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The Leadership Quotient
Discussion: Execitive coaching
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rtriggs rtriggs |
Execitive coaching
May 19 2007, 10:02 PM EDT Great article. I work for a vary large global company and agree that executive coaching is becoming a much more accepted practice by the most hardned executives. It seems a large area of focus is helping a tough exec. work their Emotinal Inteligence. I would love to hear your thoughts on EI? Rob 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Anonymous |
RE: Execitive coaching
May 21 2007, 12:25 PM EDT I agree. Thank goodness emotional intelligence is becoming more valued in the workplace. As a parent, it's something I'm really trying to nurture in my children as well, because I'm sure highly developed EI will become a key indicator of success in their generation. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Anonymous |
Emotional Intelligence
May 22 2007, 10:34 AM EDT Thanks for your comment. I’ll preface my reply by saying I haven’t done much work re. EI, so my tendency is to be a bit skeptical about it as a discipline. Boiling it down to its essence, EI seems to me to be formalizing an approach everyone should be striving for in life as a whole, such as being more insightful, aware of one’s emotions and those of others, and being self-motivated. Really, these are ideals being discussed by Socrates in 400 BC. Cleaving all that into its own discipline called EI and utilizing screening tests with applicants to try and identify desired traits and weed out undesirables makes me suspicious – why not use the interviewer’s own Emotional Intelligence to decide if someone fits a company? I suspect there is a lot of disingenuous effort being expended at trying to create a need for many EI related services and products. That said, some very successful companies, like Disney and Southwest, use an approach similar to EI, in that they hire more for attitude than aptitude – generally looking for people whose demeanor and style match what they want and then train them for specific job. Having worked for some very professionally capable bosses who were such poor people managers as to be de-motivating to most subordinates and even emotionally scarring to a few, I certainly believe more work can be done to improve the interpersonal dynamic within companies. I had read something authoritative once (about 10 years ago) that the most common college degree of CEOs was English, so perhaps there is something to type of discipline the humanities demand, which place more emphasis on interpretation and gut-feeling than straight “black and white” analytics of the business sciences to creating well-rounded corporate leaders. -BC Do you find this valuable? |
 bcoffey |
RE: Emotional Intelligence
May 22 2007, 10:37 AM EDT Sorry, I forgot to sign in with my reply to Rob's comment on Emotional Intelligence. I am the author of the above article. Thanks for your comments! -Brendan Do you find this valuable? |