Practical Action Plan for Everyday Life

The Six Seconds EQ model focuses on the development of practical action plans for everyday life. Based on three pursuits, Know, Choose, and Give Yourself (KCG), the model contains 8 EQ competencies that can be cultivated to enhance self-awareness, decision-making, and connection. The Six Seconds’ Emotional Intelligence (SEI) assessment measures these pursuits and competencies and is debriefed with the client by a certified coach. The powerful insights that emerge drive the Six Seconds’ Engage, Activate, and Reflect Change MAP that coaches and clients use to facilitate the emotional transformations that help people move forward. The result is a rewarding experience for the client and the coach.

Urgent: Tools for Working with Emotions

Survey respondents identified a number of different techniques when asked, “What are the most powerful methods for coaching?” Client focus, active listening, and working with emotions were among the priorities. Emerging and professional coaches, as defined by training hours, had somewhat varied perspectives, as they did when asked about obstacles to progress, the importance of EQ, and coaches’ greatest development needs. To see the full responses, please request the original article with the button below. The full article also details the EQ-oriented questions that coaches can use to create insight into the power of feelings, as well as how to do a Validate, Explore, and Transform exercise.

Additional questions and exercises on empowering relationships for change, using the KCG pursuits to create alternative pathways, and developing a coaching vision can be found in the full article. Sixty-two percent of survey responding coaches reported using some form of assessment, with 32% employing an EQ-based tool. As the authors of the article note, incorporating the normed SEI results into the coaching process “adds an objective component to the relational, emergent dialogue” (Stillman et al., 2017, p. 10).

The bottom line is that coaching with EQ creates meaning and possibility, infusing the process with self-awareness, meaningful decisions. and informed goal setting.