Emotional Fitness Coaching: How to Develop a Positive and Productive Workplace for Leaders, Managers and Coaches

by Warren Redman

Overview

Emotional Fitness Coaching is the practical approach to applying the principles of emotional intelligence to the workplace to create a healthy, positive and creative environment in every situation. Based on thirty years experience in the field, it offers a toolkit for people to be better managers, leaders and professionals while also feeling more at ease with the interpersonal skills vital to any business relationships. Using a storytelling approach it covers a range of techniques including Power Listening, Learning from Experience, the power of Group Dialogue, Creating Balance and Emotional Fitness Storytelling. Each tool is described and examples given of how each could be used in various work circumstances. Exercises throughout the text provide the opportunity for the reader to apply the tools directly to their own context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749465575
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	06/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Warren Redman is founder and President of the Emotional Fitness Institute. He has trained and coached high profile professionals and leaders for nearly thirty years. Having developed Emotional Fitness coaching and written 16 books he now trains coaches in this approach through the E-Fit Institute.
Warren Redman is a counsellor, mentor and personal development trainer. He has worked with a wide range of organisations in the UK and Canada and now directs the Centre for Inner Balancing in Calgary, Canada, where he has lived for the past five years. He is a prolific writer with fiction as well as professional non-fiction to his credit.

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Draft table of Contents

1 Why Emotional Fitness brings success.

An overview of working practices in different contexts and how they support or hinder the well-being of individuals, together with the impact on those individuals, the teams and the organizations.


2 Power Listening. If you want to be a great communicator, listen up.

Brief background to some of the theories about what motivates and inspires people to be the best they can be, what makes a great communicator and how people feel empowered.
Why and how Power Listening was developed and what's different about it.


3 Learning is Earning. How Learning from Experience brings wealth to everyone.

Some background to adult learning and why most training doesn't work.
The penalties of not learning from experience. The working norm.
The excuses for not learning.
Let's make it easy to learn, starting with what happened today.
Developing an index of experience - an exercise.
The Learning from Experience model.
The five stages of Learning from Experience
How Learning from Experience made huge differences to staff turnover and saved millions in one organization.
How it brought new confidence and motivation to individuals.
Learning from Experience exercises for the reader.

4 Treasure Seeking. Tap the talent in your team at every meeting.

Take a look at the team. What do you know about the talent that exists? How much of it do you see?
The Meetings, Bloody Meetings syndrome.
"We tried teamwork once. It didn't work." How to stamp out any possibility of creative talent emerging.
A new look at teamwork and at meetings - introducing the Group Dialogue.
Group Dialogue exercises for the reader.


5 The Energy Equation. Using the Workscale to transform negative into positive.

How emotional energy has an impact on the work environment. Examples from the field.
Satisfactions and frustrations - the background and source of the development of the Workscale.
Using the Workscale as an Emotional Fitness coaching tool with individuals and teams.
Combining Workscale, Power Listening and Group Dialogue.
Workscale exercises for the reader.


6 Inside Story. How our emotions shape our image of reality.

The experience of Emotional Fitness Storytelling.
Examples of Storytelling in the workplace.
Connecting Learning from Experience and Storytelling.
Storytelling exercises for the reader.


7 The Emotional Fitness Coach. The self-learning guide for leaders and managers.

Q&A section to take account of different contexts and circumstances.
Step by step guide for managers contemplating taking on the role of an E-Fit coach and facilitator.
Pitfalls and objections and how to overcome them.
Support and resources for coaches.
Examples and case studies.
Exercises and feedback for the reader.


8 Actions Speak Louder. Now you know; what do you do?

A practical primer on setting up and maintaining an E-Fit programme.
Preparation.
Starting out.
Establishing agreements.
First sessions.
Evaluation and feedback.
Integrating coaching into normal management practices.
Measuring the impact of Emotional Fitness interventions

9 Spreading the Emotional Fitness Bug.

Don't keep it to yourself - the value of sharing the benefits.
Developing a wider vision.
Talking and writing about Emotional Fitness

Table of Contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
  • Chapter - 01: Why Emotional Fitness brings success;
  • Chapter - 02: Power Listening;
  • Chapter - 03: Learning is earning;
  • Chapter - 04: Treasure seeking;
  • Chapter - 05: The energy equation;
  • Chapter - 06: Inside story;
  • Chapter - 07: The E-Fitness coach;
  • Chapter - 08: Actions speak louder;
  • Chapter - 09: Spreading the E-Fitness bug

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"...[A]n accessible and engaging read that will help any leader, and aspiring leader, get a handle on some of the 'soft skill' competencies critical to their success." -Steve Mitten, Former President of International Coach Federation

"Warren has written a book that not only continues to explore the concept of emotional intelligence, but also highlights an enormous problem experienced across the board today in both professional and personal life – stress." —Times and Transcript, Moncton, New Brunswick

Editorial Reviews

"Emotional Fitness Coaching is an accessible and engaging read that will help any leader, and aspiring leader, get a handle on some of the "soft skill"competencies critical to their success"

Steve Mitten CPCC, MCC, Former President of International Coach Federation, Founder of acoach4u.com and ICF 'Coach of th - Steve Mitten CPCC

"[A]n accessible and engaging read that will help any leader, and aspiring leader, get a handle on some of the 'soft skill' competencies critical to their success." —Steve Mitten, Former President of International Coach Federation

"Warren has written a book that not only continues to explore the concept of emotional intelligence, but also highlights an enormous problem experienced across the board today in both professional and personal life – stress." —Times and Transcript, Moncton, New Brunswick

From the Publisher