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What I Learned From Theory of Constructed Emotions

A Research Paper By Jennifer Topinka
Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES

In my coaching evaluation (observed coaching), I received feedback that I missed opportunities to explore the client’s emotions despite asking “how are you feeling?”. In this research paper, I set out to study emotions so that I could be more fluent and articulate while addressing emotions, feelings, and thoughts – both as a client and a coach. This idea led me to an unexpected journey to a new theory on emotions, specifically the “constructed emotion” view. I’ve based my research paper on almost all of my learning from How Emotions are Made, by Lisa Feldman Barrett.

Rigidity vs. Agility

A Coaching Power Tool By Jennifer Topinka
Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES

Rigidity is a mindset where we are grasping and attached to a certain idea. Rigidity is the lack of seeing possibility, options, and gray space. Agility is about seeing a range of possibilities, holding multiple perspectives, and accepting “gray space.” An agile mindset is flexible, willing to change, and stretch. In coaching, clients can arrive at a coaching session “stuck” in a rigid mindset or perspective. How a coach can contribute to transforming rigidity vs. agility?

SHIFT Coach’s Gift to Their Client

A Coaching Model By Jennifer Topinka
Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES

The SHIFT coaching model is a framework to support the client in transforming their mindset, perspectives, and thoughts. The model emphasizes the process of facilitating and identifying changes, enabling customers to break through their current stories and beliefs and move towards the results they want. The importance of shifts is reflected in the new ICF competencies that focus on the transformation of thought, facilitating growth, and evoking awareness.

Human Energy

A Research Paper By Goran Gakidev
Leadership Coach, MACEDONIA

The topic of this short article is Energy. Think about it, energy can be found everywhere, and its impact is real. The universe and everything in it is made up of atoms, and the atomic part is made up of energy. Thus, we should not be alarmed to learn that the form or shape of energy we transmit, and encounter, shapes our lives on multiple levels. We have the rights as much as we have a responsibility to discover as much as we can about human energy transmission and how it may be exploited for the better good.

Superficial vs. Granular

A Coaching Power Tool By Goran Gakidev
Leadership Coach, MACEDONIA

I believe that 95% of the performers did not put a lot of energy into the smallest details like the heroes and masters, nor did they fine-tune the smallest finishes. For most people, the truth is that it’s all about the path of least resistance. Getting what they need to get done fast and just sneaking by. This is where their superficial approach to general things and business applications comes into the picture. Whereas, the minority of exceptional creative achievers operate under a completely different philosophy. They apply the mentality of Granularity instead of the Superficiality, bringing it on instead of mailing it. Using the Superficial vs. Granular of this tool, we hope to achieve higher performance by paying attention to details and creating a more efficient environment.

EVUCA – Supporting Individuals to Find Their Ways

A Coaching Model By Goran Gakidev
Leadership Coach, MACEDONIA

Because I am a leader, you can also be called an executive coach. My most recent job is to help individuals and groups in the organization expand/deepen their awareness. This will motivate them to step out of the compliance zone, and the only way to do so is to be open to the opportunities and challenges that come. There are a lot of questions coming from my coaching clients such as: am I ready for that role or for that change. Coming from such questions and also the experience in the coaching space, the coaching model of EVUCA is helping or supporting everyone to find their own ways of dealing with the situation that they are in. And this idea is what I mean with EVUCA

Limiting Beliefs of Young Female Leaders and How to Overcome Them

A Research Paper By Debora Hofmann
Leadership Coach, GERMANY

As a coach, I am focusing my work on young female leaders. They often work in organizations and systems that are constantly changing and evolving. Although young women today have more opportunities than they did decades ago, they still face obstacles in the system that affect their work. At the same time, most of these young leaders often struggle with limiting beliefs about themselves and the opportunities they can see with their own eyes.

Storytelling Approach – What Coaching Looks Like When We See It Through the Lens of Storytelling

A Coaching Model By Debora Hofmann
Leadership Coach, GERMANY

The idea of “storytelling with our lives” became important for me for other reasons: Through the years that I studied sociology, I got deeply used to thinking in systems and seeing anyone as a carrier of different roles in different plays that need to be performed. Internal and internal role conflicts are my daily troubles. My head is constantly dissecting systems and conflicts around me. Using the storytelling approach I can let go of purely analytical thinking and start to focus on the future. What is supposed to be happening here? Where is all this meant to be going?

Empowered vs. Limited

A Coaching Power Tool By Debora Hofmann
Leadership Coach, GERMANY

In Coaching, clients are seen as resourceful and capable and that they don’t need someone else to empower them. They need to do this for themselves. Our job as coaches is to support them in this process. If they do feel limited and unable to control their lives, which is reflected in their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, they can change this view. They can stand up and give themselves the authority to do something. In this article, Empowered vs. Limited, supporting aspiring female leaders to find a more empowering perspective for their current situation is only the first step. As I am coaching through the lens of storytelling, we are working on their leadership story here.

Diversity, Glass Ceiling, and Women Empowerment

A Research Paper By Julie I Bockarie
Leadership Coach, UNITED STATES

Much has been written about the importance of gender equality and diversity in the workplace, but there are still gender gaps that arise in various ways. Diversity, Glass Ceiling, and Women Empowerment article aims to address one aspect of the diversity challenge, the glass ceiling syndrome, which affects women in particular, and how coaches can play a role in trying to break it.

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