Saturday, November 29, 2014

How Do You Know If Your Coaching Is Needed Or Wanted?


 In my opinion, many coaches fail to prosper as coaches based on the incorrect assumption that their services are wanted and needed by persons with the ability to pay. Far too often, the coach decides to offer the type of coaching that he or she may personally find useful.

When there is no identified niche, regardless of the type of marketing that is done, the chances of success are unlikely. Persons who have the resources to pay for coaching are generally intelligent enough to determine if what is being offered is credible.

The notion that a coach can help you achieve your dreams without knowing or considering your limitations makes little sense. Most of the time, a person’s income is based on his or her education or training. Being well educated reduces one’s vulnerability to marketing scams that make unrealistic claims.

Let’s take look a coaching model designed to address a demonstrated need.

In 2008, The Joint Commission issued an alert mandating that all Health Care Organizations must have written policy designed to address “disruptive physicians”. This new mandate immediately created a cottage industry of providers of anger management for “disruptive physicians”.

As the largest provider of Anger Management Facilitator Certification and Emotional Intelligence Coaching for Impulse Control, Anderson & Anderson, APC published a coaching curriculum for “disruptive behavior/impulse control.

This became a new coaching niche that is needed and wanted by persons with the ability to pay. With forty-years of credibility in mental health, higher education for physicians and anger management training, it was relatively easy for Anderson & Anderson, APC to market this coaching.


The A + A Emotional Intelligence Coaching for Professionals is designed to meet the needs of high-level executives, physicians, and clients who prefer to be seen on an individual basis for specialized coaching and increased privacy.
The program includes The Practice of Control, our client workbook for Physicians and other Professionals, Gaining Control of Ourselves, our anger management DVD, and the Contrasting Wheels of Behavior – the DO’s and DONT’s of self-control.
After scheduling a coaching session, each of our coaching clients receives an E-mail containing access to the internationally recognized Bar On EQ-I 2.0 Emotional Intelligence assessment.  The assessment can be taken online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to most conveniently accommodate the client’s schedule.
Our Clients report back that it takes about 15 – 20 minutes to complete.  For the best results, don’t overthink it.  Read the questions and answer honestly for the most accurate results and most effective service from A + A.  You will find it easy and interesting!
 Inside The EQ-I 2.0
This comprehensive assessment examines the following Emotional Intelligence competencies:
EQ-I- 2.0 – Five Key Areas With 15 Scales Of Measurement
The 1- 5 – 15 factor structure of the EQ-I 2.0 model features one overarching EI score (Total EI), broken down into five composite scores, which, in turn, are broken down into a total of 15 subscales.
The On EQ-I- 2.0 Assessment Instrument measures the client’s level of functioning in the areas of:
   Emotional Self Awareness
   Self Actualization
   Self Regard
   Independence
   Assertiveness
   Emotional Expression
   Social Responsibility
   Empathy
   Interpersonal Relationships
   Optimism
   Stress Tolerance
   Flexibility
   Impulse Control
   Reality Testing
   Problem Solving

The scales on the EQ-I- 2.0 are interrelated, meaning that a deficit in one area can indicate and lead to a deficit in other areas, and the strengthening of one area, will lead to the strengthening of other areas. 
Choosing Your Assessment Report – Workplace Report vs. Leadership Report
We offer clients two ways to interpret and analyze your scores.  We can present your scores to you in two different ways.
The Workplace Report focuses on the impact of emotional intelligence on coworkers, supervisors, and clients, which can be used to develop current employees, or in evaluating the strength of prospective employees.
The Leadership Report evaluates an individuals strengths and weaknesses in emotional intelligence that correlate with leadership performance.  This report can help answer questions like:  How will this individual manage a conflict, come up with creative solutions, or lead a multigenerational staff?
The Workplace Report
The Workplace Report is designed for use in a wide variety of coaching and development situations and work settings. It focuses on the impact of emotional intelligence at work and offers suggestions for working with colleagues, supervisors, and clients. In recruiting, this report is useful when using scores to guide the selection of follow-up interview questions, and in identifying potential training and development needs.
When you generate a Workplace Report, you will receive two PDFs. The administrator retains the Coach section for interpretation.
The Leadership Report
The Leadership Report provides an in-depth look at EI strengths and weaknesses through the lens of leadership. It does this by correlating emotional intelligence subscales with leadership performance in four key dimensions: Authenticity, Coaching, Insight, and Innovation. These leadership dimensions were identified from research conducted on 221 leaders who took the EQ-I 2.0 and who also responded to a leadership assessment.
The Leadership Report contains the same EQ-I 2.0 Total, Composite, Subscale, and Validity Indicator scores as the Workplace report. The Leadership Report also contains the following features:
   · Subscale pages with an interpretation of the client’s leadership and organizational impact.
   · An Executive Summary page that showcases the client’s three highest and three lowest scoring EI skills.
   · A Leadership Potential page.
   · A Leadership Derailer section.
   · A Leadership Bar that highlights how the client’s scores fare in comparison to other leaders.
Current Leadership Topics on managing conflict, achieving a work-life balance, and leading a multigenerational team.

The Skills We Target and the Potential Benefits of Our Coaching Program
The Professional Coaching Outline
Sessions 1, 2, & 3: The coach will provide an overview of EQ coaching and the EQ-i assessment, define the 15 scales of the EQ-i, and debrief the client on assessment results with a personalized interpretation of how this impacts the client.
Sessions 4, 5, & 6: The coach will continue a discussion of the assessment results, making links to relevant aspects of the client’s personal experience in professional and personal life, and develop an action plan to establish goals for coaching.
Sessions 7 & 8: The coach will target impulse control.  Sessions will introduce the A+A workbooks “Gaining Control of Ourselves” and “The Practice of Control,” as well as define and explain The Contrasting Wheels Of Behavior, which will be used to help the client master various targeted skills and complete exercises within the workbooks.
Sessions 9 & 10: The coach will target stress management, provide feedback on progress, and discuss skill applications with clients.
Sessions 11 & 12: Emotional Intelligence profile summary and practical applications.

Targeted Skills and Potential Benefits Of Coaching Program
Sessions 1-6 target Self-Awareness, the pre-requisite for all other emotional intelligence skills.  To improve skills, reduce stress, and improve interpersonal relationships and performance in professional and personal settings, the client must first dedicate time to becoming aware of his or her emotional intelligence profile.  These guided sessions focus on the EQ-i 2.0 Assessment, which the coach will use to strengthen the client’s understanding of the impact of emotions, thoughts, behaviors, styles of communication, strengths, and weaknesses in his or her personal life.
Sessions 7-12 focuses on skill-enhancement exercises, designed to help clients practice and improve in skill areas that will most benefit them in their lives.  These areas can be identified by both client and coach, and added to the Action Plan.  These sessions will feature homework assignments to help the client:
   Identify situations that produce emotions of anger or frustration
   Learn that anger is a secondary emotion, and underlying feelings trigger our anger
   Understand that anger can be an indication of unmet needs that require more attention
   Gain coping skills to manage emotions in interpersonal relationships at work and outside of work
   Practice these skills and record Behavior Logs to report how you managed a situation from your daily life and chart progress towards mastery of new skills
   Label stressors and their effects
   Monitor negative self-talk and its effects
   Problem-Solve to overcome stressful situations
   Apply emotional intelligence techniques to real life situations
   Use emotional intelligence to manage anger and develop deeper empathy

Potential Benefits of Coaching

If practiced and utilized as taught, the skills learned in the areas of self-awareness, self-control, social awareness and relationship management, as well as anger management, communication, stress management, and emotional intelligence will enable the client to be more productive, less stressed, and more empathic to the needs of others.  The client will communicate more effectively, and express emotions more appropriately.  Research suggests that individuals with high EQ are more successful in their careers and personal relationships than their low EQ counterparts.

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