Competitive Advantage From Emotional Intelligence Coaching

By Margaret Richardson


For an organization to grow, employees must deliver to the expectations. This means that they must try to fit into the vision and mission of the organization. This cannot happen sometimes because of emotions. No wonder, emotional intelligence coaching aims at aligning the emotions of an individual. When emotions are managed, the workers of an organization are able to do away with some behaviors that would affect their performance.

The performance of an employee will depend on whether they have fear, are angry, sad, happy, surprised or trusted. As such, it is important to manage their state of mind in as far as these feelings are concerned. The efforts to control the feelings of employees will never be in vain. When employees are happy and contented, they will deliver to the expectations of the organization.

An organization may want to involve a skilled coach to work on the emotional intelligence of its workforce. This is recommended but individual initiative also works. Before reaching out for help, the organization may want to encourage its workforce to evaluate their own emotions and understand themselves first. The skilled support can help correct the defects on the emotions as discovered.

There are many benefits to managing feelings. The output is guaranteed to improve. There is a difference between completing a task and completing it to the desired level. When feelings are controlled, the desired output will be achieved. This alone boosts self-trust. When you achieve your target you are motivated to even do more and nothing appears challenging anymore. Many people fail because they fear. When feelings are controlled, even interactions with seniors are improved and ideas are easily exchanged.

The free expression is normally countered by lack of confidence or fear. Whereas it is expected that one would exhibit fear at some point, too much of it would affect performance. A fearful employee will keep useful ideas to themselves and they can even discourage those who wish to share. They will hold back from engaging in tasks that move the organization forward.

Most times, fear comes from a past experience, lack of experience in an assignment or even pure anxiety. Anxiety is where you are not sure of what to expect and you are not willing to find out. The other emotions are equally powerful. Anger, for instance, is characterized by antagonism towards someone or something we feel has wronged us. It pushes one to elicit negative emotions and react in ways that can be damaging.

The first step to managing feelings starts with an individual. One needs to understand their own feelings first. Thereafter, they also need to understand the feelings of the others around them. Feeling management is two-way. Stronger personal relationships are effective in the management of feelings. If need be, skilled help can be sought.

In managing emotions, one leads by example. You cannot help someone manage their feelings when you are not in control of your own. The process of coaching others emotionally would also sharpen your own emotional intelligence. Simple things like commending what is good and offering support will go a long way. Now you have the secret to gaining a competitive advantage; simply manage emotions of workers.




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