By Elisabeth Goodman, 22nd October 2020 Regular reflection enables greater self-awareness, flexibility and resilience The value of creating time for reflection is something that has surfaced a few times lately in my one-to-one coaching sessions with clients. People are so busy, juggling challenges at work and at home that finding time to stop and think …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th September 2020 neither endurance nor unqualified positivity Resilience is something of a buzzword at the present time, and yet there are some misunderstandings of what it is about. As my Barefoot Coaching tutor, Diane Hanna (2020) reminded me in a recent group supervision session, it’s not about just gritting your teeth …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th August 2019 The Summer issue of APM’s (Association for Project Management) Project magazine has a couple of excellent articles on rebuilding relationships. Susanne Madsen (p. 63) addresses how to strengthen your relationship with internal stakeholders who have become cynical and negative over the years. Marion Thomas and Sarah Walton (pp. 65-67) …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 27th April 2019 Project is the APM’s (Association for Project Managment) regular publication for its members. This spring’s issue carries a fascinating article by Ben Hargreaves, editor of Project, featuring Emma Dutton MBE. The article describes how she has founded a consultancy, the Applied Influence Group, to apply what she has learnt …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th February 2019 Here we are at the twelfth and last of the booklets that I have been working my way through in these blogs, and in my RiverRhee newsletters (see full list in the notes below.) Each booklet has provided me with some terrific insights, and ones that we have also …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th December 2018 What better topic to select from Daniel Goleman et al’s Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence, as we prepare for a new year, than booklet #5 on “Positive Outlook”?! What is positive outlook? According to the definition in the booklet, “Positive outlook” is about: Seeing the positive in people, situations …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 17th November, 2018 What is “Achievement Orientation”? The fourth primer in Daniel Goleman et al’s series on Emotional Intelligence is entitled “Achievement Orientation” – as summarised in this illustration. The authors highlight the difference between what individuals might have excelled at early on in their professional careers vs. what it might take …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th September 2018 Emotional self-awareness is at the root of emotional intelligence, and it is a skill. I am increasingly realising, as I work with managers and individual team members, that emotional self-awareness is a skill in which people have varying levels of proficiency. I’ve gone back to the very first of …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 5th September 2018 Booklet number 7 in Daniel Goleman et al’s “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence” is entitled ‘Organizational Awareness”. As with the previous booklets that I have documented: 2: Emotional Self-Control 3: Adaptability 8: Influence 9: Coaching and Mentoring 10: Conflict Management 11: Teamwork I have found it helpful to summarise …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 1st July 2018 I’m picking my way, as the mood takes me, through Daniel Goleman et al’s twelve “Building Blocks of Emotional Intelligence”. My latest read is “2. Emotional Self-Control”. Each of these little booklets (or primers) has little nuggets of insights which I frequently find helpful for myself, as well as …
