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<\/a>Bill is a brainiac.\u00a0 He knows the information, he knows the numbers, and he knows the process.\u00a0 Bill is unaware of feelings.\u00a0 Bill advanced in his career because of his book smarts, and then he found that his limited emotional and interpersonal smarts were minimizing his effectiveness.\u00a0 Bill did the research \u2013 after all that is his forte \u2013 and decided that it made sense to hire a coach<\/a>.\u00a0 Bill asked his HR department and colleagues for recommendations<\/a>.\u00a0 After interviewing six coaches extensively, Bill choose one he felt was the best for him.<\/p>\nAfter exploring the big picture for Bill to create a common awareness of his goals in multiple areas along with his influencing factors, Bill\u2019s coach<\/a> Jennifer asked in-depth questions about Bill\u2019s chosen focus: emotional and interpersonal awareness.\u00a0 Jennifer asked Bill to make a list of emotions with definitions.\u00a0 Then she asked him when each emotion was most likely to be present for him.\u00a0 Next Jennifer asked Bill his options<\/a> for being aware of his emotions.\u00a0 Jennifer followed this with questions on how Bill wanted to appropriately express his emotions.\u00a0 Finally she asked Bill to describe his ideal outcome with his own emotional awareness and expression.<\/p>\n During the coaching conversation, Bill developed a strategy for increasing his knowledge through research and reading, practicing awareness with the use of reminders to himself, and observing reactions to his expressions of emotion.\u00a0 In subsequent coaching sessions, Bill discussed what he had learned and how he wanted to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emotional Intelligence: The ability to identify and manage one\u2019s own emotions. Bill is a brainiac.\u00a0 He knows the information, he knows the numbers, and he … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[70,59,77,48,50,55,88,89,118,84,115,103,74,78],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-stories","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-business-2","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-effective-coaching","tag-executive-coach","tag-executive-coach-certification","tag-goals","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-opportunities","tag-plan","tag-rapport","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n