the other side of your leadership?
Active & Reflective: The two mindsets of leadership require both assessment and advancement.
Modern Elders: Not just wisdom keepers of the past, but wisdom seekers of the future.
False Proxies: Some things are hard to measure, so we overstate the significance of the things we can.
Developing a Pipeline: Great leaders don’t amass followers; they create more leaders.
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Bathymetry: How the invisible depths shape the visible surface.
The Better Path: Responding in responsibility will always trump the spiral of reaction.
Healing is Hard: Nobody said it was easy, but no one ever said it would be this hard.
Patience and Process: How a few dozen dominoes can topple a tower.
Gravity & Chemistry: What makes you magnetic? A balance of polarities.
Emotional Predictability: Where Brené Brown made a mess of things.
Hinge Moments: Our high points and hard times of our life help forge our passion.
Overcoming Perfectionism and Procrastination: Embrace the iterative process.
Transparency & Vulnerability: The difference between letting someone see into your life vs. speak into your life.
The 5 Capitals: Finances matter, but they matter the least when it comes to evaluating where to invest your life.
Building Trust: Any relationship brings risk, and broken trust will undermine any future progress.
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Inspiring & Empowering: Why invitation and challenge are both key to a healthy culture.
Caught or Taught: Why osmosis is still the best way to get something new inside yourself.
Innovation & Adoption: Why do some new innovations stick, and others don’t?
Managing Expectations: How many of our disappointments could’ve been avoided with better expectations.
Purview and Preferences: None of us are as good as all of us.
The “i” in team: What you don’t want to be on a team.
Collective Creativity: The best you will ever offer will be in a culture that celebrates you.
Alignment & Hypersensitivity: In a healthy body, hurt still hurts. But it’s manageable.
Prioritize the Other: You will learn the most from people who don’t think, look, or act like you.
Modern Elders: Not just wisdom keepers of the past, but wisdom seekers of the future.
Survival of the Friendliest: What we can learn from the hidden life of trees.
Healthy Conflict: A culture that knows how to deal with conflict healthily will have limitless potential.
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The 5 questions: How to begin discovering your values.
Abundantly More: Rethinking what we assume is possible.
The 1-4-1-4: How to keep the end in mind with short term planning.
The Gym: The barbell works every time.
Unlimited Good: Character and Competency.
The Development Square: How to actually share your magic.
The bullseye: Discipline, Desire, Delight.
The EQ Matrix: How to avoid getting hijacked in leadership.
RMS: How using the Radical Minimum Standard can trigger growth in your culture.
The Vehicle: Why Vision, Relationships, Management and Programs need to buckle up.
The Kairos Circle: Not all moments are created equal; some are pregnant with possibility.
Ebb & Flow: The Semicircle of seasonality.
Receiving Criticism: The more you want to push back, the more you need to lean in.
Inquiry: Open upstream communication to reduce the status gap & bolster safety.
Outside Input: What others see in you that you don’t see in yourself.
6 Word Story: Because clarity is key.