The last part of this class was about emotional self-awareness, or the ability to understand one’s own emotions, and emotional expression, the skill of expressing one’s own emotions effectively. These are definitely important skills to have as McGuinness points out. Being able to understand one’s own emotions and express them in a meaningful way ensures that when others do the same, one can have empathy for them. It is important to have empathy for the person one coaches because, as a coach, one needs to know what motivates, inspires, frightens, angers, etc. the person they are coaching. Then the coach can work with those emotions to bring out the best that the coachee can be. McGuinness says, “The ability to empathise with the coachee is critical to the coaching process, as it not only helps the coach to accept the other person on their own terms, but also sometimes to ‘tune in’ to emotions and thoughts of which they are not fully aware” (McGuinness). That way, as Thompson says, a coach can provide a different perspective on the issues that create the emotions in the person they are coaching. I like this approach to coaching.
This class has offered many new and useful insights. While I am not so sure that Thompson talks about the kind of coach I want to be, he has some good ideas that I find useful. The other sources for this class were helpful because they were positive, and for me that goes a long ways. I want to feel positive about everything I do and I want to inspire others in a positive way.
Boyatzis, Richard. "4 2 Module 4 2 The Positive PEA and Negative NEA Emotional Attractors." YouTube, 27 November 2013. Web. 4 October 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... .
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